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submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Until the backups don’t work.

Untested backups can hold all sorts of surprises.

Sadly, testing backups is a lot of work and is rarely done.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Deja Dup has a nice feature in that every once in a while is spawns and verifies that the backup is retrievable

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Retrievable is a start, at least.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Sorry, I should have said verified. it reads through the backup and checks data integrity/checksums etc. so you know it can be retrieved properly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Testing a back isn't that hard, I typically test backups through digital ocean. They worked great.