Test Restore Frequency

  • I was just wondering how often people schedule test restores.

    Daily (overkill), weekly, fortnightly, monthly, never(?!?!!)

    cheers

  • In my case: Only once, just after installation.

    I just assume that checking the backup logs should be sufficient.

    Should I be ashamed now?

    But every few months I get a request for a copy of the production databases and that is a kind of test restore.

  • Guess this depends on your environment.

    One of our customers schedules a big Disaster Recovery test each year. Takes backups (of the complete system), goes to the backup Data Center and re-installs the server on completely empty hardware.

    We (at our offices) only do a complete restore after installation. There is the occasional restore on the development machine as an additional test.

  • We recommend at least once a year and whenever any component of the backup process changes.

    --Jonathan



    --Jonathan

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