Hello everyone,
Does anyone have a recommendation for testing cloud backups? Being in IT for 38 years I watched individual operating departments learn the hard way that the wrong time to learn backups don't work is when you really need to rely on them; restore them, only to find out they did not work. .
I have 2 C8 hubs and have the cloud backup service. BTW, this service has saved me multiple times.
My thought is to purchase a 3rd "test" hub and occasionally restore a cloud backup (from both hubs) to make sure they work. What I don't want to do is bring the hub up and affect the Z-Wave routing, hub mesh, or other aspects of the "Production: environment I don't even know about LOL.
My thought was to take the "test" hub to a friend's house. Perform the restore there but I don't know if this is viable to have the hub on a different subnet than the other two hubs?
If I were to take this approach I would most likely wait for the introduction of the next version of the hub, swap out the two C8 hubs and get three versions of the same hub. This is just so I am testing apples to apples so to speak.
On an unrelated note, based on my sloppy writing of some of my prior posts (my apologies) I have slowed down and tried to re-read this one but it seems I read what I "think" I wrote no matter how hard I try to proofread them (even using MS Word) as I did in my prior posts. So sorry.
Thanks for your time.
- Don