An attorney in our town lost their office in a fire. All their
billing records, wills, briefs, etc were lost. They went out of
business after that.
I bid a job one time where some idiot at the company accused me
of padding the quote with a needless tape drive. He said, "we
never got the one we had to work in the last company I worked
for, I don't think its necessary". Needless to say, I didn't get
the work. Tape drives have been notorious for being flakey. I
use hard disk backup now, by either using pcanywhere across the
internet and using an automated script, or by using a USB
external hard disk and let them backup the server, and keep the
backup in their car.
I setup a satelite company and had them running like a top.
Backup, dial-up support, off site backups, quickbooks, etc. When
their home office found out, they asked me to bid on setting up
the whole company. I lost the bid, not on price, but because
someone heard of someone else, blah blah blah. Well these
geniuses didn't put in a backup, and after putting in the entire
warehouse inventory, they lost it all to a disk crash and had to
start all over. F*ckem, they should have used me:)
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