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Schrödinger's backup. Testing the backup works involves even more engineering and non creative work.
by navigate8310 1y ago
Schrödinger's backup. Testing the backup works involves even more engineering and non creative work.
- CaptainOfCoit 1y agoDepends. Even something basic like "Check if the produced artifact is a valid .zip/.tar.gz" can be enough in the beginning, probably would have prevented the issue I shared before. Then once you grow/need higher reliability, you can start adding more advanced checks, like it has the tables/data structures you expect and so on.
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- 6510 1y agoI had a funny where I somewhat regularly test an sql backup, then one day it didn't work, it worked the second time, the 3rd and the 4th. I have no idea why it didn't work. It turned into a permanent background process in the back of my head. The endless what-if loop.
- otterley 1y agoI’m not sure what your point is. Business continuity requires a disaster recovery plan that must be tested regularly. It might be considered slog work, but like taking out the garbage, it’s non negotiable and must be done.
- dessimus 1y ago"Great, first you wanted more money to buy compute and storage for dev and staging separate from production, and now you even more for 'testing backups'?!"