Comments on: What Toy Story 2 Can Teach You About Testing Your Backups and Recovery Strategy https://thomaslarock.com/2012/05/what-toy-story-2-can-teach-you-about-testing-your-backups-and-recovery-strategy/ Thomas LaRock is an author, speaker, data expert, and SQLRockstar. He helps people connect, learn, and share. Along the way he solves data problems, too. Tue, 02 Apr 2013 13:41:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: window cleaners sydney https://thomaslarock.com/2012/05/what-toy-story-2-can-teach-you-about-testing-your-backups-and-recovery-strategy/#comment-7013 Thu, 07 Jun 2012 03:04:00 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=8651#comment-7013 When some vital data was corrupted, there was no backup.  Had the user
known, they would have made manual backups until the normal backups were
up again.

]]> By: Peter Maloof https://thomaslarock.com/2012/05/what-toy-story-2-can-teach-you-about-testing-your-backups-and-recovery-strategy/#comment-6992 Sat, 02 Jun 2012 13:12:00 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=8651#comment-6992 “Working from home can solve everything.”

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]]> By: schubash https://thomaslarock.com/2012/05/what-toy-story-2-can-teach-you-about-testing-your-backups-and-recovery-strategy/#comment-6968 Wed, 16 May 2012 17:27:00 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=8651#comment-6968 Wonderful video.  This and the true story of the loss of all the SideKick data because Microsoft and Hitachi both insisted that a backup wasn’t necessary…… they let you know that even the biggest supposedly bestest of companies make basic backup mistakes. 

At a client of mine backups had been failing for three months on an app server and the server team knew it but never told anybody who had data on that server.  When some vital data was corrupted, there was no backup.  Had the user known, they would have made manual backups until the normal backups were up again.  It astounded me at the time, but seems like this kind of thing happens again and again.

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