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How to Test Backups

In my experience, larger companies tend to have this down. A lot of people, I think there's a lot of especially smaller companies startups that either have never tested a backup or did it once as like a one of only just trust our deus and that's it. You need to test restore. And here we usually like very simple trick, you need to dump it fully to the dev now, causing rees of all data data files. But not indexes, by the way, right? This is a very good approach just to cause reading of all files. It might take a long time. While this you need to pay cloud for these resources. The source consumption is significant here,

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