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trashtrucktoot t1_j413vov wrote

What's the backup policy? Daily, monthly, annual. Backups are kept offline and tested twice a year right?

"Luke, look to the backups."

There's probably a Disaster Revovery policy for these digital assets. May take a while to recovery but hopefully this can be fixed.

... please excuse me now, going to check my nightly backups.

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cjrecordvt t1_j426yid wrote

What's that old adage, "If you haven't crash-tested your backups, you have no backups"?

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museum-mama t1_j41tm3c wrote

Standard disaster procedure is two or three backups with one being kept off site.

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cpujockey t1_j4g3s5w wrote

Yeah most businesses are too fucking cheap to maintain their disk backup let alone an off-site one.

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headgasketidiot t1_j41u5op wrote

It's been down since December 26th. They clearly don't have backups, or a disaster recovery plan, or anything. I bet they don't even have an in house software engineering team.

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OneHelluvaUsername t1_j46o88s wrote

Town clerks print an index of grantees/grantors with the book and page where the deed/mortgage/etc. can be found.

I know the Town Clerk in Manchester used the one day the website came back up to get those indexes printed. But a lot of Town Clerks are part time and grossly understaffed so not all clerks could pull off what Anita did for Manchester.

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trashtrucktoot t1_j46rl8i wrote

Trust me, I know some Town Clerk people who are doing AMAZING work holding things together with limited resources. The gravity (liability) of hosting important property records as a service is something the provider should understand. I don't expect my Town Clerk to rotate backups. I hope the FBI and other Law Enforcement are helping to investigate. :/

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