[Novalug] VA Health records held ransom

[The Doctor]

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Mackenzie Morgan wrote:

> Don't they have a backup on a different computer / hard drive / tape than the 
> original?

Maybe.  Maybe not.  I'm guessing not given the pickle they're in.

> Honestly, who makes a backup onto the same computer as the original?  That's 

Far too many shops do just this.  Enough that if you had a beer for
every outfit that did that, Bluto from _Animal House_ would die of
alcohol poisoning.

> not a backup! That's just wasting space on your hard drive with absolutely no 
> redundancy. OK yeah, they could have two hard drives on one machine, but if 

Try convincing some people that they still need backups just because
they have a RAID array with multiple spare drives.  It'd be easier to
put out the sun with a soda straw.

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