Disaster recovery "drill" without Veeam Orchestrator

[BostjanUNIJA]

Hi guys.

Can you share your best practices how you are doing disaster recovery scenario "drills"?

1. One way is to check the integrity of your backups with Sure Backup functionality which is fine and helpful (setting proxy access to the team to check if the applications in the virtual lab from backup works as expected), but I still miss here the functionality in SureBackup that you would be able to pickup from backup job only specific virtual machines (I've heard that in 12.1 there will be some improvement that you will be able to decide which virtual machines would you like to test). Probably the alternative is to put all the desired virtual machines in application groups, right?


What your other best practices way to do the disaster recovery drill? If you really want to test the (real) RTO?
Do you use replicated VM's and turn them on an isolated networks?
Any other ways?

Thank you for your thoughts. Any comment is welcome.

With best regards

[haslund]

For item one, you are correct setting up application groups which just the VMs you would like to test is the way to go for now. Make sure to place them in the correct order in case of any dependencies.

You can also use SureBackup jobs with replicas and it does exactly as you mentioned, it temporarily puts them on an isolated network (inside the virtual lab).