They have safes. Maybe they thought they would be clever and avoid sending it to wherever on the official machines, by taking it elsewhere and using a disposable device.
Safes don't solve the problem of the site getting hit with a disaster. This is typical disaster recovery protocol. Disks are mirrored or use some sort of redundancy, backups are taken, backups are stored in a separate location. That's standard operating procedure, I think, from a non-infrastructure guy.
They have safes. Maybe they thought they would be clever and avoid sending it to wherever on the official machines, by taking it elsewhere and using a disposable device.
Safes don't solve the problem of the site getting hit with a disaster. This is typical disaster recovery protocol. Disks are mirrored or use some sort of redundancy, backups are taken, backups are stored in a separate location. That's standard operating procedure, I think, from a non-infrastructure guy.