Why Do Companies Backup So Infrequently? 403
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."
Wouldn't have happened if you used vi (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Don't have the bandwidth for a cloud backup (Score:4, Funny)
Oh shush, everyone knows that the Cloud will cure all that ails you! Storage, backup, canker sores? The CLOUD!
Re:Computers are too reliable (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. ;)
Re:Slashdot (Score:2, Funny)
Old stuff that's interesting just gets backed up in the cloud. Less interesting stuff gets reposted to see if it's more interesting this time around (if it is, then it goes into the cloud, if not, then rinse and repeat).