I hope it works out but if the school put itself in a position that a physical fire in a single building can wipe out its records with no recovery, I'd fire everyone.
Agreed, if so, completely inexusible. Even they're concerned about personal information security in a cloud/hosted situation, they could have taken advantage of the geo-diversity right on campus and put back-ups in another building. I thought the new engineering addition was too contain a sizeable data center type environment, is that not where K-State's Super Cluster resides, now?