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When redundant systems fail silently until needed

I discovered that our backup system has not been working for eight months and nobody noticed because we never had to restore anything during that period.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Your backups have been broken for months, and you only found out by luck.

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“Where Are You with Technology — IT Operations & Infrastructure?”

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