{"id":199,"date":"2026-01-17T09:46:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T17:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rainier-it.com\/blog\/?p=199"},"modified":"2026-01-17T09:46:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T17:46:43","slug":"%e2%98%95-saturday-morning-coffee-it-tips-%e2%98%95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rainier-it.com\/blog\/%e2%98%95-saturday-morning-coffee-it-tips-%e2%98%95\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2615 Saturday Morning Coffee &amp; IT Tips \u2615"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Happy Saturday, South Pierce County! \ud83c\udfd4\ufe0f<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Quick question: <strong>When was the last time you tested your backup?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m serious. When was the last time you actually tried to <strong>RESTORE<\/strong> something?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because here\u2019s the terrifying truth: <strong>40% of businesses that test their backups find out they don&#8217;t actually work.<\/strong> Imagine finding that out <em>after<\/em> your data is already gone. \ud83d\ude31<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>\ud83d\udee0\ufe0f This Weekend\u2019s Free IT Tip:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are using:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>External hard drives<\/strong> \ud83d\udcbe \u2192 Test a restore this weekend.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Cloud backup<\/strong> \u2601\ufe0f \u2192 Check the logs to ensure it\u2019s actually running.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>&#8220;I think we&#8217;re backing up?&#8221;<\/strong> \ud83e\udd14 \u2192 You\u2019re probably not.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>It takes 15 minutes today. It could save your entire business tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Don&#8217;t have a backup strategy? <a href=\"\/contact.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"\/contact.html\">Let\u2019s fix that.<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Have a great weekend! (And maybe test that backup&#8230; \ud83d\ude09)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>~ Christopher<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Saturday, South Pierce County! \ud83c\udfd4\ufe0f Quick question: When was the last time you tested your backup? I\u2019m serious. When was the last time you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[32,33],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-best-practices","tag-backup","tag-saturday-morning-coffee-it-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rainier-it.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rainier-it.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rainier-it.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rainier-it.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rainier-it.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rainier-it.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200,"href":"https:\/\/rainier-it.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions\/200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rainier-it.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rainier-it.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rainier-it.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rainier-it.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}