[GTALUG] Testing Restore of mySQL Database

Dave Cramer davecramer at gmail.com
Fri Dec 23 15:08:07 EST 2016


back it up on another machine

Dave Cramer

On 23 December 2016 at 14:59, Stephen via talk <talk at gtalug.org> 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
>
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