Validating backups

You can validate a backup to verify that you can recover the data. For more information about this operation, refer to Validation.

This functionality is available in customer tenants for which the Advanced Backup – Servers or the Advanced Backup – NAS quota is enabled as part of the Advanced Backup pack.

To validate a backup

  1. Select the backed-up workload.
  2. Click Recovery.

  3. Select a recovery point. Note that recovery points are filtered by location.

    If the workload is offline, the recovery points are not displayed. Do any of the following:

    • If the backup location is cloud or shared storage (that is, other agents can access it), click Select machine, select a target workload that is online, and then select a recovery point.
    • Select a recovery point on the Backup storage tab. For more information about the backups there, refer to The Backup storage tab.
  4. Click the gear icon, and then click Validate.
  5. Select the agent that will perform the validation.
  6. Select the validation method.
  7. If the backup is encrypted, provide the encryption password.
  8. Click Start.