When appropriate, this is why I adore full-disk, bootable system backups. Plug a backup drive in, spot-check the contents (e.g. by data priority), run a filesystem compare tool, boot from it, etc. Backup is easy, as is restore and testing. A booted backup drive can restore to a replaced system drive.
That's obviously not the right solution for many IT-centric backup needs, but when full-disk backup became cheap and easy it set a new standard in how I think about backup and restore process everywhere.
That's obviously not the right solution for many IT-centric backup needs, but when full-disk backup became cheap and easy it set a new standard in how I think about backup and restore process everywhere.