Many years ago when I was in my first job, my manager come up to me and instruct me to make duplicates copy of my work in CDs and he would bring back a copy back to his home, I was thinking that he must have love my work so much that he wanted a copy in his home so he could hang up the CDs on walls and show to his guest that how lucky he was to have such a valuable employee like me ^_^

Many years later when I was visiting our company data center, a shot of thick smoke racing to the sky caught my eyes, and I was thinking some @#$% is doing open burning! That’s illegal!

Not before long I realize that the smoke was coming out from a data center cluster just next to our company’s data center, it’s ON FIRE! The fire was clearly visible from the doors and windows, and people are running out from the burning building. The fire engine response in about 10-15 minutes later, and some 15 more minutes after that the fire was brought down.

Me mingling with the data center technician that gather outside the burning building and over heard one talking to another:
A: “I just did a backup this morning…”
B: “Thank God, at lease we have our data in a safe place…”
A: “Uh… the backup server is right next to the one I’m backing up…”
B: “…..”

Well, I guess they don’t have a boss that appreciate their work like I had~ ; )

And for those of you who are having hard time to convince your manager to invest on off-site backup, maybe this is a good time to to send him this link ; )