Is time to check our backup
May 24, 2007
From time to time we know that we’ve to backup important stuff. Some of us have an automated way to backup our desktop computers, laptops or servers; however is not a common task to check that our backups are OK and the data is there.
Recently we found an article in the New York Times about the unexpected crash of the editorial system of the Business 2.0 Magazine, which was about to compromise an issue of the magazine.
Because they never had to rely on the backup server in the past: no one had noticed that its programming was either obsolete or dysfunctional, or both..
So, if you’re backing up your data, make sure that the backup is reliable and recoverable.