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# Backup and Restore Drills

- Type: recovery verification practice
- Group: Operations and risks
- Placement: Operations / Incidents and recovery
- [Source](<https://sre.google/sre-book/data-integrity/>)

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Regularly restore from backups, checking data integrity and the actual recovery time.

## Relationships

- supports recovery after: [Database Change Management / Migrations](/practices/dbmigration/en.md) (support)
- may complement: [Chaos Engineering](/practices/chaos/en.md) (combination)
- checks applicability of: [Runbooks / Operational Playbooks](/practices/runbooks/en.md) (verification)

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