Most people know the importance of backups, and probably do them religiously in their businesses. But these same people normally get bitten after the disaster has struck, because they cannot restore that backup.
There could be various reasons.
The point here is that once you’ve made a backup of your critical data, how sure are you that you can actually restore the data?
It is pretty pointless to have your data on a tape or external drive, but there’s no way to restore it. So without ever testing a restore, your backup solution is only 50% done. Continue reading “Testing your backups”