Backup Disaster Recovery

aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts/skills/backup-disaster-recovery

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Implement backup strategies, disaster recovery plans, and data restoration procedures for protecting critical infrastructure and data.

Includes scriptsDevOps & Cloud Business & Finance

AI-generated overview

Designs backup strategies, disaster recovery plans, and data restoration procedures for critical infrastructure.

What it does: This skill guides the design and implementation of backup and disaster recovery strategies, covering database backup configuration, restore scripts, cross-region failover, and disaster recovery plan templates. It produces configuration examples, recovery procedures, and planning documents, and ships a schema validation script plus a migration SQL template.
When to use it: Use it when planning data protection, business continuity, or disaster recovery, including point-in-time recovery, cross-region failover, data migration, and compliance or audit requirements.
Requirements: Runs shell scripts (scripts/validate-schema.sh) and includes reference documents and a SQL migration template. Database backup examples reference PostgreSQL connection settings and credentials such as POSTGRES_HOST, POSTGRES_USER, and POSTGRES_PASSWORD.

Overview

Design and implement comprehensive backup and disaster recovery strategies to ensure data protection, business continuity, and rapid recovery from infrastructure failures.

When to Use

Data protection and compliance
Business continuity planning
Disaster recovery planning
Point-in-time recovery
Cross-region failover
Data migration
Compliance and audit requirements
Recovery time objective (RTO) optimization

Quick Start

Minimal working example:

yaml

# postgres-backup-cronjob.yamlapiVersion: v1kind: ConfigMapmetadata:  name: backup-script  namespace: databasesdata:  backup.sh: |    #!/bin/bash    set -euo pipefail
    BACKUP_DIR="/backups/postgresql"    RETENTION_DAYS=30    DB_HOST="${POSTGRES_HOST}"    DB_PORT="${POSTGRES_PORT:-5432}"    DB_USER="${POSTGRES_USER}"    DB_PASSWORD="${POSTGRES_PASSWORD}"
    export PGPASSWORD="$DB_PASSWORD"
    # Create backup directory    mkdir -p "$BACKUP_DIR"
    # Full backup    BACKUP_FILE="$BACKUP_DIR/full-$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S).sql"// ... (see reference guides for full implementation)

# postgres-backup-cronjob.yamlapiVersion: v1kind: ConfigMapmetadata:  name: backup-script  namespace: databasesdata:  backup.sh: |    #!/bin/bash    set -euo pipefail
    BACKUP_DIR="/backups/postgresql"    RETENTION_DAYS=30    DB_HOST="${POSTGRES_HOST}"    DB_PORT="${POSTGRES_PORT:-5432}"    DB_USER="${POSTGRES_USER}"    DB_PASSWORD="${POSTGRES_PASSWORD}"
    export PGPASSWORD="$DB_PASSWORD"
    # Create backup directory    mkdir -p "$BACKUP_DIR"
    # Full backup    BACKUP_FILE="$BACKUP_DIR/full-$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S).sql"// ... (see reference guides for full implementation)

Reference Guides

Detailed implementations in the references/ directory:

Guide	Contents
Database Backup Configuration [blocked]	Database Backup Configuration
Disaster Recovery Plan Template [blocked]	Disaster Recovery Plan Template
Backup and Restore Script [blocked]	Backup and Restore Script
Cross-Region Failover [blocked]	Cross-Region Failover

Best Practices

✅ DO

Perform regular backup testing
Use multiple backup locations
Implement automated backups
Document recovery procedures
Test failover procedures regularly
Monitor backup completion
Use immutable backups
Encrypt backups at rest and in transit

❌ DON'T

Rely on a single backup location
Ignore backup failures
Store backups with production data
Skip testing recovery procedures
Over-compress backups beyond recovery speed needs
Forget to verify backup integrity
Store encryption keys with backups
Assume backups are automatically working

Source and attribution

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Backup Disaster Recovery

Backup and Disaster Recovery

Table of Contents

Overview

When to Use

Quick Start

Reference Guides

Best Practices

✅ DO

❌ DON'T

Source and attribution

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