Interesting stats. I know my former work colleague who was responsible for our CAD network said he could not sleep at night without knowing that a full tape backup had been completed by two different systems. Literally - this was before the internet was widespread and he had a terminal with a dial-up modem at home that he’d use to log into the backup sites to make sure the daily backup had been completed successfully. My bet is that modern day IT managers don’t take quite as much personal responsibility.
At least this story did not turn out to be an ad for PC-Matic ;-)
My bet is that modern day IT managers don’t take quite as much personal responsibility.
And not just the tapes.
Each key exec kept duplicate components of the company server.
Every couple of months a practice run rebuilding the system.
IIRC he said they lose one days data, and could be back in business.
I used to back up the hard drives nightly and drive them to a local bank to lock them in a safe deposit box.
This was in the early 90s.
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