Many years ago I worked for a company that had a tape backup system they
sold with their computers.
Due to a firmware screw up for fewmonths the backuptapes were written
blank and thenwhen they were verified they verified as good.
Fortunatelynone of the banks that were using the systems had a
If you don't test, you will have a Schrödinger's backup: both valid and
invalid at the same time, until you try a restore.
On Dec 23, 2016 6:20 PM, "Alvin Starr via talk" wrote:
> On 12/23/2016 02:59 PM, Stephen via talk wrote:
>
> With the discussion about backups, I would like to raise a quest
On 12/23/2016 02:59 PM, Stephen via talk wrote:
With the discussion about backups, I would like to raise a question I
have had for some time.
Having backups does no good if you cannot restore them. Files are
rather easy to test.
But how do you test restoring a database?
I back it up with th
Restore on another database? Or in a virtual machine? Or in a container?
On Dec 23, 2016 6:08 PM, "Dave Cramer via talk" wrote:
> back it up on another machine
>
> Dave Cramer
>
> On 23 December 2016 at 14:59, Stephen via talk wrote:
>
>> With the discussion about backups, I would like to raise
back it up on another machine
Dave Cramer
On 23 December 2016 at 14:59, Stephen via talk wrote:
> With the discussion about backups, I would like to raise a question I have
> had for some time.
>
> Having backups does no good if you cannot restore them. Files are rather
> easy to test.
>
> But
With the discussion about backups, I would like to raise a question I
have had for some time.
Having backups does no good if you cannot restore them. Files are rather
easy to test.
But how do you test restoring a database?
I back it up with the usual tool. I have the docs to do the restore.
