There's still not a way to recover from user errors like accidental deletion, which is a much more regular recovery activity where I work. And I don't know what he's talking about with "everything after that point is lost" -- if our mail stores went kaput, we'd still be able to queue mail for delivery when the stores come back online.
> To backup 25GB of data with synchronous replication a business may easily pay from $150 to $500+ in storage and maintenance costs- and that's per employee.<p>Per year? Per month? Dollar numbers for maintenance, without a time period, have no meaning.