it's worse. you might be trying to restore from an untested backup and fail, wasting precious time.
five times.
Re:Data Loss at GitLab
by immigrantsheep on Thursday February 02, 2017 @12:00PM
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I remember a local company a decade ago where they were obligated to delete part of their data on fridays just to test all the backups and procedures. At the time I thought it was completely nuts. I probably still think it's at least a little bit nuts but I can see the point.
People like to say they have backups or a "backup procedure", but in my experience almost none of them ever tested the backup... Not even once. 95% of the time "having a backup procedure" just means "we have a replica of some data sitting somewhere with no idea how/if we can restore it, or how long it takes".