RE: Backup Plans for Data Loss

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June 22, 2017 at 2:24 pm

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor - Thursday, June 22, 2017 11:36 AM
Rod at work - Thursday, June 22, 2017 9:33 AM
In my previous job because there was only 2 of us, we wore all the hats. We had a DR plan, we wrote it up and tested it. But in the job I'm in now, its a large IT shop, very position is specialized. I'm a developer here, so I've no idea what the DR plans are or if they're practiced. I would assume that they exist and have been at least once practiced. I kind of hate asking about it though, as I feel both like I'm walking on egg shells and also because I know I'll get the, "this isn't any of your business" speech. Which, in fairness, it isn't any of my business.
I'd be sure I can recreate my stuff. Can I reproduce my dev work, is my VCS being backed up (I'd ask), and more. Might trigger others to be sure they can recover.

Years ago, I worked at a place where the disk storage for the Team Foundation server crashed and there were no backups (disclaimer: the TFS server was managed at the time by the QA team, and I was a developer). We lost not only our VCS but also work items and change control history for several projects. Fortunately between all team members, we were at least able to salvage the most recent branch of all projects from our local work folders, and I was able to retrieve a few prior versions for some files from my local \AppData\Local\Temp folder and by scripting out objects from backups of development and production database servers.

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