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I have, on two occasions, discovered that my new place of employment had never tested the restore process and had broken daily backups. One of those companies
by Ensorceled 6y ago
I have, on two occasions, discovered that my new place of employment had never tested the restore process and had broken daily backups. One of those companies had a whole failover site ready to go in case of emergency and had never tested that the database replication was operating correctly.
- nix23 6y ago>I have, on two occasions, discovered that my new place of employment had never tested the restore process and had broken daily backups. Same same, it was with backupexec, once the daily backup-report said everything fine, so i made a restore on a vm (just to check) then a dry-run rsync with the prod Machine (Fileserver) and it wanted to transfer about 1TB of files, the last "real" backup was 2 year ago, turned out the backupexec-agent on the Fileserver was never updated and reported that the last backup was successful (the 2 yo that was).
- Ensorceled 6y agoI checked the backups and they were all something like 10Mb, I asked if that was a reasonable size and everybody freaked out. It's near the top of my CTO/VP first week checklist ... "what is our recovery strategy" along with "who are my team"
- nix23 6y ago+ Where is the coffeemaker and do we have any Oracle or Microsoft Products, and do we have all the licenses and CAL's :)