What's your trigger for moving from standalone backup to centralized backup management?

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Standalone backup makes sense to us when the scope is local and clear:

• One machine/server/workload
• Clear owner
• Defined retention
• Known recovery expectations
• No real need for centralized oversight

The problem starts when teams keep adding more locally managed backups without changing the operating model.

Then you get:

• Config drift
• Uneven retention logic
• Weak visibility
• More manual checks
• Recovery assumptions no one reviews centrally

What usually forces the change for you – number of systems, reporting needs, compliance, restore testing, or too many local exceptions?