DR
"Our backup job succeeds every day." Are we safe?
Whether the candidate separates the backup from the restore, and connects both to a recovery objective and an actual procedure.
The situation behind the question
A nightly
pg_dump writes to a bucket in the same cloud account as the database. The dashboard has been green for 400 days. The database has grown from 40 GB to 1.2 TB in that time, and the runbook for restoring is a Slack message from 2023.