At our company we had a backup system in place - or, to be more precise, we _thought_ we did. Our server was configured to archive and sync all our critical data to an offsite storage system in a facility in another state. This would have been a proper and safe way to backup our data - had the data actually been saved in a readable format!!! We never had anything bad happen until a week ago, so we never really needed to restore from any of our backups. We just kept backing up and thought everything was dandy, until our server died right under our noses one fine morning and we needed to get back up and running STAT. So we quickly switched to our failsafe server, downloaded our latest backup archive from our out-of-state repository, and tried to unpack it and -- IT DIDN'T WORK!!!! The archive COULDN'T BE READ!!\r
We phoned Secure Data Recovery Services and told them this was an EMERGENCY - we needed to recover either the unreadable archive, or the data from our failed server, whichever, b
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