Best way to recover from backups with plugins?

So you don’t need to be running exactly the same version that the backups has in order to restore it?
I had some error restoring and I thought it was due to versions not being the same.

Being able to review the discourse version, and plugins version of a backup prior to restore would be of help.

I am running Just one third party plugin: topic list preview.

I was able to restore the backup after several retries (without changing anything).
Oddly enough, one of them restore with no error.

I could see that I was not the only one having the problem: