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Gut wrenching, for sure. To see your whole model explode, it's just not worth it. If you don't have a backup plan -- close your browser, stop surfing Y!Hacker,
by bprater 18y ago
Gut wrenching, for sure. To see your whole model explode, it's just not worth it.
If you don't have a backup plan -- close your browser, stop surfing Y!Hacker, and go write a shell script to dump your database and rsync to anywhere else on earth.
- eli 18y ago...and then do a test restore!
- jacquesm 18y agoamen to that! You should see the confused looks I get when doing technical due diligence somewhere and they get that question: "when did you last try to restore a backup ?" then once they get the point they want to leave the room asap...
- rarrrrrr 18y agoYES! This comment should be modded up to the top. We talk to a lot of customers about their backups every day. I'd say more than half of the backup failure stories we hear come from failing to adequately test that data can actually be restored. Some have been comically tragic. Like creating an offsite backup using encryption keys that are only archived as part of said backup... :(
- eli 18y agoA former colleague was attempting to replace a failed hard drive in a server. So he installed a fresh OS, put the tape in the drive, installed the backup software and watched as the backup software started to reformat the tape...
- timf 18y ago"creating an offsite backup using encryption keys that are only archived as part of said backup..." Ugh, that is awful.