The top ten IT management mistakes and how to avoid them

"I always tell my new IT managers that one of the most important aspects of their jobs is ensuring a reliable backup. Breakdowns in technology hardware are inevitable. The next best thing is fault tolerance, but I have even seen that fail. Don't think for a minute that if you have tapes and if everything looks OK in your system that everything is ok. Make sure you test backups regularly. Do test disasters and make sure you can recover."