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Originally Posted by bgalbrecht
It's not just enough to take a backup, you need to verify the backup after completion. I once worked at a company that was making scsi tape backups and the person who set it up didn't understand scsi terminators, and had never verified that the backups were good. When we needed to get something from backup, all of the tapes had issues.
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- can't count the number of times I've found that the recovery procedures were never or rarely tested - or even unknown, because whoever set up the procedures has left the firm.
Doing a backup is easy because you do it every day/week, recovery is hard because you don't do it often, and you're probably stressed.
I do 2 incremental daily backups to local media at shutdown, and incremental weekly backups to a couple of FTP servers. I use the GoodSynch program.