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Noisy server!

Produced and Directed by Creative Concern,
Director of Photography James Henry,
Editor Monkey Tennis
Music by Working for a Nuclear Free City [supplied by Woodwork music]

My involvement: data recovery specialist!

Dodgy equipment on hire was a possible cause of a near data-loss.

The editor on the job felt it was appropriate that be given a souvenir.

The array controller failed spectacularly, storing yesterday’s data on one drive and today’s data on the other. A USB/SATA caddy was hacked apart to do some emergency data recovery of 190Gb of film footage, the only copy after a very expensive few days of shooting.

The data wrangler on the job should have ensured that footage was in two places before wiping the on-camera storage. Thankfully in this instance it was possible to recover the data as the filesystems were intact.