I would like to take this moment to impart to all of you concerned about your business backups to make sure you are enabling your systems administrator with the

I would like to take this moment to impart to all of you concerned about your business backups to make sure you are enabling your systems administrator with the budget, tools, personnel, and backing from management he/she needs to get the job done. I have seen far too often one man miracle teams swimming in technical debt solving problems constantly but failing to have the time to play the political games needed to push for the kinds of changes they need. Obviously small operations setups are different, but for example, I've seen a ~250 person 6 branch business have 1 senior and 1 junior part time sysadmin, while his requests for a budget and personnel were constantly denied, and so he said his backup system worked but he knew it wasn't as good as he could make it. He eventually quit in frustration. He was a great sysadmin but didn't play enough politics and therefor he failed and his management failed him, all the while jeapordizing the business. Please don't do this to your sysadmin. CTOs and CIOs, please take a moment to ask your sysadmin what things they need they haven't been able to convince you of yet, and see if you can compromise or otherwise try to lend their arguments importance. In all but the leanest of SV web startup land, sysadmin are the backbone that keeps your company running. Don't neglect or forget them. If you do, one day that backup may fail, or a cryptovariant will hit the server, and although you will scapegoat your sysadmin, it will have truly been your fault.