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Untested backups don't exist either. There are several horror stories of people going to their offsite tape backups to restore some lost data only to find that
by alexkus 13y ago
Untested backups don't exist either.
There are several horror stories of people going to their offsite tape backups to restore some lost data only to find that their backups didn't work due to a malfunctioning tape drive.
Other stories about encrypted backups where the decryption key is lost (backup data is encrypted with a randomly chosen "session" key, session key is encrypted using a public key, no-one could find the appropriate private key to decrypt the session key.
etc...
- tehwalrus 13y agoI heard about a private school that backed up its fee database (MS Access) to a USB stick every night - in fact what the accountant was doing was backing up the desktop shortcut to the database. In the event of the failure that revealed the problem, they lost about 7 months worth of data (which was the time since the computer had last been connected to the network, and had synced via Active Directory, or whatever they call it.)