06-21-2019, 03:53 AM
mattkime wrote:
Ding ding ding.
I don't doubt that they looked at their backups only to discover that it had been present in the backups for some time.
That said, this shouldn't be a difficult problem to solve...if the will to solve it exists.
That was the part I don't get about both Baltimore and this one. They are complex systems, sure. But they aren't THAT complex. Email down for weeks? It takes 24H tops wipe and rebuild an Exchange server. A city that large should have support contracts and resources to fix the problem quickly. Plus, insurance is paying for it anyway. Sure, you might not have your data, but you should still be able to communicate. Ditto for a phone system. They are all virtual now with IP phones, rebuild it from scratch and start programming off of any phone lists or documentation you still have.
I worked for a 70 person marketing firm as a contractor that had their entire building, servers and everything wiped out in a fire on a Thursday night. They were up and running by Monday morning in a new location with brand new hardware for everything and all their data restored from their offsite backups. It cost a small fortune and dozens of people working 24 hour days for the entire weekend, but it was doable.
Backup drives were physically driven in from a different state. Servers and workstations were overnighted. We ate up the entire stock of an Apple Store of iMacs and MacBook Pros and had more overnighted. Was a fun time.