Why I work in backups

I’m not a storage geek – storage to me is a means to an end, almost irrelevant to the final goal.

I’m passionate about backup though, because backup is about making people happy.

Backup is about recovery, you see.

Recovery is about making sure people can go home on time rather than re-entering lost data all night.

Recovery is about knowing someone can turn up for a flight they booked six weeks earlier and know the airline still knows they booked the ticket.

Recovery is about knowing someone’s pay deposit isn’t lost after a brief systems hiccup.

Recovery is about a student saving a 50,000 word thesis on a server and knowing it will still be there next morning.

Recovery is about being able to look at digital photos of a loved one ten years after they’re gone.

I have the best job in the world.

If you work in backup and recovery, so do you.