[ghamrick]

In prehistoric times on an OS named CTOS, a distributed client/server OS, I was charged with making tape backups of user's local workstations, IVOLing (formatting) the disk, and restoring from tape. The contract specced that 2 tape backups were to be made, but of course in the interest of expediency, I only made one. And then I encountered the user's tape that wouldn't restore. I remember thinking that losing a user's data is the biggest crime a sysadmin can possibly commit, and it taught me a great lesson on the value of backups and their integrity. Fortunately, I swapped out tape drives like a mad man until one managed to restore the tape.