Comment by yulaow
8 years ago
As a lot of companies I bet they HAVE backup, just never tested if the backup process works. It is absurdly common...
8 years ago
As a lot of companies I bet they HAVE backup, just never tested if the backup process works. It is absurdly common...
This is trivial tho'. Just setup a regular refresh of the dev env via the backup system. Sure it takes longer because you have to read the tapes back but it's worth it for the peace of mind, and it means that every dev knows how to get at the tapes if they need to.
Well yes, but there's a string of WTFs here, lots of 'trivial' stuff that wasn't done!
From my experience, if I do not test my backups they stop working in about 1 year. So if I do not test backups for over a year then my assumption is that I probably do not have working backups.
Most likely something like this. There is probably backup software running but it's either nothing but failed jobs or misconfigured so the backups aren't working correctly.
My favourite in that regard is an anecdote shared by a customer; he said one of their techs had discovered (luckily in time) that the long-running automated backup script on a small, but important server wrote the backup volume to...
...RAM.
And here I've been wondering how could it get worse than writing to local storage ...
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