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I wonder what the version of the old "if you don't test restoring you don't have backups" rule is for these new services. Restoring costs money and laptop users
by fulafel 6y ago
I wonder what the version of the old "if you don't test restoring you don't have backups" rule is for these new services. Restoring costs money and laptop users don't have good ways of doing complete restores just for test as it's a lot of downtime.
Maybe it needs a kind of stochastic automated approach.. a program that finds sufficiently small (vs costs) sample of files on your computer (some old, some recently changed, etc) and tries restoring them and verifies.
- pfranz 6y ago> Restoring costs money and laptop users don't have good ways of doing complete restores just for test as it's a lot of downtime. At least for the standard Backblaze service you can download for free. For a USB drive you float the cost of the drive (they reimburse you when you return it)--maybe you pay shipping?
- tedivm 6y agoDownloading my full backup would use the entire month's quota on Comcast, forcing me to pay more money to my crappy ISP.
- pfranz 6y agoDownloading rarely makes sense for a full restore, but is perfect for smaller restores or tests. Even if it didn't blow away your quota they only keep the packaged restores around for 7 days and I've found that difficult to restore a large amount of data with home Internet. To restore it to a drive all you pay out of pocket is return shipping of the drive. The one time I had to use it I was slightly over the 30 days (I was waiting on a repair before I could restore the data) and it wasn't an issue.