We just lost 3TB of data on a SanDisk Extreme SSDfloofloof@lemmy.ca to Technology@beehaw.org – 161 points – 11 months agotheverge.com86Post a CommentPreviewYou are viewing a single commentView all commentsShow the parent commentUntil 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.Deja Dup has a nice feature in that every once in a while is spawns and verifies that the backup is retrievableRetrievable is a start, at least.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.Testing a back isn't that hard, I typically test backups through digital ocean. They worked great.
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.Deja Dup has a nice feature in that every once in a while is spawns and verifies that the backup is retrievableRetrievable is a start, at least.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.Testing a back isn't that hard, I typically test backups through digital ocean. They worked great.
Deja Dup has a nice feature in that every once in a while is spawns and verifies that the backup is retrievableRetrievable is a start, at least.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.
Retrievable is a start, at least.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.
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.
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.
Deja Dup has a nice feature in that every once in a while is spawns and verifies that the backup is retrievable
Retrievable is a start, at least.
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.
Testing a back isn't that hard, I typically test backups through digital ocean. They worked great.