Home Secretary under pressure over 400,000 lost police records

[Protec]

 

 

oops!

[3s-gtech]

It’s fine, they’ll have shadow copies.

 

Having actually used the PNC, at a time when it felt akin to using a VT100, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was run on a hope and a set of IBM Deskstar 75GXPs.

[sparkeh]

 

Having actually used the PNC, at a time when it felt akin to using a VT100, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was run on a hope and a set of IBM Deskstar 75GXPs.

You aren’t far wrong

[Andrew_C]

If you believe the Home Sec is under pressure over this, I've got some news for you.

[mikeprice]

The articles I have seen would look - from the point of vire of someone who 'knows how IT systems work' this would seem like a

 

'some dumb developer cocked up the parameters/SQL

 

so muggins here has to restore the tables/database from before the $wordforidiotwithoutfrogththreats ran their routine

 

depending on circumstances it could tkae a few hours

 

but SHOULD be trivial technically - but may take a while

 

comes down to

 

"testing is your friend"

[sparkeh]

but SHOULD be trivial technically - but may take a while

Should be, but if you’ve ever experienced PNC or Home Office IT you’re confidence in that statement might drop [emoji23]

[mikeprice]

Should be, but if you’ve ever experienced PNC or Home Office IT you’re confidence in that statement might drop [emoji23]

 

Well I would hope that backup and restore facilities for the databases would be nailed down

 

maybe not efficient or fast - but at least possible and documented (these public type things are normall good at the documentation - if nothing else!)

 

 

but then - maybe I'm being hopelessly optimistic again