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Somehow I had a database corruption and I did not know how to restore from backup. It was a bad experience until I saw that it worked. Make regular and check your backups.

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[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

this drove me nuts at workplaces. we have to test the backups after backup. so many did not want to waste the resources. if it worked fine once it will always work fine to them.

[–] illusionist@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like there's room for a tool that checks backups

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 0 points 2 months ago

or ai that evaluates. For me the backup works if the whole system actually works. Its more commonly known as disaster recovery.