Rounding Up a Backup

Five Reliable Methods to Verify Your Backup's Integrity Back in 1998, Oren Jacob, assistant technical director at Pixar, watched in horror as “Toy Story 2” files were deleted before his eyes. By a crazy stroke of luck, he happened to be looking at file directories right when they started to vanish. After months of work on a highly anticipated sequel project with a hard deadline, it had disappeared in real-time. In a cinematic moment, the team made a frenzied call to pull the plug on the central server to stop the hemorrhaging. When the producers rebooted the project, 90% of…