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People only learn the value of backups when they have their first significant data loss. This is their time. Multiple copies, multiple locations.

• FuzzyDunlop 15y ago
  Definitely. It also becomes a nightmare you really don't want to lose quality development time to when you try and introduce a new workflow system mid- or late-project. We have this problem at work where our repos aren't set up right (basically everything going into subdirectories of one monolithic repo) and a side-effect is it's difficult for us to figure out a good backup and deployment system (so we do it by hand). It's an easy thing to sort out when just starting a new project, but when you're half way through it and the deadlines are coming close it's no longer a priority, just an annoyance you think you'll get around to later. Add to that the fact that you might not really consider burglary to be a plausible threat, and that they say they did do backups between computers, it seems they just accounted for the more real threats (hardware failure), thought that system worked well for them, and left it at that.