On 9/6/24 08:26, Miguel Santos wrote:
If it is an auditor that is requesting this information, most likely
they want to see that you are able to restore data from the backups, and
that the recovered data is actually useful from a business perspective.
There is no tool for doing that other than doing a couple of restores
yourself and testing your data, because it depends on all the
applications you are running at your organization and how detailed you
were with your analysis of the data to be backed up and your plan to
restore.
In BareOS, there are some things you can do, like
this: https://docs.bareos.org/Appendix/VerifyFileIntegrityWithBareos.html and https://docs.bareos.org/Configuration/Director.html#config-Dir_Job_VerifyJob but that compares the files you specified in your backup. It does not mean that the data is useful, from the auditor's perspective.
Good luck.
Thanks Miguel! In addition: for organizations we (as bareos company)
offer 'bareos health check' where we can actually verify the
installation, backup strategy & goals (and the restore test ;-))
If interested contact me directly or use contact form on website.
best,
Frank
On Thursday, September 5, 2024 at 9:47:22 PM UTC+2 Riot Nrrrd™ wrote:
Hello,
At my work we were recently written up by auditors because even
though we have Bareos backing up our systems, we had no proof of the
"validity and reliability of the [Bareos] backups".
Does Bareos have any built-in checks to verify the validity and
reliability of the on-disk backups it creates, that I could use as
ammo against these auditors and their evaluation?
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