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  • (Score: 4, Touché) by Adrian Harvey on Sunday November 01 2015, @08:55AM

    by Adrian Harvey (222) on Sunday November 01 2015, @08:55AM (#257123)

    I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Nobody cares about backups!
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    But everyone cares about restores!

    Seriously, I've found it better to start people talking about what circumstances they want to be able to get their data back than how it should be backed up - and that should apply here too - the question should be ...last tested your restores? It's no good having a well verified copy if it won't restore. But a test restore validates the backups too (and is, in fairness, what the author meant.).

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