Re: backup to and restore from local win server

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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
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> 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