floofloof@lemmy.ca to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 11 months agoWe just lost 3TB of data on a SanDisk Extreme SSDwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square89fedilinkarrow-up1162arrow-down10cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
arrow-up1162arrow-down1external-linkWe just lost 3TB of data on a SanDisk Extreme SSDwww.theverge.comfloofloof@lemmy.ca to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square89fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
minus-squareupstream@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up11·11 months agoUntil the backups don’t work. Untested backups can hold all sorts of surprises. Sadly, testing backups is a lot of work and is rarely done.
minus-squareBCsven@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up3·11 months agoDeja Dup has a nice feature in that every once in a while is spawns and verifies that the backup is retrievable
minus-squareBCsven@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-211 months agoSorry, I should have said verified. it reads through the backup and checks data integrity/checksums etc. so you know it can be retrieved properly.
minus-squareMJBrune@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 months agoTesting a back isn’t that hard, I typically test backups through digital ocean. They worked great.
Until the backups don’t work.
Untested backups can hold all sorts of surprises.
Sadly, testing backups is a lot of work and is rarely done.
Deja Dup has a nice feature in that every once in a while is spawns and verifies that the backup is retrievable
Retrievable is a start, at least.
Sorry, I should have said verified. it reads through the backup and checks data integrity/checksums etc. so you know it can be retrieved properly.
Testing a back isn’t that hard, I typically test backups through digital ocean. They worked great.