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 problem
in that few months.
In this case Schrödinger's backup was dead,alive and invisible.
Regular testing is important.
On 12/23/2016 03:36 PM, Mauro Souza wrote:
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" <talk@gtalug.org
<mailto:talk@gtalug.org>> wrote:
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 the usual tool. I have the docs to do the restore.
But how to test to make sure that restoring works, without
clobbering the active database?
Thank you
you can recover on a different machine or start a second instance
of the database on different ports.
This is the kind of place where virtualization or containerization
comes in handy.
Testing your backups is always a good idea.
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