Re: testing recovery

From: Robert Freeman <robertgfreeman_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 18:55:15 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <1316051715.73951.yint-ygo-j2me_at_web113205.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>



I believe you have it!!

On Wed Sep 14th, 2011 5:20 PM EDT Jared Still wrote:

>On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Robert Freeman <robertgfreeman_at_yahoo.com>wrote:
>> While I agree that the use of restore validate is a good practice, I would
>> strongly disagree that it takes the place of actual restore testing. This is
>> true with respect to DR or non-DR.
>>
>> I say this for several reasons:
>>
>>
>To summarize this it appears you are saying the following:
>
>1) restore validate proves you have a good backup
>2) restoring the backup proves that you can restore it if needed.
>
>
>Jared Still
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