[Hum-DIS] The Importance of Archiving - a must read for collectors of case stories

[Margaret Pember]

Dr Margaret Pember
Undergraduate Course Co-ordinator
Information Studies
Curtin University of Technology
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-----Original Message-----
From: bechamwood at ourbrisbane.com [mailto:bechamwood at ourbrisbane.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, 21 March 2007 12:40 PM
To: RMAA_list
Subject: [rmaa_list] The Importance of Archiving - a must read for
collectors of case stories

"Imagine you're reformatting a hard drive so you can do a clean install
but then realize that you have also reformatted the back up hard drive.
No problem. You reach for your back up tapes only to find out that the
information on the tapes is unreadable. Now imagine the information that
is lost was worth $38 billion. 

This scenario is apparently what happened in July to the Alaska
Department of Revenue.