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Several years ago, I worked at a very small company where I did CAD-based design work, project management, and I was the on-site IT guy. It wasn’t a huge gig, tech-wise, but necessary. I wanted to be in a more IT-oriented role, but things were what they were.
In any case, the company's "enterprise" (aka “workgroup”) consisted of personal computers for users, and one — yes one — Gateway “server.” (I'm using that term loosely.) At that time I really had to focus on my PM and design work, so IT was largely secondary. Big mistake.
One day, I decided to re-spin my entire backup set. It was typically not very big...