Backups and Disaster Recovery    Backups are an incredibly
important aspect of a system administrator’s job. Without good
backups and a well planned backup policy and processes it is a
near certainty that sooner or later some critical data will be
irretrievably lost. In fact it is a matter of when your data
will be lost rather than if.  All companies today, regardless of
how large or small run on their data. Consider the financial and
business cost of losing all of the data you need to run your
business. I daresay there is not a business today ranging from
the smallest sole proprietorship to the largest global
corporation that could survive the loss of all of its data, or
even a large fraction of that data.  If your place of business
burns down, is inundated by a tsunami, destroyed by a tornado or
earthquake, how will your business survive? To assume that the
data can be recovered from your hard drive is to assure failure.
Your business records represent a huge asset to your company. To
have them destroyed wi