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.

You can validate a backup to verify that you can recover the data.

When you validate a backup, you apply a validation method to a backup archive or backup location. Validation of a backup location validates all archives in this location.

To validate a backup as an off-host data processing operation, you must create a validation plan. For more information, see Creating a validation plan.

To validate a backup without creating a validation plan, follow the procedure in Validating backups.