Writing
Backup is a product
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A backup job that never restores is theater. Schedule the copy, then schedule the proof: restore to a cold host, measure RTO, and write the failure modes you found.
Across multi-site cloud services, consistency beats cleverness. One naming convention, one retention policy language, one place to see last-success timestamps.
When leadership asks “are we safe?”, answer with the last successful restore date — not the last successful dump.
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