Foul file deletion

[Diver]

Fortran Rules

[threaded]

Anyways, getting back to the point: was there any kind of program with a backup utility on the machine? Many DOS programs made backups by changing the last letter of the filename. This sounds like a likely scenario: maybe finger trouble and they made the whole disk a backup, and then they kindly deleted everything to try and cover the first mistake?

[Bluebird]

First used Clipper in a Gvt dept - they have still got it !

[angusglover]

Either way you probably screwed up all forensics there so what exactly happened will probably never be established. This is just a reminder that undelete is not a substitution for a good backup strategy that should be regularly tested by restoring data into cloned machine to see if backups actually work.

Yep, how many times have you seen companies that religiously run backups.....but never actually test that the data can be restored???...

[Sysman]

Yep, how many times have you seen companies that religiously run backups.....but never actually test that the data can be restored???...

The WORN backup strategy.

Write Once, Read Never.

™®© Sysman.

[Diver]

Anyways, getting back to the point: was there any kind of program with a backup utility on the machine? Many DOS programs made backups by changing the last letter of the filename. This sounds like a likely scenario: maybe finger trouble and they made the whole disk a backup, and then they kindly deleted everything to try and cover the first mistake?

The accounts program was Pegasus (to run in Dos)
The Database I can't remember the name of off hand, but they were stand alone programs with separate Backup facilities.?

I was going to download the op system & prog files on to an ext hard drive to study at a later date, but they were worried that I might download confidential patient info!