As an IT Manager, one of your prime duties (if not the prime duty of your job) is to protect the data on your systems. If company data is lost, the cost in time, money, lost business, etc. could be huge.
I am guessing that your data is stored on hard drives (unless your company has incredibly deep pockets and you only save your data on solid-state drives). A simple fact of life is that hard drives break down over time. If the only copy of your data is on a hard drive that fails, you may well be out of luck.
So what do you do (as a good IT Manager)? Backup your files! Do this on a regular basis and make sure that your backups get stored off-site. (After all, a backup isn’t any good if your data and its backups all disappear in a fire or flood).
Like the old saying about the three most important things in real estate … the three most important things in data protection are: Backup … Backup … Backup
