[z3t4]

With the landscape constantly changing you could argue if we take too much weight on senior perception. For example: "Those 10GB of data would take up too much space, it's BIG DATA, we can't afford that!" ... Junior: We could use my laptop, it has 2 TB.

[PretzelPirate]

I don't think any competent senior engineer would say that backups are too expensive without looking at the actual cost first.

Your example doesn't work though - using someone's laptop is likely not secure, reliable, and definitely not appropriate for any compliant data. It really doesn't meet the actual requirements of a true backup.

My backups sit on disks that supports disaster recovery, are proven to be reliable, and meet all compliance requirements for the data we store.

[throwanem]

I think we may be using different definitions of "senior" here - to wit, the thread is about senior engineers, and you're talking about senior citizens.