On 2020-08-09 02:07, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
We should all be in the habit of regularly performing a restore to test our backups are working.
I would add -- "to a spare server". I am loath to overwrite my primary server data, out of subliminal fear conditioned by past bad experiences.
High availability is the logical extension of backup-restore-migrate. This requires services that support it:
https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/old/Samba3-HOWTO/SambaHA.html https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/high-availability.html David