On Thu, 30 May 2013, Sean Dennis wrote to mark lewis:

 ml> especially after spending a few hours waiting on the back to run in
 ml> the first place and then to turn around and spend more
 ml> hours waiting on the restoration? i've never seen it
 ml> done... not even in the corporate world... backups were
 ml> done, yes... tested? if you call verification during the
 ml> backup process "tested"...

 SD> I got paid to do it so I didn't mind.  Besides, 99% of the time,
 SD> the  restoration was fully automated so we didn't have to sit there
 SD> and watch  it.  We'd glance at it occasionally, but not just sit
 SD> there for hours  and hours.

i got paid to do it, too... for those clients that hired my company for
that service because they didn't want to do it themselves... but none of
the restores were tests of the backup and they were not done on duplicate
machines... only on the original machine when it had a failure or data
loss...

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