Schrödinger’s Backup: Is Your Backup Really a Backup?

The worst time to find out you’ve got a problem with your backup system is when everything has gone sideways and you need to bring it all back online RIGHT NOW.

We work in an industry where pretty much everything needs to be backed up. Our code. Our databases. Our webservers. Our file servers. Even our network configurations. Everything.

The worst time to find out you’ve got a problem with your backup system is when everything has gone sideways and you need to bring it all back online RIGHT NOW.

Can you do it?

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In this session I’ll hopefully convince you that you don’t know if your Backup is alive or dead if you haven’t tried to Restore it.