It amazes me that the lack of backups is so common. I will be starting a new job soon, and after finding my desk, the first think I will do will be to find out their backup procedures & verify their backups. I'll run that little script above, find out if/when the backup files get written to tape etc etc ......

Accidents happen, servers crash, things break, corruption occurs, users want to restore data from odd-ball times ..... Sometimes a specific recovery is not possible, but someone in the organization needs to make sure that the basics are covered.