[SATLUG] savings e-mails

Sean Carolan scarolan at gmail.com
Wed Nov 28 10:29:07 CST 2007


> The costs are for time to try to recover the emails. 31.5 hours to find
> 4 days worth of emails (from an unspecified number of computers) at $15
> an hour. Then apparently a surcharge... It's not ridiculous. It's
> expensive to do data forensics.

It should not require an electron microscope and CSI agents to recover
some archived mail.  If the state were properly organized it would
simply be a matter of finding the backup tape and copying the data
onto a CD.  Even the White House can't seem to manage backups of it's
email communications.


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