[jacquesm]

"With the usual additional notes: unless you include an off-site, an off-line (or at least soft-offline) backup, and your backups get tested regularly enough, you don't have a backup system, you have aspirations & hopes!"

This should be posted in every place where people are involved with IT operations.

[Ensorceled]

It gets posted on HN EVERY SINGLE TIME. Usually the words "have backups" triggers multiple lectures on offsite backups and testing and multiple factors and ...

[dspillett]

I'll stop repeating myself when the world gets the damned hint!

(or stops complaining when something is lost because they didn't)

[elesiuta]

Even if/when the world does get the hint, there will still be https://xkcd.com/1053/ (although most people probably won't find this as exciting)

[formerly_proven]

Don't forget to not roll your own crypto!!!