[Novalug] VA Health records held ransom

[JRR]

That brings up the classic definition of  'near real-time' ;

"the guy who hangs the (nine-track) tapes wears sprint flats (running 
shoes)"
A. Nony Moose 1978.

The Doctor wrote:
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> Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
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>> Don't they have a backup on a different computer / hard drive / tape than the 
>> original?
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> Maybe.  Maybe not.  I'm guessing not given the pickle they're in.
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>> Honestly, who makes a backup onto the same computer as the original?  That's 
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> 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.
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>> 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 
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> 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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