Open Tech Notes

No one cares if you can back up

I borrowed a book - Backup & Recovery by W.Curtis Preston - from library. As usual, I like read preface first so that I can get some background of the book.

What gave me a great impression was the author’s friend Joe Fitzpatrick said "No one cares if you can back up–only if you can recover."

Definitely, I truly believe it because it happened a lot of  around us. The company in the next door backed up their data by tape. What a coincidence! The tape they used have trouble to be reloaded while the hard drives in the server die. The reason is quite  simple — this tape has been used every night during the past three years.