Oh, now that you mention backups, that was a nightmare too. Thankfully, the production database was backed up daily on magnetic tape and stored offsite, but the

Oh, now that you mention backups, that was a nightmare too. Thankfully, the production database was backed up daily on magnetic tape and stored offsite, but the code was generally edited live on the server, and backups consisted of adding ".bak20190402" to the end of the file. Needless to say, losing code wasn't uncommon. This was for a 100+ year old company with millions of dollars in annual revenue that was owned by the government. So, yeah. 100% the IT director's fault, who'd been there since the early 90s.