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I'd guess the real number one mistake is insufficient paranoia about backups. I know lots of companies doing TDD but that have never done a full test restore f

I'd guess the real number one mistake is insufficient paranoia about backups. I know lots of companies doing TDD but that have never done a full test restore from their backups.

gaius 17y ago
The easiest way to do this is to make your backups the mechanism by which you refresh your Dev/QA environment from Production. It means your Ops team are very nearly doing a DR exercise every week.
- simonw 17y ago
  I'd never heard that advice before - sounds like a great idea.
- bodhi 17y ago
  It's a great idea, we were doing that at my old company a few years ago. It also means that you have fewer problems with migrations when pushing them out to production.