Jude is NOT a moron

[itsborken]

Good forward thinking; nothing is as sobering as having to do bare metal restores for a DR test and finding out all the little things that were overlooked that go into a system before the tapes spin. Hopefully those AS/400s aren't as painful.

If he couldn't cost justify the $ for backup hardware/server (or pick a colo that offered it as an optional service), an alternate recovery site probably didn't cross his mind.

[mirumu]

Isn't it possible that the company hosting the servers could have promised him that they would be doing backups... and didn't? Or would that be his responsibility?

I had a hosting company promise they'd do regular backups only to find they didn't when their RAID array failed. Thankfully I didn't trust them and had my own backup anyway. Needless to say I am not a customer of that company any more. Funnily enough as I write this I'm in the middle of writing backup scripts for a work server.

[hYdrociTy]

So what (politically correct term) do you call someone that runs a

major website with great influence that has no hot failover capabilities and no backups?