The following scenario happens so frequently that it's become one of those "war stories" that administrators like to trade. A vice president is looking for the documents that the staff used to put together the 1995 Annual Report. Nobody who worked on those documents kept a copy on disk. "Why don't we archive this stuff? It's important!" bellows the executive. The lucky administrator then gets the coveted job of explaining why a bunch of 6-year-old documents don't still reside on the network disk.

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