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Similar to many of us make backups in IT but how many actually do try them out and restore?

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Every day. All of them (automated).

Can you turn/expand that into a somewhat longer answer, a list of links that you perused to build that or .. a post on its own?

Brains and know-how my good man, not copypasta.

We have yearly recovery exercises for randomly chosen subsets of servers and databases.