Recently, I came across a couple of very old articles regarding disaster recovery (DR) plans and their subsequent failings. Here's just a snippet from an InformationWeek article that ran way back in 2001: "I once decided to wipe a server clean -- only after ensuring that the administrator had a clean backup. Being thorough, I actually did a test restore of a file that was backed up the night before. So, I was good to go. I reformatted the server and after reconfiguring everything, restored the data -- no problems!!! But -- the user account that was driving the backup software was not an administrative account. . . ." *Read more...