[GTALUG] Portable Backup Drive Compatible with Linux (and Recommended Backup Software)

Lennart Sorensen lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Thu Feb 2 12:01:22 EST 2017


On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 04:05:31PM -0500, Alvin Starr wrote:
> Trying to explain to people why they need a whole bunch of spare
> computers and take days of solid work to test disaster recovery is
> always a hard sell.
> 
> You usually get a look like "what are you incompetent? You should just
> do it right the first time and not need to test".

Well they could at least have looked that the backups appeared to
contain data.  Apparently they didn't even do that and had essentially
zero byte backups.

-- 
Len Sorensen


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