I mean isn’t that one of the biggest jobs of being a systems manager? Isn’t that why it’s an important job? How do they seriously not have a functioning backup server that they can just pull online, losing maybe one or two days’ work
Where I worked we had daily, weekly, monthly and yearly backups. And we verified the data was readable and stored off site. You can always replace hardware but not the data.
You really have to be incredibly negligent, careless or devious to lose data.