From: "Jeff Shultz" 

What the heck tape backup system were they using that they couldn't cut a
couple hundred $$ purchase order to buy some more???

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Jeff Shultz
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"Randall Parker"  wrote in message
news:MPG.1386061b5c71bf1e98a308{at}news.barkto.com...
> 14. I am aware of testimony and reports that six months of the Project X
> email resident on tape was overwritten and likely lost. In March or
> April 1998, faced with a lack of funding to purchase sufficient tapes
> to maintain the backup system, I authorized OA staff to recycle older
> backup tapes and use them again. It was our intent to have a rolling
> active archive of two years of tapes at all times. It was in that
> context that some of the Project X email tapes were overwritten. At the
> time that I ordered the reuse of old tapes, I was under the impression
> that the ARMS system was capturing all the email. Given my respect for
> the law and my basic professionalism, I would never have authorized the
> recycling of the tapes had I known that, in doing so, that the only
> remaining copies of any emails would have been lost as a result. The
> public record shows that Betty Lambuth believes that backup tapes from
> the time period of June through September 1997 were recycled and
> overwritten. If, in fact, these tapes were overwritten, I can only
> surmise that someone picked up tapes from the middle of the year instead
> of using ones dated prior to January 1997. Once the Project X problem
> became known, we stopped using the existing tapes and I authorized the
> purchase of new tapes. All available funds were used to purchase new
> tapes so that we could continue to backup the EOP systems.

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