My reading is: "The agency would surely be panicking more than this if they didn't have an offline backup".

"Offline backup", as in "thousands of shelves full of dusty binders spread across offices all over the country"?

Yup. Everyone’s job safe for the next few years!

	▲	rob74 21 hours ago \| parent [-]
		"And to think that we just finished digitizing all those paper files five years ago! Oh well, back to square one..."