[carapace]

"Backups are a tax you pay for the luxury of restore" [1]

A lot of people pay the tax and never even try the lux.

[1] http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/2/3/how-google-backs-up...

[everybodyknows]

Good blog post. This, I suggest, is its most essential point:

"Prove it. If you don’t try it it doesn’t work. Backups and restores are continually tested to verify they work"