MySpace Lost all of my stuff...

Do you remember MySpace?  About once a year, something will come up that will remind me of all the good times I and my friends had with it.  We even had a page for our old band, "All Good Things".  When I would think about it and had some extra time to screw around at work, I'd go back and find my page.  Mind you, not everything had been preserved, but there were still some old posts, music files, and pictures.

Well, I just read today that the IT department at MySpace accidentally deleted about 10 years of data in a server migration.  How did they do that?  Were there not backups, or some sort of contingency plan, or both?  

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