[_joel]

> but backups were wiped as well

Then they're not offline backups, are they? I know what you mean but backing up to a network drive with R/W is not a backup, it's a copy.

[tryauuum]

They could have wiped through other means, e.g. through ipmi. Although I don't think that was the case.

More realistically, it probably boils down to money. I wonder what would be the cost of backing up everything to a competitor's cloud daily, e.g. one PB of data per day. I have no idea how much it even costs to have a 200 gigabit link to another data center.