Schrödinger backup
AND something tested to restore successfully, otherwise it’s just unknown data that might or might not work.
(i.e. reinforcing your point, no disagreements)
Whitebrow@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
AND something tested to restore successfully, otherwise it’s just unknown data that might or might not work.
(i.e. reinforcing your point, no disagreements)
Schrödinger backup
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 hours ago
AKA Schrödinger’s Backup. Until you have successfully restored from a backup, it is just an amorphous blob of data that may or may not be valid.
I say this as someone who has had backups silently fail. For instance, just yesterday, I had a managed network switch generate an invalid config file for itself. I was making a change on the switch, and saved a backup of the existing settings before changing anything. That way I could easily reset the switch to default and push the old settings to it, if the changes I made broke things. Sure enough, the change I made broke something, so I performed a factory reset and went to upload that backup I had saved like 20 minutes prior… When I tried to restore settings after the factory reset, the switch couldn’t read the file that it had generated like 20 minutes earlier.
So I was stuck manually restoring the switch’s settings, and what should have been a quick 2 minute “hold the reset button and push the settings file once it has rebooted” job turned into a 45 minute long game of “find the difference between these two photos” for every single page in the settings.
Rolder@reddthat.com 8 hours ago
Always a fun time when technology decides to just fuck you over for no reason
daychilde@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
That’s always just one of the worst feelings in the world. This thing is supposed to work and be easy and… nope. Not there. It’s gone. Now you have work to do. heh
vandsjov@feddit.dk 7 hours ago
But the backup software verified the backup!