World Backup Day - Check your backups
Today is World Backup Day.
There are some good deals there for cloud-style backup systems.
But more importantly, today should be a reminder for us all to review our backups of our precious data.
And even for the smug folks like me who have backups sorted, today is a day to check your data restores properly.
- If you have no backups, check the deals out and sort it out.
- If you have backups, review that they're covering everything you want - then do a test restore!
- If you're smugly assured that everything you care about's safe in the cloud (on LJ, Twitter, Delicious, etc), consider grabbing an offline copy using a backup script or the built-in tools. No such tool? Complain!
Later today, I'll be doing a test restore or two, followed by a quick review of what and how I backup.
Don't leave it until it's too late...