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