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Stuart · 05-04-2011, 12:42

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04...zodiac_island/

A US Cloud Storage provider is being sued by a Hawaiian TV company as they failed to provide a recoverable backup of several files that were deleted by an angry ex-employe.

The files amounted to 340 Gig of data, but consisted of an entire season of a children's TV show. The files were the result of 2 years work from hundreds of people, spread across several production companies and consisting sounds, video, storyboards and animations.

The employee was able to log into the servers one month after termination and delete the data.

Now, this begs a couple of questions about the procedures at Cyberlink (the Cloud Storage provider, not the DVD player manufacturer).

1) We were taught at college that when firing someone in a position such as this, you make sure that they are escorted from the building ASAP, and before they leave the building, any access to any computer systems they have is terminated. The Uni where I work has procedures for this, why didn't the company?

2) Why didn't a company that apparently offers itself as a good backup solution HAVE a good backup solution in place?

05-04-2011, 12:42	#1
Stuart - Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Somewhere Services: Virgin for TV and Internet, BT for phone Posts: 26,546	Why you shouldn't just trust your Cloud Storage provider to back up your data.. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04...zodiac_island/ A US Cloud Storage provider is being sued by a Hawaiian TV company as they failed to provide a recoverable backup of several files that were deleted by an angry ex-employe. The files amounted to 340 Gig of data, but consisted of an entire season of a children's TV show. The files were the result of 2 years work from hundreds of people, spread across several production companies and consisting sounds, video, storyboards and animations. The employee was able to log into the servers one month after termination and delete the data. Now, this begs a couple of questions about the procedures at Cyberlink (the Cloud Storage provider, not the DVD player manufacturer). 1) We were taught at college that when firing someone in a position such as this, you make sure that they are escorted from the building ASAP, and before they leave the building, any access to any computer systems they have is terminated. The Uni where I work has procedures for this, why didn't the company? 2) Why didn't a company that apparently offers itself as a good backup solution HAVE a good backup solution in place?