Five tips on monitoring your backup completes successfully, every time, even when you’re on holiday.
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jonahzona
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All boxes checked. What do I win?
In all seriousness, while monitoring backup files for modification is good, if they are modified it is already too late. In today’s environment you need to include immutable or offline backups as part of your design.
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Hi Jonah, you are correct. It is mentioned in point 5. Good old tapes seem never to die.
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But depending on how long you tend to keep the tapes…the tapes do die ??
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Tapes getting brittle and/or fungus or moldy infected over time
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LTO tape need correct LTO drive versions to read the tapes.
Then you may also need the appropriate backup software to read the content on the tapes IF you can get the old backup server to work.
All valid points. It makes sense to rent a secure storage place with controlled environmental conditions, for example at some bank.
Plus rehearse backup retrieval as part of business continuity checkups once in a while.
