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Why Do Companies Backup So Infrequently?

Orome1 writes "Businesses are on average backing up to tape once a month, with one alarming statistic showing 10 percent were only backing up to tape once per year, according to a survey by Vanson Bourne. Although cloud backup solutions are becoming more common, still the majority of companies will do their backups in-house. Sometimes they will have dedicated IT staff to run them, but usually it's done in-house because they have always done it like that, and they have confidence in their own security and safekeeping of data."

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  1. Wouldn't have happened if you used vi by dutchwhizzman · · Score: 5, Funny

    Mod me down for trolling all you want, he deserved the pun after not making backups for 15 years consecutively.

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  2. Re:Computers are too reliable by identity0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Then a few weeks ago another unit on the industrial was torched -- arson. I have finally pursuaded them ...

    Ahhh yes, the old "Nice data you have there, be a shame if something happened to it" trick.

    No need to explain, friend, we all know what happened there.

    I am curious if you did the deed yourself or contracted it out to a professional, though. ;)