Ottawa Valley SAGE

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Jan 7, 2009 - 1 minute read - Comments

Lack of backup shuts company down

For those who haven’t heard about Journalspace.com going the way of the dodo:

hothardware.com/News/Sabotage-and-Lack-of-Data-Backup-Sink-Company/

Lessons from this incident abound:

  • Choosing a sysadmin (what kind of sysadmin thinks that RAID = backup???)
  • Managing IT
  • Dealing with fired employees that have the keys to the kingdom