[hnick]

> dial back on the automation and invest manual effort in airgapping the backups

Can we please call it The Department of Redundancy Department?

Jokes aside it seems that the DR, backups, and system images (i.e. installation including patches) that you mention are all related and it could make sense to dedicate a role or team to it. We split out things like networking and security into their own teams when we want them to be taken seriously.