> I have never encountered a business that does not require backups. Me neither. But unfortunately the most I've encountered don't either have truly full backu

> I have never encountered a business that does not require backups. Me neither. But unfortunately the most I've encountered don't either have truly full backups (missing stuff), actually working backup process (some issue with backup media, process, etc.) or any idea how to actually restore if something does happen. Almost no one does drills to restore backups to some test system. I can't talk about the other cases, but I can tell about one small startup I joined a long ago. The worst one. They did backups on a 3-disk RAID-5 server... with one disk broken and one with SMART warnings. Their backup process also failed to backup anything with too long path names, so in reality almost half of the data was actually missing! There was also some unicode issue that lost files with characters above 128 ASCII. My first days went to just actually ensuring their data is backed up...