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Up to 30,000 missing emails sent by former Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner have been recovered by the IRS inspector general, five months after they were deemed lost forever.
The U.S. Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) informed congressional staffers from several committees on Friday that the emails were found among hundreds of “disaster recovery tapes” that were used to back up the IRS email system.
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In all, investigators from the inspector general’s office combed through 744 disaster recovery tapes. They are not finished looking.
There are 250 million emails ion (sic) the tapes that will be reviewed. Officials said it is likely they will find missing emails from other IRS officials who worked under Lerner and who said they suffered computer crashes.
I searched for the previous thread on this but searches for IRS returned no results.
I'm interested what those of you who know far more about this than I Re: server backups of any organizations email records have to say. I do find it odd that the first was all HD's were destroyed. I know better that servers take care of this task, not indiv. user's HDs. Second, that tape is still used. Third, did it really take this long? Tape is sequential though, so it might have.
While this can quickly get political given well... the current politik. I'm more interested in the technical side...of how any organizations emails, records, data flow, etc. are managed/archived/recorded in a digital format.
So IT guys/gals...chime in here and illuminate us.
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Up to 30,000 missing emails sent by former Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner have been recovered by the IRS inspector general, five months after they were deemed lost forever.
The U.S. Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) informed congressional staffers from several committees on Friday that the emails were found among hundreds of “disaster recovery tapes” that were used to back up the IRS email system.
.
.
.
In all, investigators from the inspector general’s office combed through 744 disaster recovery tapes. They are not finished looking.
There are 250 million emails ion (sic) the tapes that will be reviewed. Officials said it is likely they will find missing emails from other IRS officials who worked under Lerner and who said they suffered computer crashes.
I searched for the previous thread on this but searches for IRS returned no results.
I'm interested what those of you who know far more about this than I Re: server backups of any organizations email records have to say. I do find it odd that the first was all HD's were destroyed. I know better that servers take care of this task, not indiv. user's HDs. Second, that tape is still used. Third, did it really take this long? Tape is sequential though, so it might have.
While this can quickly get political given well... the current politik. I'm more interested in the technical side...of how any organizations emails, records, data flow, etc. are managed/archived/recorded in a digital format.
So IT guys/gals...chime in here and illuminate us.