• thisbenzingring@lemmy.today
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    16 hours ago

    it’s a fair argument but it’s also bullshit if you’re following the process and practices that you used when you tested your backup

    lots of my job is backups and verification of the backups

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      16 hours ago

      Bold of you to assume people/companies test backups more than once.

      Case in point: I once got instructed to “enable EBS snapshots” for customer deployments to meet a new backup requirement. Disaster recovery was a completely different feature we only kind of got to a couple years later and afaik, remains manual to this day.

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        15 hours ago

        that’s fair and I agree but it’s not a true maxim

        it’s a good principal but I hear it a lot so it’s a thing I get annoyed about because it’s directed at me even though I have the receipts and proven record that it’s not a fact