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jr
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John
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How can the fire have wiped out all their data, surely any proper company has offsite backup.
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thats a shame really. will take a while to build it up back again! opportunity for some one to take up their place.
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I drew all their universal bushes up in CAD if it's any help
Fro
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quote:
Originally posted by ed
I drew all their universal bushes up in CAD if it's any help


Sell it back to them?
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good thing i've had all my bushes
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Well theres goes one plan for the zs
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quote:
Originally posted by John
How can the fire have wiped out all their data, surely any proper company has offsite backup.


Yup.

Sounds a bit dodgey to me.
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27th Nov 09 at 12:44   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
May not be dodgy, but possibly just stupidity to make that mistake
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quote:
Originally posted by strick206
May not be dodgy, but possibly just stupidity to make that mistake


It would be stupidity of the highest order if they had no backups of what basically is their biggest asset. Even more stupid if those back ups were in the same location as the original data.
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If I had a business I'd also have invested in some decent fire safes for day to day data and of course have off site storage. Sounds like it's gonna be a slow recovery if at all.
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quote:
Originally posted by Cosmo
quote:
Originally posted by strick206
May not be dodgy, but possibly just stupidity to make that mistake


It would be stupidity of the highest order if they had no backups of what basically is their biggest asset. Even more stupid if those back ups were in the same location as the original data.


Agreed.

If you're basically pissing all over the market with your product you would have some sort of safeguard to prevent something like that happening.
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27th Nov 09 at 13:56   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Got mine last week

Shame though sure something will get them back on track

Drives supercharged Tec with torque
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Sounds a bit dodgy to me.

With my business insurance, one of the conditions of it is that I have offsite backup for all my important data (I assume other business insurance policies are the same?).
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27th Nov 09 at 14:25   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
so where do powerflex say they have lost everything and didnt have offsite storage?

so far its word of mouth as far as i can see

i might post on other forums saying a couple of people was trapped in the building aswel


[Edited on 27-11-2009 by Shane]
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quote:
Originally posted by willay
good thing i've had all my bushes
Daimo B
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Brings a whole new meaning to burning rubber....
Ojc
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27th Nov 09 at 17:09   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Hmm.

I wonder if they will bother to start all over again?
Graham88
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Shame, guess other businesses are laughing.
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quote:
Originally posted by Cosmo
quote:
Originally posted by strick206
May not be dodgy, but possibly just stupidity to make that mistake


It would be stupidity of the highest order if they had no backups of what basically is their biggest asset. Even more stupid if those back ups were in the same location as the original data.



it's like rule 1, back up data. Rule 2 keep backed up data at different location to orignal data.

This seems a bit :/, Sorry to see it happen.
Mattb
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Lost everything??

ah well just use superpro bushes instead
CorsAsh
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Were Powerflex showing any signs of financial trouble?
Adam-D
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wonder if that makes my brand new set of arb bushes im selling worth more??

£50 inc postage, for now . . . .
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quote:
Originally posted by _Allan_
If I had a business I'd also have invested in some decent fire safes for day to day data and of course have off site storage. Sounds like it's gonna be a slow recovery if at all.


I was about to say that. If you don't have the sense to have off site back up, then a fire safe would make sense!
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[QUOTE=Powerflex]Thank you for your concerns.

Whilst Powerflex has suffered a major fire, the data, tools and some equipment are safe.

We have already moved key equipment and people into a new factory unit and the office is being set up at this moment.

We expect to be able to return to our rightful position as Europe ’s Number 1 High Performance Suspension bush supplier within a matter of a few weeks.

For more information join us on Facebook[/QUOTE]

http://www.pngclub.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1394791#post1394791

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