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What's your backup strategy?
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How do you approach testing your backups? It seems like you shouldn't just restore it to the various applications because if it fails then you're screwed. But it also seems like a huge pain to create duplicate instances of every application to test the backup.
I do restore my VMs to deplicate VMs to test from time to time (it's pretty easy with Proxmox) but I use Restic for data backups which encrypts the data before uploading it, so one should restore a backup to a different folder to ensure the data integrity and that you didn't forget your keys ahah
You don't have to do it every week or month, but it's worth doing it a few times a year or when you change something!