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Backup plans don't mean much unless you fully test a restoration process periodically though.
by lreeves 8y ago
Backup plans don't mean much unless you fully test a restoration process periodically though.
- penagwin 8y agoI'd be confident with periodically testing just little random parts. For me this is a "last resort backup", costs little to keep around, and god-forbid we ever need it. BUT that means we need to account for the case were we do need it! And if it's going to cost too much then there's no point in the backup anyway.
- ocdtrekkie 8y agoI would generally agree. First of all, you're going to test a lot of your restore processes with backups which are closer to home: You should make sure your VMs can all restore from your onsite (or just less icy) backups, for instance. As long as you're confident in that, the only thing you need to test with "ice cold" storage is that you can successfully restore a single VM from it, since you know all of your VMs can be restored.