On backups...

[snoopyh42.livejournal.com]

I found out last night that the "Backup Administrator" (this is separate from the "Restore Administrator", but that's another story) at my customer site in San Pedro is of the belief that a full backup should be run only once. Any subsequent backups should be differentials from the original full. This means that their last full backup was sometime before the year 2000.

Fortunately, I'm just a contractor and can give advice, but it's not up to me what their policies are.

ETA: I don't know all the details on their backup scheme or software, but just that statement made me cringe and I thought it was worth sharing.

(x-posted to snoopyh42)