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Until the backups don’t work.

Untested backups can hold all sorts of surprises.

Sadly, testing backups is a lot of work and is rarely done.

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Deja Dup has a nice feature in that every once in a while is spawns and verifies that the backup is retrievable

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Retrievable is a start, at least.

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Sorry, I should have said verified. it reads through the backup and checks data integrity/checksums etc. so you know it can be retrieved properly.

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Testing a back isn’t that hard, I typically test backups through digital ocean. They worked great.

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