Backup Restore Testing: Prove You Can Recover Before Lunch
Silent backup failure is common. Here is what a restore test means — and what your IT partner monitors versus what leadership still decides.
Backups can “succeed” while restoring nothing useful: wrong machine, empty folders, expired credentials, or a job that stopped weeks ago. Nobody notices until ransomware, theft, or a deleted database makes it urgent.
If your only proof is a green checkmark in a portal, you have monitoring theater — not recovery confidence.