Yeah, once upon a time at a startup, I wanted a file restored. We were small; the CEO was actually the one doing the backups (to QIC tape cartridges). Of cours

Yeah, once upon a time at a startup, I wanted a file restored. We were small; the CEO was actually the one doing the backups (to QIC tape cartridges). Of course, the recovery failed. In fact, the backups hadn't been working properly for months. I lost a few hours of work; if our file server had actually failed, not having a good backup could have literally been catastrophic. As in would the company have survived?! I recall an ancient quip, more or less: "if you don't test your backups, you don't have backups, you have dreams".