Imagine this if you will. Your employer tells you that you shall store all of your work on the network drive and that you are not allowed to backup that data to a CD or put the information on any type of external storage including your computer. Does this scenario make you shake your head in dismay. Well a friend of mine lived under those rules for 3 years until there was a disaster and the IT department destroyed the data for his department along with a faulty backup strategy.
When the head of the company demanded and explanation and got in my friends face over why they did not do individual backups he broke out the company policy paper he had signed not once but three times. The end result was the IT head was fired along with 4-5 of his cronies that had developed this ridiculous policy.
So if you are in the IT department you better look at the policies that you place upon your employees and think about the worst case scenario. We live in the age of Electronics and like people devices die. What would happen to you today if you had a fire in your house and destroyed your media. Banks have safety deposit boxes for a reason and I make a trip monthly to swap out a external hard-drive so in the case of a disaster at home I only will loose a months worth of data. Check out this Story. [Meryl.net]