5 Linux backup and restore tips from the trenches

It’s easy to quote best practices and to tell someone what they should do, but it doesn’t always work in actual practice. “Everything works on paper,” was my response to an architect who told me that I need to “adhere to the recommended guidelines and best practices rather than being a rogue sysadmin.” The fact is that I wasn’t a rogue sysadmin. The problem was that this “architect” had never even been inside a data center, nor had he ever seen a server enclosure.