I will jump in real quick. I have the benefit of working with folks in the IT industry far wiser than I. There is an adage, and I am sure the other techno-geeks have heard it. "Your backup is only as good as your last restore." The point being a dry-run is a must. Taking on faith that the backup worked AND the restore will work is not a smart thing. Remember you're depending on software which a) was released for economic/profit reasons, not for maturity b) it will be screwed up software/hardware which creates the problem...be very dubious of any software that claims to "make everything better". I will digress....I have an old warhorse who works for me; to quote him "when we were setting up the first IP network..." meanwhile he is a compulsive psychopath when it comes to backups. Why? Because he has been burned *MANY* times by "backup solutions". This is one of those things where "Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me”...ok enough quotes...well maybe not:

"If you can't beat your computer at chess, try kickboxing."

Marc