I'd like to set up a system to test all our database backups. My plan is a dedicated server that would cycle through our backups and test them by restoring and running dbcc checkdb etc. It would raise an email alert if there was a problem. The server would not be serving up data to anyone.
We have several spare SQL licenses from our developers' MSDN subscriptions. Would an MSDN license cover this server or does this count as a production server? (I thought of the Express edition but some of our databases are too big.) Please advise. Thanks.