The 30,000 deleted emails

[paulthompson]

9. I have a timeline entry about that too

Follow the links. I don't see anything about them making back-ups. However, there's various reasons to believe at least one copy of Clinton's server survived.

Mid-August 2015: An employee at Platte River Networks, the company managing Clinton's private e-mail server from June 2013 onwards, expresses concerns of a cover-up in a private e-mail later found by Senate investigators. According to a spokesperson for Platte River, Clinton Executive Service Corp., the Clinton associated company that hired Platte River in June 2013, from the very start the company had a 30-day deletion policy. That means that any deleted e-mail on Clinton's server would be permanently deleted after 30 days. However, a mid-August 2015 e-mail from one unnamed Platte River employee to another suggests the implementation of this policy actually happened later. The e-mail reads, "Any chance you found an old email with their directive to cut the backup back in Oct-Feb. ... I know they had you cut it once in Oct-Nov, then again to 30day in Feb-ish." (Presumably this refers to October 2014 through February 2015.) The employee adds that such evidence would be "golden" and would clear Platte River of criticism. "Starting to think this whole thing really is covering up some shady shit. I just think if we have it in writing that they [Clinton Executive Service Corp.] told us to cut the backups, and we can go public saying we have had backups since day one, then we were told to trim to 30 days, it would make us look a WHOLE LOT better." The e-mail was sent shortly after it was publicly revealed that the FBI was looking into the security of Clinton's server. (Politico, 10/6/2015)
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/hillary-clinton-emails-server-214487
(McClatchy Newspapers, 10/6/2015)
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article37968711.html
It's not clear when the deletion policy was instituted or changed. But if the unnamed employee is correct, the change would have come just after Clinton was asked to hand over all her e-mails, which took place in October 2014.