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thx1200
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May 09, 2022

DPM 2022 - Restore Test Strategy

I was disappointed to see DPM 2022 still does not include "boot from backup storage" features that are a staple amongst competitor products, like Veeam, Datto, Unitrends, etc.  Now that DPM 2022 has iSCSI mount point management for item-level replication, I'm surprised this wasn't added.  To me, more important than providing instant recovery of a VM (albeit in a reduced performance capacity), the biggest benefit of this feature is it allows instant backup verification of VMs.  These products will boot the VM in a sandbox, verify it's running and even run custom test scripts.  Then it just tosses out the test VM and reports the results.  Nothing beats a manual complete restore test, but this is a great daily check that goes above and beyond a simple consistency check.

 

So other than wishing for this feature, I'm wondering of the community has any strategies to automate daily/weekly restore tests for data integrity between the big annual/semiannual/quarterly restore test that we *ahem* should be doing?

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