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Eugene

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3. IT people who believe in keeping good backups don't always have the power to set priorities.

Reply to OhZone (Reply #1)

Wed Jun 19, 2019, 10:05 PM

Jun 2019

Where I once worked, the boss wanted pinch pennies on replacing worn-out tapes even after a data loss disaster. At another site, managers convinced themselves that they didn't need a backup because that system wasn't mission critical — until the hard drive failed.

Redundancy can be a hard sell to key decision makers.

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Florida city pays $600,000 ransom to save computer records [View all] Eugene Jun 2019 OP

Can't these governments - OhZone Jun 2019 #1

It's so cheap and easy to archive data to the cloud nowadays htuttle Jun 2019 #2

IT people who believe in keeping good backups don't always have the power to set priorities. Eugene Jun 2019 #3

Regular data backups are essential Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2019 #4