Backup and recovery

Nobody wants backups; they want restores. The distinction is not pedantic — organizations discover the difference during the only event that matters.

Recovery objectives and which processes must survive are set by operations:business-continuity-and-resilience. This skill delivers against them.

Coverage is where it fails first

Most backup gaps are things nobody thought to include: a database somebody stood up outside the standard process, configuration that only exists in a running system, data in a SaaS platform assumed to be the vendor's responsibility, or a developer's machine holding the only copy of something.

Reconcile backup coverage against the asset register from it-operations:it-asset-management on a cadence and treat the difference as a finding. An untested assumption of coverage is the normal state of affairs.