Reply to post: Re: Re:And they TEST the ****ing backups.

Post-outage King's College London orders staff to never make their own backups

SImon Hobson Bronze badge

Re: Re:And they TEST the ****ing backups.

Backups never fail

Err, yes they do. I've had both disk and tape failures during backup. I think you are confusing "backup failure" (as in fails and reports the failure) with "backup apparently worked but is unretrievable" (as in, reports success, but data isn't readable).

Now, where had I got to in that book on advanced pedantry ...

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