Oh the lovely “Restore from Backup” dread that will only open pit in your stomach.
I received a panicked call from a friend recently who had the mistaken fortune of running a bad robocopy job that literally wiped out everything on their file server. When I say everything, I mean everything.
They had their Client backups on that server. Their file history on that server, folder redirection on that server. EVERYTHING.
When was their last reliable backup? Three months previous.
What had they done between panic and calling me? They did a rush job of buying recovery software and restoring from one drive with the live data. Unfortunately they restored to a drive that had only two weeks previous had everything on it. Using restore software on that drive and restoring to a different drive would have put their recovery point objective (RPO) only two weeks back.
Turns out its rather difficult to use recovery software on SSDs and get reliable data. This was something I wasn’t prepared for.