[kindatrue]

>I asked if they ever tested the backups... no.

THIS.

I briefly worked for a major European bank. There was a system that was backed up on tape. The way they checked the backups was to visually look at the tape spool - before sending the tapes off to a mountain to be preserved.

One day, they needed something from a back up. Sure enough, the tapes were simply blank due a bug in the back up script.

[giantg2]

"The way they checked the backups was to visually look at the tape spool"

Lol