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Always make backups. The little bit of time it takes will be a life saver if anything transpires unexpected. Oh and don't deploy on Fridays.
by artificial 8y ago
Always make backups. The little bit of time it takes will be a life saver if anything transpires unexpected. Oh and don't deploy on Fridays.
- peckrob 8y agoOn this same note, test your backups occasionally. Untested backups are worse than no backups.
- artificial 8y agoYou're spot on! Specifically I was referring to SQL data. Been bitten more times than I'd like to admit making a hasty change. Edit: refined.
- ci5er 8y agoDisaster recovery is hard. For startups, I finally learned to do this drill: Restore the entire business to fully operational status on clean computers from offsite backups in under 24 hours. You always hope you won't need it, but...
- dver 8y agoAdded corollary, Always test restore your backup, it's the best example of schrodinger's cat.
- jackthetab 8y agoI never liked the "be sure to make backups" and have "and be sure to test" as an afterthought (or "added corollary" in this case :-). Most ppl ignore the afterthought. I taught my students "You don't need a backup system. You need a _restore_ system." It changes the mindset from "Yes, we make backups every night" to "Yes, we can restore the database in x hours". I've seen way too many companies take the "we're good; we make backups" only to fail when trying to restore.