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Testing DATTO backups? (lemmy.radio)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by vk6flab@lemmy.radio to c/sysadmin@lemmy.world

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Anyone here have any experience with a Datto Backup Appliance?

I have just been told that they've never run a full restoration in the six years that it's been in service, deployed for the backup of four mission critical virtual Windows Servers, four Windows Workstation and a (physical?) Linux PABX server.

The actual appliance is apparently a "Datto S3-2000 BCDR"

Edit: The anal retentive in me is going WTF in a tight loop. The industry professional with 40 years experience in the field is going, different day, same old...

I realised that I didn't actually ask the pertinent question, the hamster wheel was running full tilt, but is this normal, or is this WTF, or somewhere in-between?

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[–] Leeks@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (14 children)

Unfortunately, pretty normal.

Datto does have a service where it restore the daily backup to a VM and boot it to make sure it gets to the login screen, has that been running?

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 1 points 2 weeks ago (13 children)

I doubt it.

Does it have a name?

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