I have an Vmware vsphere environment with 3 vlans, Prod,Test and Dev. The client has 6 SQL servers within the production environment and wants to make full,differential and transactional log backups.
My question is, I have defined the backup processes with schedules and everything but I don't know how to safely implement a restore process.
Do you need a separate environment to test the backups? The client is worried to restore anything within the same network that could cause conflicts within the production servers.
