RE: Testing backups ...

Dirk Moolman wrote >My company wants me to test my backups once a month, to verify that they still work and can be restored. >How many of you currently do this ? Any good tips ? >We use IDS7.31FD3, on Solaris 9, and the backups are done using ontape (for Informix), >and ufsdumps for Unix (filesystems) >Dirk Our developers are always asking for a cut of live, so we now have an automatic process - A backup of all live servers is sent to us once a week. We restore them to a dev box We run de-personalisation routines on the data The data is then available for any one who wants it. This gives a real restore weekly, and if the worse ever happended we know where there is a fully tested backup a maximum of a week old. Colin Bull ________________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned for all known viruses by the MessageLabs Email Security System. ________________________________________________________________________ sending to informix-list