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Create and rehearse a backup

Question

Can the application state be restored from this snapshot without touching live data?

What you need

A writable backup root with enough space. The default is a sibling of the live data root, not inside it.

Click path

  1. Choose Backup.
  2. Choose Create verified snapshot.
  3. Select the verified snapshot and inspect or verify it.
  4. Enter REHEARSE RESTORE exactly.
  5. Choose Rehearse selected snapshot.

What success looks like

The rehearsal restores into a disposable directory, opens the database at the expected migration revision, checks stored recording hashes, reports Passed, and cleans the copy.

What it does not prove

A same-machine rehearsal does not test loss of the entire disk or an inaccessible backup destination.

What gets saved

The .cwsnapshot remains; the rehearsal directory is removed only after validation succeeds.

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