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submitted 8 months ago by to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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A social media post by @brankopetric00. "A backup isn't a backup until you have successfully restored from it. Until then, it's just a very expensive file upload called 'Schrödinger's Data'."
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[–] 37 points 8 months ago (2 children)

it's a fair argument but it's also bullshit if you're following the process and practices that you used when you tested your backup

lots of my job is backups and verification of the backups

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  • [–] 21 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Bold of you to assume people/companies test backups more than once.

    Case in point: I once got instructed to "enable EBS snapshots" for customer deployments to meet a new backup requirement. Disaster recovery was a completely different feature we only kind of got to a couple years later and afaik, remains manual to this day.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    that's fair and I agree but it's not a true maxim

    it's a good principal but I hear it a lot so it's a thing I get annoyed about because it's directed at me even though I have the receipts and proven record that it's not a fact

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