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Yep. I once worked at a company that had backups of all the data. Until they needed a backup and discovered they were not readable. Months of work were gone.
by thdrdt 6y ago
Yep. I once worked at a company that had backups of all the data. Until they needed a backup and discovered they were not readable. Months of work were gone.
- ChrisMarshallNY 6y agoThis has happened to me. Long story. Incompetent (and dishonest) IT person. In fact, I was attacked for “harassing” the IT person. Nothing was done about it, until the HR DB got borked, and there was no backup. DR and backup are profoundly unpopular topics. They tend to be expensive, and difficult to test. They also presuppose a Very Bad Thing happening, which no one wants to think about. I have scars. I now have multiple layers of backup, and keep an eye on them. I can’t always test every aspect, and have to have faith in cloud providers, but I make sure that, even if we have a tornado, I would still be able to recover the important bits.
- ripvanwinkle 6y agothere's a joke in the data protection industry. Backups always work, it's the restores that have problems