<p dir="ltr">Many years ago a bunch I worked with hired a moron to run their IT at their home office in another state. He set up a back up system. The CFO hosed the accounting and instead of making a series of correcting entries just deleted the entire mess and went to restore from backups.</p>
<p dir="ltr">They didn't work. The backups were garbage. The ENTIRE financial history was gone. And they were getting audited by their main federal contract money source. I couldn't stop laughing until I realized my last invoice had not been paid yet. DOH! I got that check 2 years later.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Nobody gives a crap about backups. They really only care about restores. <br>
Testing the restore process is more important than all the rest of setting up the backups.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 19, 2016 7:44 PM, "Alex Carver" <<a href="mailto:agcarver%2Bale@acarver.net">agcarver+ale@acarver.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">The lesson is that restoring files via rdiff-backup actually works quite<br>
well. I'm very happy the restore was relatively painless.<br>
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