Dare to answer my two back-up questions

[ls354]

Two very simple question I use to freak out people around me?

Did you verify the integrity of the back up?

Did you create a back-up of the back-up?

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Usually a get a no no.

They say back-ups are for chumps

[elija]

Answers = yes / no

Here is another one for you to ask

Did you do a test restore from your backup?

[bigtomrodney]

Verify? Sometimes.
Backup of backup? Only critical items, usually offsite.
Test Restore? Critical, always do.

Test restores are the thing a lot of people forget about that ends up getting them caught out.

[Manchunian]

Yes to both. I have two external hardrives and backup everything on my computer to at least one of them. One of the harddrives is a portable one that I can take with me to work and I have all my work related stuff on the college network. So, some of my stuff is backed up in three different places! I have literally years and years of work on my computer harddrive and I'm paranoid about losing any of it, especially as my computer's getting a bit long in the tooth now.