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> One would only actually test the backups about twice a year just to be damn sure they are still resulting in restorable data. Nope. Nope. Nope. You test eve
by dbenhur 10y ago
> One would only actually test the backups about twice a year just to be damn sure they are still resulting in restorable data.
Nope. Nope. Nope.
You test every backup by automatically restoring from it in a sandbox and verifying its integrity and functionality in the restored state.
Backups are worthless unless verified for their intended use of recovering a functioning system.
- XorNot 10y agoYou're imagining an automated test system. But Gitlabs problem was the automated system was not communicating failures properly. And constant "this succeeded" messages don't scale well.