SysAdmin Weekly

064 - Backup and Recovery in 2026: Why Boring Backups Win

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Your backups should be boring: hardware you know, a copy that lives somewhere else, at least one copy nobody can change, and a restore test that proves the whole thing works.

Andy Syrewicze and Eric Siron go back to basics on backup and recovery for 2026. They build the inventory, including the switch configs and firewall policies nobody thinks to protect, get honest RPO and RTO answers by…