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How backup paranoia creates new forms of insecurity

I wrote a script to automatically backup our database to three different cloud providers but now I worry constantly about whether the backups are actually working since I never test restoring them.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Redundant safety measures can breed doubt rather than confidence when they remain untested.

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