Nothing proves a backup like forcing yourself to simulate a recovery! I like to make one setting change, then make a backup, and then delete everything and try to rebuild it from scratch to see if I can do it and prove the setting change is still there
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satanmat@lemmy.world 4 months ago
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Yeah. It is kinda hard.
Backups. First and foremost.
Now once that is sorted, what if your DB gets corrupted. You test your backups
Learn how to verify and restore
It is a hassle. That’s why there is a constant back and forth between on prem and cloud in the enterprise
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 4 months ago
satanmat@lemmy.world 4 months ago
We do a quarterly test.
I have the DB guy make a change, I nuke it and ensure I can restore it.
For us. I don’t work for Veeam, while I don’t like their licensing. Veeam is pretty good
Hth
helenslunch@feddit.nl 4 months ago
I think “hard” is the wrong word. After all, it’s just a matter of mashing the right combination of buttons on your keyboard. It’s complicated…