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YES! 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 sto
by rarrrrrr 18y ago
YES! 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.