Uncle Marv's IT Business Podcast (Products, stories, and tips for the MSP and IT Professional)

Uncle Marv's IT Business Podcast (Products, stories, and ti…

The IT Business Podcast is a show for MSPs (Managed Service Providers) and IT Professionals providing business network support and managed services. Each episode delivers products, stories, and tips that help the MSP and IT Pro run the business better, smarter, and faster, covering everything from pricing and packaging to operations, tools, and service delivery. You’ll hear candid conversations with working MSP owners, system admins, vendors, and industry leaders who share what’s actually working in the field, including hard lessons, success stories, and the occasional “what not to do.” Topics regularly include managed services best practices, cybersecurity and compliance, Microsoft 365 and cloud, automation and documentation, vendor selection and stack building, plus the day-to-day realities of running a modern IT business. Hosted by longtime IT business owner and podcaster Marvin “Uncle Marv” Bee, the show blends real talk, practical advice, and a lighthearted tone so the MSP and IT Pro behind the network can learn, laugh, and get better every week.

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June 30, 2022

409 Don't Check Or Test Your Backups

A backup needs to be automated and require as little human involvement as is feasible. Follow this checklist of worst practices.

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In response to the show title being terrible advice. Here is some real things to put on your backup checklist.

Get Email Notifications: Whether you get them or your clients get them, you should choose to get documentation where a backup is successful or fails.
Check the Email: If you get the emails, someone should read them. Or at the very least, make Sure it doesn't go to the spam folder.
Test the backups: Just because you can see the file doesn't mean you can recover the file.
Don't ignore warnings: If you've read this far... send me an email and let me know what we left out.

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MSP owner turned MSP Vendor. In 2019 I sold my MSP and launched a backup solution powered by Comet. My company's only goal is to protect your client's data from disaster. We currently server over 230 MSPs and protect over 4100 devices.

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