A 15-minute weekly backup health check (simple checklist)

This is the quick “Friday checklist” that keeps backups honest.

Monitoring dashboard

  • Job failures: anything red? investigate and re-run
  • RPO drift: are jobs meeting their schedule?
  • Backup storage: capacity and growth trend
  • Retention: confirm old restore points aren’t being purged too aggressively
  • Offsite: last successful sync time
  • Restore test queue: pick one system to test next week

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