Well, not if it's the server that fails and it turns out that the backups won't fully restore properly, even using earlier backups. Just happened to us on Monday. Some projects were back to normal the same day. Unfortunately, some are up the creek now. Fortunately, I'm not IT.

Backing up is half the battle. Doing test recoveries at regular intervals is the other half. Well, and maybe sending the tapes far, far away is the third half. Anyone, have I missed half? <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />