The Backup Restore Trial: Prove Your Recovery Plan Actually Works

Backups are only promises until someone restores them. In this lab, teams receive a small service, a damaged data set, and several recovery paths with different tradeoffs. The task is to restore service, verify data integrity, and write the evidence trail.

The workshop covers recovery objectives, backup age, restore rehearsal, checksums, partial data loss, credentials, and communication. It is especially useful for teams that have backups configured but have never tested the full recovery path under pressure.