Re: backup to and restore from local win server

And the related maxim: "All aircraft land, whether the plane can be flown again after the landing determines the measure of success."

Seriously this appears in a large number of by systems management sessions:

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"If you have not completely recovered your system from your backup
then you do not have a backup. What you have, at best, is a box
of tapes (save files, zip files etc) with stuff on them."
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- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

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On 11/5/2017 11:15 AM, PaulMmn wrote:

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