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[-] how_we_burned@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago

in my ~15 years of IT, I’ve never seen a backup not restore properly.

I remember Outlook backups failing like nothing else during the restore process 25 years ago.

Which was fucked because it would take 2 weeks to rebuild only to find out it didn't work.

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