You're doing back-ups.... how?

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I work for an external IT company and some of our clients have their own IT guy onsite so we just handle things that are out of their realm of experience. We are also heavy into managed services. I have been helping out with monthly reviews of our managed clients and get to one of our customers with an internal IT.
When I come to the bit where we review their backups I start trying to look up how these are being done. I check the usual suspects... no veritas installed, not using our "backup server" solution, no scheduled NT backups. I dig deeper, trying to figure out how they are doing backups. I find an external hard drive and look around at the files...

Are you ready for this? I sure as hell wasn't.

Windows briefcases.

I kid you not, they're using windows briefcases on a USB drive for backups.