{"id":1476,"date":"2021-05-08T14:10:52","date_gmt":"2021-05-08T18:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/brd\/wp\/?p=1476"},"modified":"2023-12-05T07:35:34","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T12:35:34","slug":"rule-1-of-time-to-restore-from-backups-club-is-do-not-panic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/index.php\/2021\/05\/08\/rule-1-of-time-to-restore-from-backups-club-is-do-not-panic\/","title":{"rendered":"Rule #1 of &#8220;Time to Restore from Backups&#8221; Club is Do Not Panic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh the lovely &#8220;Restore from Backup&#8221; dread that will only open pit in your stomach.<\/p>\n<p>I received a panicked call from a friend recently who had the mistaken fortune of running a bad robocopy job that literally wiped out <em>everything<\/em> on their file server. When I say everything, I mean everything.<\/p>\n<p>They had their Client backups on that server. Their file history on that server, folder redirection on that server. <em><strong>EVERYTHING<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>When was their last reliable backup? Three months previous.<\/p>\n<p>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 <em>recovery point objective<\/em> (RPO) only two weeks back.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out its rather difficult to use recovery software on SSDs and get reliable data. This was something I wasn&#8217;t prepared for.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh the lovely &#8220;Restore from Backup&#8221; 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 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1476"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1604,"href":"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476\/revisions\/1604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}