How often do you actually test your backups?

My monitoring setup alerts me within a minute of downtime and costs nothing.

Staging is just a subdomain plus a database copy — nothing fancy, works fine.

Learned the hard way that an untested backup is a Schrödinger backup.

Maybe this has been discussed before, but I could not find anything recent.

certbot with the nginx plugin has been flawless for me.

Free CDN tier is more than enough for a forum.

Could not agree more.

Nice thread, following for the replies.

Free CDN tier is more than enough for a forum.

Test restores monthly — it has saved me twice now.

certbot with the nginx plugin has been flawless for me.

A simple rsync cron is my entire backup strategy and I sleep fine.

That has been my experience as well.

I disagree slightly, but I can see where you are coming from.

certbot with the nginx plugin has been flawless for me.

Test restores monthly — it has saved me twice now.

Thanks for sharing, saved me a lot of time.

Test restores monthly — it has saved me twice now.

Free CDN tier is more than enough for a forum.

Interesting — I will have to try that.

Same registrar here, never had a problem in six years.

Test restores monthly — it has saved me twice now.

Bumping this because I ran into the same thing today.

Same registrar here, never had a problem in six years.

Free CDN tier is more than enough for a forum.

Same registrar here, never had a problem in six years.

A simple rsync cron is my entire backup strategy and I sleep fine.