Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Our backup rotation doesn't go back nearly that far.

  I think this is the WTF in this post.

  What good is a backup if you are going to destroy backups which are
"too old"? Do they assume that nobody will ever want to restore a file
which was deleted more than a certain amount of time ago?

  Sure, after a certain time it may not be necessary to store daily
backups, but IMO after a certain time eg. weekly backups could be
preserved, and after a longer time eg. monthly backups. You never know
what you may want to restore.

  Besides, if storage space is an issue, haven't they heard of incremental
backups? It is possible to store eg. daily backups (which are fully
restorable to any of the days in question) of an entire month in a way
that requires significantly less space than 30*(size of data being backed up).

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