Schrodinger Backups: The condition of any backup is unknown until a restore is attempted

October 28, 2016in Humour last updated October 28, 2016

A tweet about backups got pretty popular among sysadmin and IT community. The tweet read as follows:

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The condition of any backup is unknown until a restore is attempted

Here is a tweet

#Sysadmin #Truth #Backup #Unix #Linux pic.twitter.com/suCT9ME58V
— nixCraft # (@nixcraft) June 24, 2015

Posted by: Vivek Gite

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