Stories from the Past

"We were faithfully swapping the backup tape each day and taking it off-site.  But we're not technical and we didn't realise the tape was too small.  When our server crashed we lost everything."
(Company 'A')

"When our system crashed, we found that the backup had not been working properly.  It took us months to recover the data using our paper records and nearly cost us our business."
(Company 'B')

"One of the staff took the backup tapes home every night but when we tried to recover some important files, we found that the tape had been affected by heat."
(Company 'C')

"We had a mirrored disk for backing up our data which was taken off-site each night.  This worked fine until we had a small fire next to the computer - we lost the lot!"
(Company 'D')

"We had been very lax in taking our backups; let's face it, it seems a lot of trouble for nothing.  Well I thought that until my computer crashed and lost all my future bookings, now I don't know who's booked in or when!"
(Company 'E')