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Unverified Backup and Restore

Teams cannot trust that backups will actually restore, so recovery failures only surface during real outages.

In their words

I need your suggestions and recommendations for an alternative solution, mainly due to the increasing cost of renewal from last 3 years without any new features which we use.

r/sysadmin on Reddit

We have been looking for solutions for device backup without having each user pay for iCloud storage via each Apple ID.

r/sysadmin on Reddit

Is it technically feasible to run two backup platforms against the same Microsoft 365 tenant?

r/msp on Reddit

The more I thought about it the more I realised how inadequate these backup files would be in the event of a wider system problem.

r/truenas on Reddit

does anyone know how best to identify if any of my other clients had data on this Node without manually checking?

r/msp on Reddit

we don't trust it enough to set up any kind of non-manual backup

r/office on Reddit

IAM keys that worked before the suspension now return InvalidClientTokenId, so we cannot read our own resources or export a backup.

r/aws on Reddit

Every backup thread ends with "an untested backup is not a backup," everyone upvotes, and then nobody has an automated restore test anywhere.

r/devops on Reddit

each seems to have tradeoffs around complexity, documentation gap, storage flexibility, or cloud provider limitations

r/kubernetes on Reddit

data that only exists in one place doesn't actually exist it's just temporarily available

r/QuickBooksHacks on Reddit

I honestly can not remember the last time we performed a full restore test.

r/linuxadmin on Reddit

L'outil est totalement vide. Pas seulement pour ce compte, mais sur la totalité de mes infrastructures et de mes autres clients chez eux.

r/Sysadmin_Fr on Reddit

I still needed to spend significant time on the recurring manual steps of backup processes for everywhere we put data we couldn't afford to lose

Hacker News

when it all dies and then I have no backup is when I give up

Hacker News

Sysadmins, MSPs, IT teams

Where they talk

  • r/sysadmin
  • r/selfhosted
  • r/Proxmox
  • r/aws
  • r/msp
  • r/AZURE
  • r/homelab
  • r/sre

Tools they use today

  • Veeam
  • Proxmox
  • Docker
  • S3
  • Cove
  • Supabase
  • Terraform
  • rclone

Why those fall short

  • No admin path into own tenant; support cannot restore access
  • no auto-save, unstable office WiFi and computers
  • unknown if backups actually work
  • vendor stopped feature updates in 2019; tape rot not fixable by monitoring
  • no admin access or permissions to perform the restore