...She wanted to "own" the data and she claimed that you never knew who had access on the server. My wife went through several channels to try and force her to backup her laptop.

When the inevitable happened and the chemist's hard drive crashed the chemist and her supervisor screamed at my wife that she had to retrieve the valuable data. She could not and she forwarded the laptop to corporate IT who could not retrieve the data either.

The chemist demanded that the company send her old laptop to a friend who claimed he could retrieve it but corporate refused. They even sent the laptop offsite to their top vendor to try and retrieve that data and it failed. The chemist blamed my wife for the failure. All of the data was lost. Some had to rebuilt. Some was simply gone forever.

The chemist's supervisor then finally forced her to backup her laptop to the server.

A few years later the chemist left the company for a "better" job. My wife noticed some large data downloads from the server and realized that the chemist was downloading all her data to take with her to a competitor. She locked it down and called corporate. Lawyers got involved and it got really nasty. Both the chemist and her new employer got warnings about using our corporate data. She supposedly deleted all the stolen data but I do not believe it.

If I understand the process as it works now all data stored on corporate PCs is automatically backed up either nightly or in real time.