<b>A manual backup is a backup you will stop doing in three weeks. Guaranteed.</b>

<b>A manual backup is a backup you will stop doing in three weeks. Guaranteed.</b>
Every 'I'll just run a dump before I touch prod' ends the same way: the one night you skip it is the night everything burns.
Human discipline is the least reliable component in any backup chain. You get busy, you forget, you assume last week's copy is fine.
If a backup depends on a person remembering, it's not a system, it's a vibe.
Automate it, alert on failure, and verify it runs — or accept that your real backup cadence is 'whenever I felt like it.' Fight me in the comments.