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Yeah. And even if this cancellation was to save money, it’s not even an excuse.

What is hard and expansive are easy to restore backups.

Simple backups that may be a pain to restore but that are going to save your company from bankruptcy are only costing you some cheap storage and someone that more or less routinely checks that your data is safe somewhere.

I mean, of course I’m not advocating for flaky backups but even when you are cheap as fuck, you can afford a cron script running rsync and a couple hard disk drives.

Going fully yolo on this topic should not be even remotely acceptable in any business.



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