The book “Backup and Recovery” was published on February 6, 2007, almost twenty years ago. I was a technical reviewer for an earlier version of this book, “Unix Backup and Recovery”, published on January 1, 1999. And these books were not the first to advocate the standard 3-2-1 model of backups. Curtis also has more modern books, if you like — such as “Modern Data Protection: Ensuring Recoverability of All Modern Workloads”, published in 2021.

If you’re not adequately backing up your data, then that is entirely on you. After thirty-plus years of this best practice guidance, there is no excuse for that kind of incompetence.

Apple makes this pretty easy with iCloud and Time Machine, but they are far from the only company trying to make this as easy as possible for their customers.