Yeah, the only solution is to test your backups - either automatically or manually through failure. My small business uses a global network of cheap servers to

Yeah, the only solution is to test your backups - either automatically or manually through failure. My small business uses a global network of cheap servers to provide low latency to customers, so we have encountered significant lengthy failures of disk or network once every few months, but hey, we can be damn sure our backups and deploy scripts work because we're forced to restore them all too often.