It really doesn’t matter how good or how fast your backup process is – it’s fastest if you just copy to /dev/null – if the recovery doesn’t work.
This is one of the times when the practices of ITIL and the like are very applicable even to the smallest IT department – like your own personal laptop computer.
Do a trial run of the recovery every now and then!
(At least I was told that ITIL emphasizes these trial runs. If it doesn’t – well, to do them still seems like a good idea to me)
Edit: As Robby Raschke said on Twitter: IT Service Continuity Management (ITSCM) in ITIL is where testing your business recovery is a critical component.
@rtraschke said on twitter:IT Service Continuity Management (ITSCM) in ITIL is where testing your business recovery is a critical component.(see: https://twitter.com/rtraschke/status/33164281017012224)
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