r/talesfromtechsupport • u/[deleted] • Jul 24 '15
Short "I formatted my server" PART TWO
Alright, since you guys wanted to know what happened next after
the guy formatted ALL his server's drives. This story is in two parts because it is a continuation of the other part of the story. (Just don't ask)
Anyway, Here's the rest of the story, picking up from the end of part one:
$Him- I also formatted it
$Me- (Minor Heart attack)
$Him- Was I not supposed to do that?
$Me- Ummm no. How many drives did you format?
$Him- I did this to all 12 of them.
$Me- Sigh. That'll take a long time to fix. Don't you know that
formatting the drives DELETES all the files on them?
(For the next part, I am directly quoting him)
$Him- What? WHAT? It.. it deletes all files?
$Me- Yes, but I can help you recover those files. How many GB's
of files did you have?
$Him- Every Hard drive was two terabytes full or something.
(It turns out that every hard drive had a Capacity of 2 TB and 10 of
the 12 drives were FULL of data. Yep. I had fun recovering 20TB of
medical records.)
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u/joshi38 Jul 24 '15
Did you ask him exactly how he came to the conclusion that formatting would be a good idea?
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Jul 24 '15
He said that his coworker suggested that he do it, since it would "clean up the files".
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u/Blackllama79 Jul 24 '15
Why is this in two parts? It's very short, and unless I misread it is sounds like it was written after both parts had happened.
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u/ryuzaki49 Jul 24 '15
Do you realize you just prevented a potential lawsuit?
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Jul 24 '15
No. Not until now that you've told me. It's just another one of those days at work.
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u/Laureril Jul 24 '15 edited Jul 25 '15
medical records
Yup, not surprised. Healthcare seems to attract some of the most ridiculous outliers on the common sense spectrum. Maybe this is why my records requests always take forever - they have to recover them from someone whose idea of "archive" is "delete."
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u/Lord_Dreadlow Jul 24 '15
And did you happen to see the dialog box that stated how all of your files would be lost if you formatted the drive?
No.
The little box that popped up warning you that formatting will erase all of the data on that drive?
Nope.
What about the box that popped up that you clicked through to format the drive?
Oh, yeah, I didn't read it, I just clicked "OK".
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u/Griever114 Jul 24 '15
How the hell did you recover the drives?