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The server was probably nothing more than a over glorified desktop. A diy server should at least have some type of RAID storage.  The same goes for work stations with critical projects.  It's not that hard now a days to make a whole system back-up and store them elsewhere (like a friends house).  It's also a good thing to have replacement hard-drives standing by. A

With all the cloud backup services available, there's no excuse for not having off-site backup.  I have both off-site backup, off-line backup, and my NAS with RAID and it's own separate backup drive.  My backup processes run automatically and just give me a status alert if anything goes wrong, or of course, good news if the backup goes with no errors.   My off-line backup prompts me every week to fire up an off-line USB drive for a complete system and data backup, then shut it down.  That's in the event of ransomware, they can't get to the power switch of that drive.

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