intermediate · self-paced
Backup Planning Studio
4 weeks · 4–6 hrs/week
Backups fail quietly. You will design policies, execute restores against sample dumps, and write verification steps that survive staff turnover.
What ships in this outline
- Restore drills with checksum validation
- Encryption at rest and key rotation checklist
- Tabletop exercises for partial restores
- Template for quarterly drill calendar
- Mentor review of your written policy
Outcomes
- Produce RPO/RTO targets with explicit trade-offs stated
- Complete a timed restore within the lab window
- List three silent failure modes your org should monitor
Lead mentor
Priya Nishimura
Operations coordinator; ex DBA for a healthcare integrator.
FAQ
We use pg_dump/pg_restore patterns; you adapt naming to your stack.
We reference Japan APPI themes at a high level; legal sign-off remains your responsibility.
Object storage lifecycle rules are discussed but not configured for every cloud.
Experience notes
“Our quarterly drill doc was two bullets. Now it is six pages — still readable. Finance signed off faster.”