Mystery surrounds loss of records, art on 9/11

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NEW YORK (AP) - Letters written by Helen Keller. Forty-thousand photographic negatives of John F. Kennedy taken by the president's personal cameraman. Sculptures by Alexander Calder and Auguste Rodin. The 1921 agreement that created the agency that built the World Trade Center.

Besides ending nearly 3,000 lives, destroying planes and reducing

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[fenris_lorsrai]

That the government agencies didn't send out a back up copy of the inventory is not too surprising. They're self insured. That the private entities and nonprofits didn't seems weird since they would have been asked to produce a rough inventory for insurance purposes.

I normally back up my business inventory every day: One on the store computer, one on a flash drive in my pocket, and later that evening I'll send updates to the website, so a third remote site. My inventory, as of today, has 27,765 entries, each with 39 fields. To the flashdrive, less than a minute to save. FTP to remote site, about 2-3 minutes depending on time of day I'm doing it.

If they'd computerized the catalog, daily backup shouldn't have been that hard. It could even have been set to do so automatically at end of day! Hopefully this will encourage all the agencies that are supposed to keep an inventory to actually DO that type of daily backup.

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