A green backup dashboard tells you nothing. Only a restore tells you anything.
'Backup completed successfully' means the job ran, not that the data is good. Half-corrupt archives, missing tables, and unreadable encryption keys all report green.
The only real test is restoring to a throwaway box and watching it boot.
— Monitoring: confirms the job ran
— Restore drill: confirms you can actually come back
Untested backups are Schrödinger's data: simultaneously safe and worthless until you try. Most of you have never tried. Fight me.
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A green backup dashboard tells you nothing. Only a restore tells you anything.
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