The Friday Backup Audit: Because Hope Is Not a Strategy
The Nightmare Scenario We’ve all heard the horror stories. A database corruption hits production. The team stays calm because “Don’t worry, we have nightly backups.” Then comes the moment of truth: tar -xvf backup.tar.gz. Error: Unexpected EOF in archive. Or worse: The file extracts perfectly, but the database inside is empty because the mysqldump command failed silently three months ago. If you haven’t restored a backup, you don’t have a backup. You just have a file taking up disk space. ...