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This was something I was curious about. How do you "test" your backups? I mean, you really can't totally trust the software's verification. SO do you just blow out the drives and restore form tape and see what happens? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Walden H. Leverich III" <WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "'PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users'" <pctech@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 4:46 PM Subject: RE: [PCTECH] how to back up a small PC network? > >From: Booth Martin [mailto:Booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx] > >Just out of curiosity's sake do you have the backup server remotely > located? > >(even if its in the garage.) > > Tapes go offsite every day. (Oh, and in a separate process critical SQL > databases are replicated to a remote location every 15 minutes) > > >Without remoteness you are missing a vital and cheap safeguard. > > Walden's 2 rules of backups: > 1) Backups that aren't off-site aren't backups. > 2) Backups that aren't tested aren't backups. > > -Walden
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