Testing Restore From Backup: The Backup Nobody Ever Restored
Everyone has backups — almost nobody tests the restore. A first-person take: why "backup completed successfully" guarantees nothing; what RTO and RPO are and why you measure them; what actually breaks during a restore (corrupt archive, wrong point in time, drifted schema, foreign environment, secrets); how to run a restore drill; and why you should monitor the restore, not the backup job. With a breakdown of the GitLab 2017 incident.