[WarOnPrivacy]

    A mistaken command— /bin/rm -r -f * inputted by 
    one of the animators on the root folder and the movie started deleting

    Galyn Susman ... was working from home
    she had a full backup¹ on her home computer
    
    Galyn’s home computer ... in 1998 ... stored the data for the feature film
    ... [it] required 8 people ... to help carry her computer
    from her Volvo in the parking lot, to Pixar's studio

    ¹[her computer contained] the character database, 
    the foundational code and models for the characters...
    They still had to manually review and restore over 100,000 files

[luotuoshangdui]

It's amazing that they allowed working from home in 1998 and downloading all the company's assets to a home computer.

[WarOnPrivacy]

Yes except for the downloading part because it all traveled via physical media. She took it home with her.