[dbenhur]

> One would only actually test the backups about twice a year just to be damn sure they are still resulting in restorable data.

Nope. Nope. Nope.

You test every backup by automatically restoring from it in a sandbox and verifying its integrity and functionality in the restored state.

Backups are worthless unless verified for their intended use of recovering a functioning system.

[XorNot]

You're imagining an automated test system. But Gitlabs problem was the automated system was not communicating failures properly.

And constant "this succeeded" messages don't scale well.