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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"I can just restore the backup"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You have backups? Novel concept.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

We set up Windows Task Scheduler to launch a powershell script without monitoring or error handling that copies stuff to D:, attached a USB hard drive and told the secretary to swap it regularly, 6 years ago...

so, Yes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Still better than 90% of folks.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nobody has backups until they successfully restore one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I love veeam surebackup, automated restore testing is great.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Never, ever trust the backup.