We don't need backup anymore... LOL

The world turning in to an interesting place and the idea of having a backup is sometime over shadowed by the protection of the application itself.
I have often heard customers saying that they don’t need backup anymore. Even larger companies like banks have said that backup is unnecessary because their applications have their own ways of protecting their data.
About a month ago I received a call from a customer saying their Exchange consultants are telling the backup-team that there is no need to backup their new Exchange 2013 environment.
During the migration from the old environment the customer decided to upgrade their Anti-virus/Spam software for their mails aswell. Guess what happened next?

 BAM!!!

 The Anti-Virus software went in to each mailbox and deleted all attachments in all emails, because it thought it was a virus. This was a bug in the Anti-Virus software and shouldn’t have happened but it did.
The customer was lucky, they used IBM Spectrum Protect to backup all mailboxes anyway because it was included in to the Spectrum Protect SUR licensing.
But just think what might have happened if we hadn’t backed up the Exchange environment. The internal Exchange function couldn’t prevent this from happening, so the only way to protect the data was an offline copy in to a backup/snapshot.

So easy, and yet so unbelievable.

My tip in today’s blog, never trust an application company saying that backup is not needed anymore.

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