@nixCraft *prints this on a poster board*
*turns that poster into a wearable sandwich board where the other side says "RESTORING ONE SINGLE FILE FROM THE BACKUP SERVICE TELLS YOU JACK SHIT ABOUT YOUR ABILITY TO HIT RESTORE TIME AND RESTORE POINT OBJECTIVES AND IS IRRELEVANT IN DETERMINING WHETHER SERVICE RECOVERY IS EVEN POSSIBLE"*
*parades in front of $JOB_IT_DEPARTMENT building just wordlessly screaming through a bullhorn at every single person entering or leaving*
@gnomon Psst let's not ask about cold-starting your environment from either a total power loss or a disaster recovery scenario.
(We walked through a mostly theoretical exercise on this at work at one point, although we did do a proof of concept set of restores from our offsite backups along with bringing up core servers. It was interesting and useful.)