Re: backup to and restore from local win server

[PaulMmn <PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Another important consideration--  have the backup tapes ever been 
used to restore something to the system they came from?  You can 
write all you want, but if a tape can't be read, you're in deep 
doo-doo!

As the saying goes-- "a submarine dive isn't completely successful 
until the boat returns to the surface!"

--Paul E Musselman




At 12:48 AM -0400 11/5/17, DrFranken wrote:
> I would add "How is the local Windows server backed up?" Or perhaps: 
> "Is the local windows server backed up?"  If it's not then this idea 
> isn't even worth the time to consider it. Consider what happens when 
> you have a 'smoking hole', 'swimming pool', or 'flattened pile' 
> instead of a data center, where do you recover from then?  In this 
> situation it's no different than a customer with a tape library that 
> holds a nice stack of tapes which they rotate through but never 
> remove from the library. It's all very convenient but there are way 
> too many situations where there is NO recovery option.
>
> Remember the name of the book is the "Backup and RECOVERY guide." :-)
>
>         - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis