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backup-and-recovery
Design and operate a tested backup and disaster-recovery strategy — the 3-2-1 rule, RPO/RTO targets, full vs incremental vs differential, point-in-time recovery, encryption, offsite/immutable copies, retention, and the restore drills that prove a backup actually works.
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Overview
Backups exist to be restored. A backup you have never restored from is not a backup — it is an untested hypothesis. This skill is the deep reference for designing a recovery strategy that survives a real disaster: the rules, the numbers, the trade-offs, and the failure modes that turn "we have backups" into "we *had* backups." Heavy detail lives in references/; copy-paste material in examples/; a
What it covers
- The 3-2-1 rule (and its modern extensions)
- Backup types: full, incremental, differential
- Point-in-time recovery (PITR)
- Restore testing — the non-negotiable
- Encryption, offsite & immutability
- Retention & lifecycle
- Automate & monitor
- Backup types, chains, and point-in-time recovery