As a standard practice now, IT professionals are backing up their company data. Some of these people are also backing up their own personal data. People who are not even associated with IT and have had some kind of failure also know about making backups. Now actually doing that is another question. This post is really about making backups. Most people are aware that it is a good idea. The problem comes when it is time to use those backups. If something bad has happened and you need to use the back up, what happens if the backup is no good? Recently I have tried to access some information from a phone backup. Normally messages on a phone are no big deal, but if they are needed for say some legal purpose, what happens if you can not view what has been backed up. If the backup is bad and never tested, it is just the same as not doing a backup at all. The next step in making sure we save all those important things seems like it will be in the cloud; but this basically makes you sign all your rights to security of data away. This is just not practical for most businesses. So now we must figure out an effective way to not only backup our systems and phones. But make sure are backups will work. Making sure that what we back up our Backups.
