>I asked if they ever tested the backups... no. THIS. I briefly worked for a major European bank. There was a system that was backed up on tape. The way they

>I asked if they ever tested the backups... no. THIS. I briefly worked for a major European bank. There was a system that was backed up on tape. The way they checked the backups was to visually look at the tape spool - before sending the tapes off to a mountain to be preserved. One day, they needed something from a back up. Sure enough, the tapes were simply blank due a bug in the back up script.