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If the backup system wipes out data, can't you just restore the previous day's backup?
Or start storing your files in the cloud, like Google Drive?

git is all just files.  You could setup a git repo, and then store it in a shared google drive account.  That sounds like it'd solve most of your problems, since you could check the commit logs to see who's changing what in which files, so he could ask her why she broke the file she needs.

it was probably not actually backing up the data, or encrypting the backup with the wrong key. it's always a good thing to test backups regularly but i bet 99+% of IT departments never do. seen too often: bad backup tapes with error messages regularly ignored

i make backups to hard drives now days using rsync in reverse-increment mode. that's another script i need to rewrite into Python some day.

i had to access my backups tonight. i had mangled my ssh keys when setting up access to a new server and lost access to another server. trying all my keys failed so i was looking there assuming i had deleted one. turns out i was using the wrong user name and really had not lost access. two hours wasted but it could have been worse if i was using tapes as i would be restoring instead of just checking checksums.