Backups Aren't Simple

I read a comment somewhere that stuck with me, that went something like this:

“There are two types of people: those who have suffered a catastrophic loss of data, and those who will.”

Trying to find the source for it for this blog, it turned out that every other sysadmin has his rehashed version of the quote, but the gist of it is the same everywhere. Data loss is something that happens more often than we’d hope, and most of us are woefully unprepared for when it hits us (which is almost always at the worst possible time).