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Backups Aren't Simple

359 points · 225 comments · afilipovski

AdieuToLogic · 1789606741 · focus · HN ↗
A friend of mine used to work at Veritas[0] making enterprise data retention solutions. When I spoke about their product as being "making backups", he corrected me by saying:
```
  We are not in the backup business.  We are in the restoration
  business.
```
0 - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backup_Exec" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backup_Exec
1. voiceofunreason · 1789608671 · focus · HN ↗
  Backups are boring. Restores, on the other hand, are often exciting.
  1. wallst07 · 1789639184 · focus · HN ↗
    If Seinfeld told a backup joke:
    "You know how to take the backup, you just don't know how to restore the backup. And that's really the most important part of the backup, the restoring. Anybody can just copy a file!"

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