Backups Don't Save You. Restores Do.
We ran a MongoDB restore drill last quarter. It failed — not the restore itself, but the confidence. Nobody in the room was sure the data was actually intact. The service came back up, and we all just stared at each other.
That was the problem. So we fixed it by automating everything.
One Jenkins job now provisions infra, builds the replica set, restores from dumps, validates data integrity, and stores a full audit trail. Here's exactly how it works.
The Goal
