[GTALUG] Testing Restore of mySQL Database

[Alvin Starr]

On 12/23/2016 02:59 PM, Stephen via talk 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
>
you can recover on a different machine or start a second instance of the 
database on different ports.
This is the kind of place where virtualization or containerization comes 
in handy.

Testing your backups is always a good idea.

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