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This reminds me of what happened to the financial services Cantor Fitzgerald after 9/11, just replacing a system with hundreds of lost employees:

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/19/magazine/the-secret-life-...

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I was at CF (at new offices, obviously) briefly a couple weeks after 9/11.

They had backups and were able to recover data and systems.

By the time I got there, they were somewhat functional.

The biggest problems were the lack of knowledgeable personnel, not lost data or systems.

Thanks for sharing, for some reason I think about this story a lot. It must have been such an emotionally difficult time for everyone involved in piecing back together their processes.

>Thanks for sharing, for some reason I think about this story a lot. It must have been such an emotionally difficult time for everyone involved in piecing back together their processes.

I was there as a consultant and didn't know anyone there when I went.

I won't provide any details out of respect for those fine people, but the grief was so thick, you could have cut it with a knife. As I said, I didn't know anyone who was there (or wasn't there) but after a day, I wanted to cry.

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