That is good advice, just make sure that it doesn't look like you are stealing your customers/clients data.
Excellent point! Any tips on how to avoid that, other than not taking the data home / copying to personal Dropbox-type things?
Excellent point! Any tips on how to avoid that, other than not taking the data home / copying to personal Dropbox-type things?
I would document the backup process and communicate it to my manager/client with a mail like "hey, I set up backups, they are stored at <server>, docs are in the wiki".
Other potential issues: causing unauthorized costs ("who stored 10TB on S3?") or privacy violations, e.g. when working with healtcare or payment data.
If it stored credit card data or other important stuff I'd take a look at what PCI compliance says you have to do for your backups and follow that.