SKILL-013 Security, testing, and operations Locked skill

Backups and restore

A backup you have not RESTORED is a hope, not a backup. Define your RPO/RTO and test recovery on a schedule.

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What this skill helps you build

Automate backups of everything that matters — database, uploads, and config — and prove you can actually restore them.

The production takeaway

A backup you have not RESTORED is a hope, not a backup. Define your RPO/RTO and test recovery on a schedule.

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Inside this skill

The full skill expands these implementation areas with decisions, edge cases, prompts, tests, and framework-specific code.

Security, testing, and operations
What this helps you build

A backup and restore setup you can stake the business on: automated, off site, encrypted copies of everything that matters — your database, your user uploads, and your config/secre

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Security, testing, and operations
When to use this

The moment you have data you cannot regenerate. Concretely, set this up before launch if your app has any of: A primary database holding customer data, orders, or content User uplo

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Security, testing, and operations
The core idea

A backup you have not restored is a hope, not a backup. The act that protects you is not taking the backup — it is successfully restoring it. Until a restore has run end to end and

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