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Monitoring if the backup task succeeded is important but that’s tue easy part of ensuring it works.
A backup is only working if it can be restored. If you don’t test that you can restore it in case of disaster, you don’t really know if it’s working.
Yes, absolutely. Ideally there would be an automated check that runs periodically and alerts if things don’t work as expected.