Re: A decent backup strategy is very expensive.
Every place I worked at had a backup strategy, even though it cost time and money.
It has been useful a couple of times. A lightning strike, for instance. Failover to Veeam hot stand-by, order new kit, install ESXi, shovel the data back from Veeam, back up and running.
Another place, however, the management had a "secret" NAS, that not even the sys admins were allowed to back up. Management said they'd do it themselves, never got around to it, then the CIO got phished by ransomeware... Which was the only system affected? Yep, the NAS that he was supposed to have backed up, the systems that us plebs used and were backed up every night weren't affected.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
