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Originally Posted by tdh8192
You guys ever actually restore the data after a major crash? I can recall a few horror stories about IT shops that religiously backed up their data but never bothered to verify if those backups could be used to restore. In one case, several days of production was lost costing several hundred thousand dollars and in another, none of the data was recoverable after a crash which cost them millions.
I've used these stories several times in persuading management that, yes, the database and web server farms can be taken off-line while these restore scenarios are tested.
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Actually a few weeks ago we had to restore all of DAC and some other directories due to some issues. No problems arose. I know what you speak of as I work in the IT industry. Fortunately, the backups are stored as flat files rather than in some huge mystery format or tarball. In a worst case scenario we can actually restore the database and home directories by hand, leaving only oddball things like linked directories, email accounts, forwarders, url redirections, etc to be setup by hand.
With that said we backup 4.4 GB of data.... this does include lots of odd stuff such as autoinstallers, email accounts, and some other non diecast related sites for personal use..
-FD