NOTE · ON MAINTENANCE

Backups you have not tested are not backups.

There is a specific kind of cold horror reserved for the moment a backup restore fails. It is not the same as a server going down. It is the realization that a story you were telling yourself about your own preparedness was wrong.

I run a restore drill on every system I inherit, in the first two weeks, whether the client asks for it or not.

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If this shape of work is close to what you need, the practical next step is a conversation.
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Notes on software, operations, and the work — published on my personal site.

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