Thanks to Pete Lindstrom for the inspiration behind this comment on all those security experts wringing their hands about us 'losing the war' against the bad guys.
Sometimes you just have to use the tools available to you when dealing with an opponent. If that happens to be a gift for being annoying, then so be it. Even nagging can be bad ass if you do it right.
Sometimes backup doesn't mean copies of data, but it almost always means some kind of redundancy, like additional police officers. And sometimes that's not sufficient on it's own to get the job done.