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A lot of people don't check their backups until they need to restore. A lot of people are incompetent.

• thewebguyd 5d ago
  A backup without a restore test isn't a backup at all
  • bonoboTP 5d ago
    You don't always have a copy of your hardware to restore onto. And the test's entire purpose is that you're not yet sure whether your restore will truly work. So you can't just run a backup and restore on your true prod system, because you're not sure it won't wreck it. So you need extra money to have a second system onto which you try to restore. If you don't have a lot of money, you will want to actually use your disks for storage, not to put them into a second testing server. Of course I'm not talking about very professional companies with super critical data. Just simpler smaller scale places or consumers.
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• andrewjf 5d ago
  Nobody wants backups as a feature. The feature is restore.