How to verify backups?

[thoresson]

Hi!

What is the best ways to verify that backups? In my case they are sent to Wasabi using rsync if thats matter.

Thanks,
Anders

[d19dotca]

@thoresson The only real way to verify/validate your backups is to spin up a new server temporarily and do a dry-run restore to ensure it completes without issues.

[thoresson]

@d19dotca That was what I expected. Thanks for confirming.

[girish]

@thoresson For testing app backups, I recommend using clone . You can even use a test server and use import to test app backups.

For the full server backups, you have to do dry run test periodically.

It's in our plans to have some basic checksum in place so we can atleast validate that what Cloudron upload is what is present in the (remote) storage.

[thoresson]

@girish I just have one VPS at the moment. But it seems like I could use clone to try to restore the same app to another “instance” on the same server to verify the backups?

[girish]

@thoresson right. That will validate the app backups. App backups are complete and standalone, they don't rely on the box backups which i mention below . App backups are also portable across cloudrons installations.

To validate full server (box) backups (this has users, installed apps, other settings), you have to try on a new VPS. If you use the email functionality, that also has to be tested in a new VPS .

[thoresson]

@girish But as long as the app backups work, I can always configure a new Cloudron instance from scratch and restore the indivudal apps from the backups?

[girish]

@thoresson yes, exactly.