Before leaving the subject of backing up your system, one last topic I'll discuss is testing the backups for validity. I ran into one customer who had been performing backups religiously for years. Verify your tapes. Verify that the data is being saved. And, finally, verify that you can pull the data off the tape in case you need to.
Disaster recovery is no joke.
It will be made even less funny when you find that your backup tapes contain zero data. Copyright 2001 INT Media Group, Incorporated All Rights Reserved.