Rise of the Machines™ 1 - Sussex University 0

The laws of backups stipulate that you will only find out the tape drive has been systematically scribbling random gibberish over the backup tapes when your file server eats the filesystem.

So guess what's happened to the Informatics file server here?

Yep, someone at the Lizard Alliance apparently hit the "scramble" button for Sussex, and got the Informatics file server to eat the disks. It seems that they've been planning this for a while, as the backups for last weekend are mysteriously corrupt.