PURPOSE

Backups are essential to any IT job. Some consider backups as the most critical tasks in an administrator’s day. Why? Because when a backup is done correctly (and performed regularly), recovering from a disaster is less of a nightmare and more of an inconvenience. Without those backups, your business could be non-operational for some time.

This checklist from TechRepublic Premium will help you manage them successfully.

From the checklist:

CHECK THE CONTENTS OF YOUR BACKUPS

Your backup solution might be tirelessly backing up whatever directories you’ve configured. But sometimes, things go awry. What happens if you assume backups have succeeded, but the software or the backup files are misleading and missing some critical files and folders? That’s not what you want to face. So when you’re checking to confirm a backup has succeeded, mount a backup file and review its contents. This might add a few minutes to your daily routine, but the security it offers is well worth the effort.