Lesson 4 — Planning and executing backups in CD environments

Prerequisites and goals

Prerequisites

Theoretical prerequisites

This lesson assumes that you already know the following:

  • Understand backup strategies and redundancy principles
  • Learn data integrity verification methods
  • Master backup scheduling and retention policies
  • Study disaster recovery planning approaches

Practical prerequisites

Before you start this lesson, please have the following things ready:

  • Implement automated backup procedures for TYPO3
  • Configure data redundancy systems across environments
  • Set up backup verification and testing
  • Create disaster recovery procedures

Goals

Theoretical goals

By the end of this lesson, you should know the following:

  • Understand backup integration with deployment workflows
  • Learn automated backup verification methods
  • Master backup restoration testing procedures
  • Study backup performance optimization techniques

Practical goals

By the end of this lesson, you should have completed the following:

  • Integrate backups into CI/CD pipelines
  • Implement automated backup verification systems
  • Configure backup restoration testing procedures
  • Optimize backup processes for performance

Learning resources

Teacher's instructions

Student's instructions