This is a lesson on hyperbole. No one that I've seen so far is saying they should have a system that is "muilti-site, fault-tolerant, self-healing, webscale th

This is a lesson on hyperbole. No one that I've seen so far is saying they should have a system that is "muilti-site, fault-tolerant, self-healing, webscale that Google would be proud to have". They are saying run a simple backup and keep it literally anywhere else. I think we needlessly hyperbolize "do a backup once a month and keep it somewhere else" into some sort of NSA operation. Its backups. Its 2019. Its dead-easy and very affordable.