Re:Don’t Wanna Pay Ransom Gangs? Test Your Backups
by dylan604 on Monday July 19, 2021 @10:31PM
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That's the point of running these tests though. Take a system down (by turning it off, and putting it safely in the corner). Then bring up a new machine to replace it. Go through the steps you think would be the proper procedure, then document the shit out of what didn't work and what needed to be done. Write that up so that it becomes the new procedure. The next time you run this quarterly test, you start with the latest procedures. Updating accordingly, rinse, repeat.
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Re:Don’t Wanna Pay Ransom Gangs? Test Your Backups
by galuano1 on Monday July 19, 2021 @10:41PM
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When you work with the old systems, you are always afraid to shutdown the machine, because more often than not, it will not boot up. And if you petition to replace it with a new machine, you may very likely hear the phrase "We are planning to move the app to cloud, so no need to build a backup in the meanwhile".
Re:Don’t Wanna Pay Ransom Gangs? Test Your Backups
by whartung on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @01:05AM
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Back in the day, we had purchased a new, bigger machine, and transferred over, and everything was just peachy.
Months later, we had a power outage (scheduled I think, I don't recall).
Anyway, at some point during the transition and such, I managed to have the machines hard mount NFS across each other.
As long as one of the machines is up, everything is rosy. But cold start? They were both hanging while restoring the mount (which, they couldn't because neither was "up").
Took us about 1/2 hr to suss out what was happening and get single user in to tweak it, but...yea...exciting!
"Smart" people do this kind of innocent stuff all the time.
Re:Don’t Wanna Pay Ransom Gangs? Test Your Backups
by 908B64B197 on Monday July 19, 2021 @10:49PM
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"What if it shuts down tomorrow?"