Summary

This chapter shows that the task of maintaining backups of valuable content need not be the exclusive domain of the IT staff. Giving users the responsibility for and means to back up their own content is an excellent idea from an organizational point of view as it is likely to save resources in both backup space and IT man-hours. IT usually has to back up everything that users produce because IT has no idea what’s important and what isn’t. If something goes wrong, the pressure is on IT to have preserved the right content and to be able to recover it. If users own these processes themselves, they will have a greater sense of control and ownership of the platform and a sense that they can create reassurances for themselves. This has the ...

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