Testing your strategy

 

If your situation requires a medium save strategy or a complex save strategy, it requires regular review.

The regular review is as follows:

The best way to test your strategy for saving is to test a recovery. Although you can test a recovery on your own system, it is very risky. If you do not save everything successfully, you might lose information when you attempt to restore.

A number of organizations offer recovery testing as a service. Business continuity and resiliency is one organization that helps you with the recovery testing.

 

Parent topic:

Planning a backup and recovery strategy

Related concepts
Backup and recovery timeline