[Baylink]

The traditional response here is "dead trees don't crash".

Part of this can be a training issue.

But part of it is almost certainly that executives are used to hearing "well, that server crashed, and we don't have it backed up properly, so that email is lost and gone forever, oh my darling...", well... you get the idea.

It probably *is* a bad habit, but I can understand why they do it.

How can you earn the right to tell them they don't have to?

Well, ask yourself this question: if a murder case ends up turning on an email on your system, are you willing to go up for aiding and abetting if that email can't be produced in court?

If not, then you're probably not backing up assiduously enough.