Hello Everyone, For testing, we'd like to do a weekly automated restore on our standby hardware. The ideal way to do this would be to do an rsync-like restore.
This would: - do an integrity check on our backup server's contents, - bring the backup server's contents up to date, - transfer only the differences, minimizing bandwidth utilization - 'prime' the restore set for a fast emergency recovery. Our current restore would take roughly 3 days if we saturate our bandwidth. It would be a slow recovery and cause serious business downtime. We *could* replicate from our primary to our secondary, but this would not test the backups. Replicating then restoring randomized sets, files, directories, then comparing files with the originals (respecting normal modification with expected date/times as a reason for changes) might be our best option. It could be complex to test effectively though. An rsync-like restore could greatly simplify this kind of test. Is there such a feature? Is there a different method which people use to test their backups which I'm overlooking? Thanks, -Mike
