I built a backup server to deal with the problems many face here.
Granted, my backup server is probably more likely to be stolen though.
Most customers also have a backup server in a remote location for disaster recovery.
At my job, I've got us running completely 100% virtualized aside from a couple of backup servers.
Anyone who allows external users to modify their backup server are obviously not security "experts"
"Switching control of Isabella over to the backup servers."
Then all applications (including the stalled alarm system) were automatically transferred to the backup server, which itself failed at 14:54.
Monitor the backup servers and the main computer simultaneously.
Because the setup was still new, we hadn't yet provisioned our offsite backup server for them.
The software has an option to create a private on-site backup server.