Yeeeaaah you’re supposed to regularly test that you can actually restore your backups, because boy do a lot of companies only find out they can’t only after shit goes sideways and to their horror they then realize that they can’t restore some system’s backups because reasons.
Not sure I’ve worked in a company that did that, and frankly even when I was CTO in a startup we didn’t have automated backup tests – mostly because it was still early days and I just manually tested restoring our in-house service when a change was made that would warrant it. N + 1 other things to do besides automating backup tests so I deemed that Good Enough™.
Wait your suppose to do that? I mean, don’t get me wrong, that makes sense, but so far 0% of the companies I’ve worked for do that.
Yeeeaaah you’re supposed to regularly test that you can actually restore your backups, because boy do a lot of companies only find out they can’t only after shit goes sideways and to their horror they then realize that they can’t restore some system’s backups because reasons.
Not sure I’ve worked in a company that did that, and frankly even when I was CTO in a startup we didn’t have automated backup tests – mostly because it was still early days and I just manually tested restoring our in-house service when a change was made that would warrant it. N + 1 other things to do besides automating backup tests so I deemed that Good Enough™.