Re: Lost my gramps data base ... help!
Peter Merchant <[email protected]>
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When I was lecturing at university, the last line of my Disaster Recovery Lecture was 'If you haven't tested your plan, you don't have a plan' Peter M. On 07/02/2022 21:54, Emyoulation--- via Gramps-users wrote: > Sooner or later most tech users are burned by the backup practices they THOUGHT were sufficient. > > I've had commercial software (whose ONLY purpose is automated backup) doing nightly archives to DAT (with validation) spontaneously & silently change configuration due to security patches. And only discovered that we had weeks of unusable incremental backups when performing a quarterly full restore test. > > Some earlier tests were unusable because they were tied to the hardware configuration. The archives were fine if restored to the same server. But if that box crashed & burned, the backup software refused to restore to a different serial number configuration of motherboard, processor ID, OS license & c: drive. > > The lesson is that: no backup exists until it has been fully restored to a test box. Any backup you THINK is reliably stored off-site is smoke & mirrors until it is put to real world use. > > -Brian > > -- Gramps-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gramps-users https://gramps-project.org