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Ballast!
Just plonk a large file in the storage, make it relative to however much is normally used in the span of a work week or so. Then when shit hits the fan, delete the ballast and you'll suddenly have bought a week to "find" and implement a solution. You'll be hailed as a hero, rather than be the annoying doomer that just bothers people about technical stuff that's irrelevant to the here and now.
Or you could be fired because technically you're the one that caused the outage.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't!
The ultimate goal is having no downtime. Ballast gives you that result. The cost of downtime far larger than wasting extra space for ballast.
Except then they'll decide you fixed it, so nothing more needs to be done. I've seen this happen more than once.