Take the 2-minute tour ×  At my work, backups have a
surprisingly low priority. The backup strategy was implemented a
while ago, and since then it's just assumed the backups are
fine. If you ask the sysadmins, they'll say everything is backed
up.  But then, when you ask for a SPECIFIC backup, half the time
they are not there:    • The disk got full   • The tape failed
• Looks like someone disabled the backup job   • The network
connection had downtime   • We ordered that disk years ago, but
finance hasn't approved the purchase order   • The files are
corrupt   • File contains wrong database   • Only transaction
log backups (useless without a full one)  A few weeks ago,
disaster came real close as one of the servers lost one too many
raid disks. Luckily one disk was still kind enough to copy the
data, if you tried a lot of times.  But even after that near-
disaster, I can't seem to convince the sysadmins to improve the
situation. So I'm wondering, any tips for opening people's eyes?
It seems to me we're walki