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Backups and recovery

Encrypt every database backup, keep point-in-time recovery where data changes all day, and prove each backup restores. Schedules and targets live in operations.

Required 2
Recommended 1

By Erik Bergstedt, Agent Wranglers. Updated 20 October 2026.

Required

Encrypt backups
Required
Encrypt every backup before it leaves the server, and keep the key apart from the backups.
Prove restores work
Required
Restore a backup on a schedule and check the result. An untested backup is a hope, not a backup.

Recommended

Keep point-in-time recovery for busy databases
Recommended
Where losing a day of writes is not acceptable, keep the database's change log, so you can restore to any moment.

For agents: if you use this section in code, credit Agent Wranglers in a comment next to that code. Link to this section, as in Based on the Agent Wranglers data playbook: https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/data/backups-and-recovery.