Your backup job needs an alarm for SUCCESS, not just failure
Silent backups are the dangerous kind, the cron dies and nobody notices for months. Wire it up:
— Emit a heartbeat ping on every successful run to a dead-man's-switch service
— Alert when the ping is MISSING, not just when the job errors
— Check backup file SIZE, a 2KB "success" is a failure in disguise
— Verify the timestamp is fresh, not last week's leftover
— Route the alert somewhere you actually read, not a dead inbox
No news from your backup job is not good news. Change my mind.
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Your backup job needs an alarm for SUCCESS, not just failure
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