Mock Restore for Testing the Backups - Advice Please

[Daveed]

Hi, can anyone tell me the best way for doing a mock restore of the BESR Version 8 images we take. I have read through the manual and it says...

2 Boot your computer using the SRD.

3 When you have booted into the recovery environment, do one of the following:

■ If you want to store recovery points on a network, run a mock restore of a recovery point that is stored on a network to test the network connection.

■ If you want to store recovery points on the computer, run a mock restore of a recovery point that is stored locally to test the local hard-drive connection.

Is there meant to be an option on the Recovery disk for doing a test? Or would it be a case of doing it onto a different pc/server?

If anyone can advise on the best way for doing this, I would be most greatful.

Cheers

[AJT]

Hello Daveed,

  I believe you would need to restore to a volume for a non-system restore test and on a different server/PC than the original for a full system restore test.

Hope this helps

[David_F]

In addition you might want to consider restoring the images to virtual guest OS’s like those that can be created using VMware or Microsoft virtualization technology.