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Pointless write-up about linguistics. He says "restore" is the important thing, not the "backup". Well, duh.

• itgoon 17y ago
  Not really. That's actually one of my favorite "health check" questions: when was the last time you restored? Most places have very reliable backup procedures. Most of those have very poor restore procedures - I'd say about half fail when put to the test.
  • camccann 17y ago
    Running a restore is also a very effective way to discover that your backup procedure wasn't actually very reliable after all.
  • aw3c2 17y ago
    To me that is like saying "You can put money on your bank account but you should make sure you get it back". Of course you have to test your backups.
• michael_dorfman 17y ago
  If you think this post is about linguistics, you're missing the point Since the restore is the important thing, that's the one you have to test. And if you haven't tested restoring, your backup is (quite possibly) worthless.
• flogic 17y ago
  It's a well duh, but still most people fail to test restore. This may be the greatest thing about distributed version control. Every clone is a restore. A limited restore but still a restore.