Best practice for testing VM/Hyper-V backups

[Jos2h]

Hey,

 

We have everything but our file storage running as Hyper-V VMs, we do both file backups and VMs backups on and offsite and this works fine, but when it comes to testing backup integrity we have a bit of an issue with the VM backups. Although we can restore the vhd/vhdx files and the config settings from the backups, we can't run them to test the file integrity as it would cause a conflict on the network and domain.

 

How do people get around this?

 

thanks,

 

Josh

[manc_techie]

If you have a VHD of your DC spin up Hyper-V on a none domain connected PC with a private network setup using a loopback adaptor. That's how I do it here

[DrCheese]

Do you use veeam? Veeam has "Surebackup" that automatically mounts & tests the backup on a spare host.