Drill record review
Reviews backup identification, integrity, isolation, restore completion, data validation and application checks.
Day 046 / DevOps / Recovery
Backup Restore Checklist
/ Overview
A dependency-free Python CLI that reviews recorded restore-drill checks and highlights failed or unverified recovery steps.
A successful backup job does not establish that a restore drill was completed and validated. A small checklist can reveal missing review steps while keeping its claims limited to the evidence declarations supplied.
/ Provided servicesClear thinking.
Clear thinking.
Practical delivery.
Evidence-aware aggregation
A declared pass needs a boolean evidence-recorded flag; failures and gaps remain visible.
Minimal reporting
Emits fixed check labels and states without copying arbitrary notes or extra record fields.
/ Solution
Backup Restore Checklist reviews six fixed check IDs in a bounded local JSON record. Failed checks block completion; missing checks or passes without recorded evidence remain unverified. The report lists next checks and omits arbitrary notes. It does not inspect evidence, access backups, execute restores or independently prove recoverability.
/ Impact
Six fixed restore-drill checks
Pass, fail and unverified states
Evidence required for declared passes
Complete, incomplete and blocked roll-ups
Ordered next-check list
One-MiB input boundary
Text and JSON reports
Eleven standard-library tests
Python standard library
Argparse, pathlib and JSON provide a dependency-free local CLI.
Defensive validation
Rejects unsupported check IDs, invalid states and non-boolean evidence flags, with bounded file reads.
Unittest
Eleven tests cover completion, failures, missing evidence, privacy boundaries, input size and CLI JSON output.