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Validating and Testing Restores - Common practice and best practices

  • 4 October 2023
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PedroRocha
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Hello everyone!

 

This is a generic set of questions to understand and share information on what are you guys doing regarding restore validation and testing.

 

Any specific feature from Commvault that helps with that?

 

Running workflows to automate those tasks?

 

How often to run restore validation (validate only option).

 

Does anyone uses that Validate Restore workflow from the Commvault store?

 

Test restore using a subset from the whole universe?

 

Let's consider VMware, Windows FS, Linux FS, Oracle.

 

Regards!

Pedro

 

 

Pedro

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Damian Andre
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Definitely check out  App validation on VMs, which automates the validation process on VMs:
https://documentation.commvault.com/2023e/essential/111292_application_validation_for_vmware_vms.html

 

M
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Hello @PedroRocha,

 

The biggest hurdle to take here is that you cannot do scheduled restores in Command Center and since more and more can only be done from Command Center this is becoming a huge issue.

After asking for this feature it has been committed to in one of the next releases.

 

This should ease the problem you are trying to solve greatly.

 

What we generally do is have a few test systems that do nothing all day, but we do some mutations on them (database transactions, file creation/deletion) and then restore the state to see if it matches our expectations.

This is very tedious work, but so far the only way for us to know for sure backup+restore works.

 

Regards,

MIke

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