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So, if I will follow best practices and will prepare backup, then restore backup locally (to check that backup is OK), then will play with backup until problem will be solved (to not harm target server), then prepare runbook, and then will just execute it at target server, I will pass your test? Just two commands.

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Yes. you should pass the test. This is one of the scenarios we are thinking. you get the backup location do the restore. done you passed.

I'm talking about copy-pasting of solution.

Ok. Maybe I misunderstood you. If you are thinking of having the tests leak and people just finding solutions on Google I'm just thinking of dynamically generating the problem. How about 3 characters missing from the config file for apache at random. You have to understand what is required and then try to fix it. Does this solve your case?

I had similar idea to your and found no solution to problem of copy-pasting. Good problem sets are hard to create but their solutions are easy to copy. Moreover, this is the good practice to try to solve solution locally, then copy-paste solution to target server.

I hope, you will find a solution for that.

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