Matt The Horwood

That very much depends on your backup of choice, that’s also the point. How do you recover your backup?

Start with a manual recover a backup and unpack it, check import files open. Write down all the steps you did, how do you automate them.

Untill you test a backup it’s not complete, how you test it is up to you.

If you upload to a remote location, pull it down and unpack it. Check that you can open import files, if you can’t open it then the backup is not worth the dick space

There’s some really good options in this thread, just remember that whatever you pick. Unless you test your backups, they are as good as not existing.