[GTALUG] Testing Restore of mySQL Database

Mauro Souza thoriumbr at gmail.com
Fri Dec 23 15:15:17 EST 2016


Restore on another database? Or in a virtual machine? Or in a container?

On Dec 23, 2016 6:08 PM, "Dave Cramer via talk" <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:

> back it up on another machine
>
> Dave Cramer
>
> On 23 December 2016 at 14:59, Stephen via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
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>> 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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