While the customer may have access, you’re all but guaranteed they aren’t ever going to verify it. Most backups aren’t meant to be verified on external systems, and testing the backup would generally require actually restoring it somewhere.
That said, some systems do have external tools to verify backups, but it’s not universal.
Shouldn’t they have access to the backup location as well so that they can verify that it’s fine?
Forcing the client to manually verify the integrity of backups each time is a bad user experiemce
I know it sounds weird, but they would probably do it every time
They the customer? I think you’re overly optimistic about people. They the company my kid works for? Yeah, they have remote access to everything.
While the customer may have access, you’re all but guaranteed they aren’t ever going to verify it. Most backups aren’t meant to be verified on external systems, and testing the backup would generally require actually restoring it somewhere.
That said, some systems do have external tools to verify backups, but it’s not universal.