That's all well and good, but as an industry our backup mechanisms are a horror show. You have to go way out of your way to back things up, and if you make a m

That's all well and good, but as an industry our backup mechanisms are a horror show. You have to go way out of your way to back things up, and if you make a mistake about what is getting backed up you are unlikely to find out until restoration fails. My sympathies lie with all the unlucky souls who are statistically all but guaranteed to experience data loss because it is so hard to do the right thing. Reminders which shunt people towards backup best practice are fine, but they are not a substitute for systems engineered to prevent data loss in the first place.