[lb1lf]

My favourite in that regard is an anecdote shared by a customer; he said one of their techs had discovered (luckily in time) that the long-running automated backup script on a small, but important server wrote the backup volume to...

...RAM.

[hulahoof]

And here I've been wondering how could it get worse than writing to local storage ...

[csydas]

I can tell you since I work support for a backup product.

Lot of people think that naming a folder on a local drive "Disaster Recovery" counts as having an offsite Disaster Recovery copy of backups. The number of large corporations whose backups are in the hands of such people is frightening.