Crow told BBC News she was devastated when she learned her tapes had been destroyed, and expressed her shock at the lax backup procedures that had been put in place to protect them.
"I can't understand, first and foremost, how you could store anything in a vault that didn't have sprinklers," she said. "And secondly, I can't understand how you could make [back-up copies] and have them in the same vault. I mean, what's the point?"
For IT professionals, this incident highlights the importance of data protection's cardinal rule: always keep your backups separate to the original version. The simple reason for this is that, if disaster strikes, only one of them will be lost. A sensible and obvious safety precaution, one might think, but clearly one that's easy to overlook – after all, one of the world's biggest music conglomerates forgot to follow it when it came to protecting hundreds of thousands of priceless historical recordings.
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