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backups (programming.dev)
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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[–] 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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