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Why is an untested backup considered unreliable?
A backup file existing proves nothing about whether it can actually be restored successfully — corruption, format incompatibility, missing dependencies, or process errors can all silently make a backup unusable, which is only discovered (if ever) the first time someone actually tries to restore from it, ideally during a planned drill rather than a real emergency.
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