On: Backup Your Data to Paper

Take tris with a grain of salt, but I’ve heard an urban legend about a Fortune 500 company:

Company uses magnetic tape backups that are stored in a bank vault

Something occurs down the line requesting the backups to be restored

Unable to restore backups from any of the tapes

Investigation performed, result:

IT person was taking the backups to the bank via subway, magnetized doors of the subway were constantly wiping the tapes

Conclusion: always test your backups regularly

>IT person was taking the backups to the bank via subway, magnetized doors of the subway were constantly wiping the tapes

That's probably bullshit you need a extreme strong magnet todo that.