Need a lot of storage and make sure the backup is readable (view the files content or try a restore).
The number one backup solutions nowadays is AWS S3, because it's easy-to-use unlimited storage.
How does a company handle backups without S3? Usually they don't. That would require employees to buy machines/SAN with tens of TB of storage and maintain them (weeks in ordering and travelling to the datacenter once in a while). It's too much hassle so nevermind.
The cloud eliminates the most common risks, that is ops + developers simply giving up on backups because there is nowhere to store them, and not being able to access them anyway.
Typical new sysadmin in large corp: The backup storage is full and backups have been failing since before I joined, should we do something about it?
Oh we raised tickets to request more disks. They will take months to arrive if they ever pass approvals.
The number one backup solutions nowadays is AWS S3, because it's easy-to-use unlimited storage.
How does a company handle backups without S3? Usually they don't. That would require employees to buy machines/SAN with tens of TB of storage and maintain them (weeks in ordering and travelling to the datacenter once in a while). It's too much hassle so nevermind.