The Paper Trail Saves the Day

Ghoulish Delight · 03-20-2007, 11:40 AM

Sigh. As someone in the data protection industry, and who specifically works with data on tape...TEST YOUR ABILITY TO RESTORE YOUR DATA, PEOPLE!

It's entirely anecdotal and guesstimating, but many people in the industry like to bandy about the stat that ~%50 of all backed up data will fail to recover properly because people aren't properly validating the backups. Whatever the actual number, it's definitely too high and it only takes once to cause massive issues.

I'd love to know what their backup solution looked like, who put it together, and who is on the hook and has a lot of 'splainin' to do.

03-20-2007, 11:40 AM	#2
Ghoulish Delight I Floop the Pig Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Alternative Swankstyle Posts: 19,348	Sigh. As someone in the data protection industry, and who specifically works with data on tape...TEST YOUR ABILITY TO RESTORE YOUR DATA, PEOPLE! It's entirely anecdotal and guesstimating, but many people in the industry like to bandy about the stat that ~%50 of all backed up data will fail to recover properly because people aren't properly validating the backups. Whatever the actual number, it's definitely too high and it only takes once to cause massive issues. I'd love to know what their backup solution looked like, who put it together, and who is on the hook and has a lot of 'splainin' to do. __________________ 'He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.' -TJ
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