How much data loss can you tolerate? That has been the question forever. It doesn't matter what platform I worked on, backup frequency and recovery options always boiled down to that one question. It makes it so much easier to determine backup and restore strategy when that question is answered.

Don't assume it will be none. There are systems/applications that can tolerate some data loss because the data can be re-entered or retrieved from some base document.

Getting yelled at has never been a concern for me. I always contact the user community and together we determine backup strategy. They sign off on it and are aware of any potential data loss and how to respond.

Tom