The IRS Had a Contract With an Email Backup Company

Sounds like a job for Anonymous, try posting on their FB page as well.

a reply to: kruphix

Actually, lots of backup systems use tape for a wide range of reasons.

Bullsnip.

This is the DIGITAL AGE.

The information age.

The sheer amount of data processed by the IRS, and the rest of government can't be handled with analog equipment.

a reply to: neo96

lol you know realy know how backing data work

yes tape backup is still use ! check the new sony one www.sony.net...

Sony develops magnetic tape technology with the world's highest*1 areal recording density of 148 Gb/in2

try to beat 148gb/in2 !!!!

originally posted by: Dolby_X
a reply to: neo96

lol you know realy know how backing data work

yes tape backup is still use ! check the new sony one www.sony.net...

Sony develops magnetic tape technology with the world's highest*1 areal recording density of 148 Gb/in2

try to beat 148gb/in2 !!!!

Thank you for showing this.

It is unbelievable how unknowledgeable some people are on a topic and yet they continue to talk like they know what they are talking about.

Maybe with you also showing him that tape is still widely used for backups, he might get a clue.

Good work spreading the word everyone. I just got home from work a bit ago, a lot of my peeps have shared the Sonasoft info...plus I emailed it all to Hannity, FOX, and Ben Swann. I'll make some corporate calls to MSM first thing Monday Morning to follow up on the emails. I'll get it to Drudge tonight.

Des

a reply to: Dolby_X

By the US government that has virtually unlimited funds ?

Don't see it.

For the reason already stated.

a reply to: neo96

Self deleted dated data....sowwy...

Des

I would Not paid some one to keep info for six months?
and info Can be recovered from a dead drive.
send them to me!

why not ask the NSA for the records they keep?

a reply to: neo96


Neo96 well think what you want but tape backup in data center is still use ! and new tech is coming out each years

whatever you see it or not THEY ARE REAL
here some proof ;P (some link taken realy fast can provide over 100 others)

www.dell.com...
www-03.ibm.com...
cache-www.intel.com...

originally posted by: Destinyone
Good work spreading the word everyone. I just got home from work a bit ago, a lot of my peeps have shared the Sonasoft info...plus I emailed it all to Hannity, FOX, and Ben Swann. I'll make some corporate calls to MSM first thing Monday Morning to follow up on the emails. I'll get it to Drudge tonight.

Des

I'm not sure why you think they don't know about this already...it was already widely reported that they had them backing up their emails last week.

You don't hear anyone going crazy about it because Sonasoft did exactly what their contract asked them to do, back up emails for the past 6 months.

This is the craziness of a witch hunt...none of you understand the situation, none of you have the facts...and yet you are all willing to grab your pitchforks and storm Sonasoft's facebook page with ugly posts about them when they did exactly what they were contracted to do.

a reply to: Dolby_X

So if you have a 12.8 billion dollar budget.

Would you use tape?

www.irs.gov...

In FY 2011, the IRS collected $2.415 trillion in taxes, representing 92 percent of federal government receipts. The IRS processed more than 144.7 million individual returns during the 2011 filing season and issued almost 110 million refunds totaling $345 billion.

a reply to: kruphix

LOL Fail.

The IRS is claiming a hard drive crash on one computer, not a tape recorder crash.

Fail.

Sad.

a reply to: kruphix

Krumphix. I know it must upset you that we aren't buying the lies the IRS and associated gubment guys are telling us.

Too bad, we'll do what we want to do in spreading the word. I know you think Obama is infallible....but I don't.

You can join every thread and sing his praises, that is your right, and it's called Freedom of Speech.

But, Sweet Pea, if we don't make our voices heard, we'll lose our right to Freedom of Speech.

I don't know how you are so complacent about all the lies this administration has told. But I AM NOT!!!

So there...

Des

a reply to: neo96

Any experience in IT or any data center ? im not realy good in english so i'll let this guys explain it for me ! as to why use tape vs hdd ! blogs.computerworld.com...

like you say it's all driven by the final cost ! $$$$ even the biggest corp will use the cheaper one

a reply to: xuenchen

The IRS is claiming a hard drive crash on one computer, not a tape recorder crash.

Not just one computer but several computers/people who were ALL in communication with each other.

Yet no other 'losses'.

Yeah they epically failed.

Sometimes you just have to laugh. It feels better than crying or getting angry.

If Senators knew how hard it is to delete emails from servers and backups, they'd think twice before accepting this lame ass excuse.

Next time the IRS ask for a year's worth of your receipts, just tell them "well, you got away with telling Congress that you only had six months, so that's all I'm gonna give you".

The one statement Paul Ryan has said in the last ten years or so that I actually agree with "but as the IRS, you ask people to keep seven years worth of personal information, but you don't keep your info for more than six months"?

IRS should be able to produce seven years of ANYTHING.

a reply to: Destinyone

You do what you want, that is fine. I just think it is in bad taste to try to recruit people to go flood a company's facebook page when you really have no clue what is going on.

Like I said, the information about Sonasoft is at least one week old if not more...you haven't come upon the holy grail that you think you have that is going to crack this manufactured scandal open.

You can spend you time as you wish, if that includes buying into these fake scandals so you have something to complain about...be my guest. But when people point out that the information you are going on is blatantly false...at least have the integrity to give up that route.

Sonasoft did exactly what their contract said to do, back up six months worth of emails. Do you have evidence contrary to that? Or do you just not care and are so caught up in the witchhunt that you are willing to go on their facebook page and try to smear their name with false information???

a reply to: babybunnies

If Senators knew how hard it is to delete emails from servers and backups, they'd think twice before accepting this lame ass excuse.

Enlighten us...how hard is it to delete an email off of an email server?

Last time I checked, it was as easy as the user clicking "delete". But if you have other information regarding it, let's hear it.

originally posted by: neo96

Nobody uses tape anymore.

As a data recovery specialist - I can confidently tell you that EVERYONE uses tape, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. I have 16 and 7 tape robotic changers (SDLT2, 600GB per tape) that I use, and when I have a recovery job using that type of tape - I'm cycling dozens of batches of tapes through the machines.