[capableweb]

> like making backups before undergoing production work

The specific part you mention also brings up a really vital part of a backup system, testing that the backups generated actually can restored.

I've seen so many companies with untested recovery procedures where most of the time they just state something like "Of course the built-in backup mechanism work, if it didn't, it wouldn't be much of a backup, would it? Haha" while never actually tried to recover from it.

Although, to be fair, I've only seen one time out of the untested 10s where it had an actual impact and the backups actually didn't work, but the morale hit that the company ended up having made my brain really remember the fact to test your backups.