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At one of my employers, we did this with backups. Every now and then one of the team was asked to claim to have accidentally removed some files, asking the sysa
by danieldk 6y ago
At one of my employers, we did this with backups. Every now and then one of the team was asked to claim to have accidentally removed some files, asking the sysadmins to recover them. This was a regular sanity check that to confirm that incremental backups were working.
- klodolph 6y agoI was an engineer working on a storage system for backups. We encouraged our users to do restore tests, like randomly select a mailbox and restore it from backup into a test environment. The aphorism we used was “nobody needs a backup system, but everybody needs a restore system.”
- goatinaboat 6y agoAt one of my employers, we did this with backups. Every now and then one of the team was asked to claim to have accidentally removed some files, asking the sysadmins to recover them. This was a regular sanity check that to confirm that incremental backups were working. We have self-service backup restores for user files, so we get to spot check which users can be bothered to read the documentation on the wiki...
- eschneider 6y agoYeah, when I was an operator back in the 80s (9-track tape, FTW!) this was the policy. Every so often someone would request a file from last month/6 months ago/3 years ago, just to see if we could retrieve it.