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Old 03-19-2017, 04:11 PM   #50
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If you haven't tested restoring from your backup, you haven't got a backup

Final word on backups. A couple of maxims I've learned from my day job as a software developer:

If you haven't tested restoring from your backup, you haven't got a backup.
That comment brought back horrible memories. At my employer several years agon, when the backup system was switched to an LTO tape library with a new backup software package, the software company rep came in and set it up. All looked fine for about 6 months until we needed to recover a file. At that time, we discovered that the software was set to test mode so it went through all the steps of the backup until it came to actually writing to tape. We added doing a test file recovery to the steps before the tape set was couriered offsite. Though they are no longer using that system, the testing is still done.

On the missing file, we got lucky -- one of the devs had made a local copy to work on over the weekend (very contrary to corporate policy but in this case, they were willing to overlook the infraction).
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