A DR Plan Is a Hypothesis You've Never Tested
A few weeks ago, recertifying my AWS Solutions Architect Professional cert for the second time, the course covered AWS Fault Injection Service, and it made me think about a company where the backups had been failing for a long time and nobody knew. The backups ran weekly to a server at a remote site, and the tapes were swapped by someone there whose job had nothing to do with infrastructure. Every swap the job had failed and the screen had shown a red line saying so, but the person doing the swapping had no reason to know red meant the backup had not worked. The job ran every week and the light was red every week. Nobody who could read the light was looking at it. ...