How often do you actually test your backups? — follow-up

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

I put every site behind the same free CDN tier and forgot about DDoS worries.

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.

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

Test restores monthly — it has saved me twice now.

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

certbot with the nginx plugin has been flawless for me.

Free CDN tier is more than enough for a forum.

Good point, I had not thought of it that way.

Thanks for sharing, saved me a lot of time.

Test restores monthly — it has saved me twice now.

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

certbot with the nginx plugin has been flawless for me.

Good point, I had not thought of it that way.

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

Nice thread, following for the replies.

Test restores monthly — it has saved me twice now.

Could not agree more.

That has been my experience as well.

certbot with the nginx plugin has been flawless for me.

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

Test restores monthly — it has saved me twice now.

Free CDN tier is more than enough for a forum.

Good point, I had not thought of it that way.