Indeed; as I like to say, no one is really interested in backups, only restores. E.g. in the bad old days, not to mention to this day, I kept write enable ring

Indeed; as I like to say, no one is really interested in backups, only restores. E.g. in the bad old days, not to mention to this day, I kept write enable rings on mag tapes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write_protection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write_protection) unless and until I had to do a restore, in which case they got removed before putting them in the drive.