advancedNoSQL Production Best Practices — Backup, Monitoring, Security & RBAC
What's wrong with confirming a backup job 'succeeded' without ever testing a restore from it?
A backup job reporting success for months doesn't guarantee the resulting snapshot is actually restorable — corruption or format issues in the backup often go undetected until a restore is actually attempted, which is exactly the worst time to discover it, under pressure, during a real incident.
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