Demo brief

The backup job everyone assumes works.

Evidence-backed explanation of dump, compression, retention cleanup, and failure email behavior before ops relies on a restore plan.

What it doesExports and compresses database backup

Retention cleanup deletes old files after the dump.

What can breakSilent backup or deletion failure

Only the last command is checked for failure.

Safe pathTest restore and cleanup separately

Validate dump, gzip, retention path, and alert behavior.