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backups (programming.dev)

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[–] BillibusMaximus@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 days ago

Yep. At one place I worked, we did a big off-site disaster recovery exercise every year.

Most of the time it went fine, but there were multiple years where a restore didn't work due to an issue with one or more tapes. Either the data and/or indexes couldn't be read, or the tape physically failed during the restore.

Backups aren't backups unless they're tested.