I've worked as a contractor in a large bank leading a project to migrate from a plethora of backup systems into one newly built system. 30% of my time was spent

I've worked as a contractor in a large bank leading a project to migrate from a plethora of backup systems into one newly built system. 30% of my time was spent on filling "paperwork". Implementation plans, risk assessments, fail back plans and so on. There was a lot of this, but people in general had positive attitude (no big difference between contractors and employees) so I think of the time as an interesting experience rather than a negative. We too had around 30 OSes to deal with, but in itself it wasn't a problem. I suspect the problem in DB is not it's aging, disjointed IT infrastructure, but the culture.