Operational best practices
Habits that keep Acrynite backups trustworthy and recoverable over time.
- Preserve physical backups together with their matching WAL archives.
- Do not treat a base backup as a complete point-in-time recovery chain.
- Test restore procedures regularly.
- Use a separate target for logical restore.
- Keep credentials out of source control and shell history.
- Verify PostgreSQL compatibility before recovery.
- Restrict access to backup storage.
- Define recovery objectives using real restore-test results.