I had a few customers who had no idea their backups were not running. Typically this is because of space-exhaustion, but sometimes this was because the backup schedule was not set, or it had become deactivated.

PHC on/after version 0.2-537 will now confirm that a backup was completed within 14 days; this value was chosen based on the recommendation that backups be done weekly, and the longest possible “staleness” of a backup is when the next backup is running: 7 days. Missing two backups is a critical concern. If a backup wasn’t scheduled, then there will be no backup logged; if a backup fails due to space, it will still be cause by not showing a completed backup. Either way, we can now catch when a portal service has no protective backup and is a risk to upgrading.