The Latest: DMV expects to resolve computer issue by Monday

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The Latest on computer problems at the California Department of Motor Vehicles (all times local):

5 p.m.

The California Department of Motor Vehicles says three offices that remain limited by a computer failure should be back to normal operations by Monday.

The new target is delayed after officials said they’d hoped to have them back by Friday.

DMV spokeswoman Jessica Gonzalez says it’s unclear what’s causing problems at those offices. She says technicians will work through the weekend to fix them if necessary.

Gonzalez says field offices in Brawley and Inglewood can process driver’s license matters but not vehicle registrations. A test centre in Fontana for commercial driver’s licenses remains offline.

A failure of multiple hard drives on Monday wiped out most functions at many DMV’s 188 offices for several days. At the peak of the outage, two-thirds of DMV offices were affected.

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11:30 a.m.

The number of stricken California Department of Motor Vehicles offices is down to three.

The DMV said Friday it expects to all offices to recover from a widespread computer outage by the end of the day.

Officials say field offices in Brawley and Inglewood can process driver’s license matters but not vehicle registrations. A test centre in Fontana for commercial driver’s licenses also still has problems.

A failure of multiple hard drives on Monday wiped out most functions at many DMV’s 188 offices for several days. At the peak of the outage, two-thirds of DMV offices were affected.

Computer experts tell The Associated Press that the DMV does not appear to have had a viable disaster recovery system in place.

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11 a.m.

The California Department of Motor Vehicles says all but five of its offices have returned to normal operations following a catastrophic computer failure this week.

The DMV said Friday that all offices are expected to return to recover by the end of the day.

Officials say field offices in Brawley, Concord and Inglewood can process driver’s license matters but not vehicle registrations. A test centre in Fontana for commercial driver’s licenses and an industry business centre in Winnetka also had lingering problems.

A failure of multiple hard drives on Monday wiped out most functions at two-thirds of the DMV’s 188 offices for several days.

DMV officials say customer data was not lost, and online functions remain available.