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July 17, 2010
Have you ever thought about Restoring?
We often talk about backing up our documents (documents, spreadsheets, databases, pictures, movies, songs) about we seldom spare a thought for crunch time – Restoring the file.
With documents, it’s easy. If your document has gone missing or is badly corrupted, you can simply restore from backup or from a copy on the ubiquitous USB Flash Drive. A no brainer, actually.
But what happens when a file is a database or a spreadsheet that keeps multiple tables and has a long running lifespan? It can be the case that you end up with one file having table A intact with table B out of date or missing records, another file, the reverse.
Brings to mind to ask the master of the backup job whether the backup is daily, weekly or monthly. And when the old backup media is recycled. Do you really have 30 single days of backup or just one backup, 30 days old?
If you have 30 single days of backup, how do you restore in such a way that you have 30 separate files (or systems) so that you can do a compare to see which ones are worth merging or keeping.
Think about it and make the contingency plans. Before it’s too late.
Ananda
Posted by Anandasim at July 17, 2010 01:57 PM
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