Next steps

Start by evaluating, implementing, and testing your backup and recovery approach in a non-production environment. It is important to test your recovery process thoroughly and to validate that your restored workloads are operating as expected.

Test the restore process for a single component in your architecture in addition to all components in your architecture. Validate the recovery time for each. Also validate the impact of your backup and restore process on upstream and downstream dependencies. Confirm the impact of any service outage on your upstream dependencies and confirm the downstream impact on your backups.