For those times when you need backups of backups…
Admittedly it would be hard to keep synchronized backups of 700G of email, but the story below should turn some heads (perhaps side-to-side), regarding the human nature of being a sysadmin.
According to theRegister, PlusNet has deleted hundreds of gigabytes of its customers’ email during a storage update. The blunder also left about half its 140,000 customers unable to send and receive new email until this morning.
In case you’re wondering; the Jesus Factor is reserved for those times when something breaks and you say “Jesus…” which is a good reason not to put every service on one server (or storage medium).
It could be worse; they could be trying to explain why the server crashed after someone knocked over their Slurpee into it while visiting the Data Center.