If you don't test, you will have a Schrödinger's backup: both valid and invalid at the same time, until you try a restore. On Dec 23, 2016 6:20 PM, "Alvin Starr via talk" <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
On 12/23/2016 02:59 PM, Stephen via talk wrote:
With the discussion about backups, I would like to raise a question I have had for some time.
Having backups does no good if you cannot restore them. Files are rather easy to test.
But how do you test restoring a database?
I back it up with the usual tool. I have the docs to do the restore.
But how to test to make sure that restoring works, without clobbering the active database?
Thank you
you can recover on a different machine or start a second instance of the database on different ports. This is the kind of place where virtualization or containerization comes in handy.
Testing your backups is always a good idea.
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