Sorry if already asked, but how do you test the backup without affecting production? VM isolated is enough or you need hardware real?
Automation question: how do you test your backups actually work?
quinnbizz
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HasanIce said:
VM isolated is enough or you need hardware real?
Already covered above. VM is sufficient for integrity test. Hardware real only matters if you suspect hardware-specific issue, like restoring to different architecture ARM vs x86, or testing bare metal recovery with drivers.
For cloud VPS to cloud VPS, VM test is fine.
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