<div dir="auto">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. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 23, 2016 6:20 PM, "Alvin Starr via talk" <<a href="mailto:talk@gtalug.org">talk@gtalug.org</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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On 12/23/2016 02:59 PM, Stephen via talk wrote:<br>
<blockquote type="cite">With the discussion about backups, I would like to
raise a question I have had for some time.
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Having backups does no good if you cannot restore them. Files are
rather easy to test.
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But how do you test restoring a database?
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I back it up with the usual tool. I have the docs to do the
restore.
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But how to test to make sure that restoring works, without
clobbering the active database?
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Thank you
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you can recover on a different machine or start a second instance of
the database on different ports.<br>
This is the kind of place where virtualization or containerization
comes in handy.<br>
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Testing your backups is always a good idea.<br>
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