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by citizenpaul 356 days ago
If your company is big enough to have dedicated ops then it should be running regular tests on backups. A disaster recovery process if you will.

At some point though its not your problem when the company is big enough. Are you gonna do everyone's job? You tell em what you need in writing and if they drop the ball its their head.
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wombatpm 354 days ago
The majority of our apps were Java, running Tomcat on windows server using MSSQL or oracle. That was tested as part of DR. Our Linux servers running Python and Postgres were not as high a priority apparently.

The lack of working backups made it a problem because if assurances and certifications we were required to maintain.

When starting a new project I now request a dev database with a dump from prod more than 30 days ago just to see the process work. Does it waste their time? Maybe. In which case it encourages more automation. Do I care no? But I am not getting burned again.

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scott_w 356 days ago
It’s relative. No, I’m not sitting on the shoulder of the team that manages that (nor should I, there’d be 40 EMs bothering them!) but I fully expect my CTO has done it. And if not? Well, one day it’ll blow up and I’m looking for another job but that’s no different to any other possible major issues.
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