https://vo.rs/tags/restore/Latest from the Restore desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Sat, 23 Sep 2023 13:35:00 +0000https://vo.rs/story/testing-your-backups-the-restore-you-never-rehearsed/<p>There is a particular flavour of dread reserved for the moment you finally need a backup and discover it does not work. The disk is dead, the data is gone, you type the restore command with slightly shaking hands, and the tool reports that the repository is corrupt, or the passphrase you saved is wrong, or the &ldquo;nightly&rdquo; backup silently stopped running four months ago. Everything up to that moment felt like being protected. None of it was, because a backup you have never restored is a hypothesis about the future, and the day the disk dies is the worst possible time to test the hypothesis.</p>Sat, 23 Sep 2023 13:35:00 +0000