Back it up. Then prove you can restore it.

A backup you've never restored is a guess. Fill in your database and an offsite bucket and get a real backup script — dump, compress, push offsite, prune — the cron to run it, and the restore command most setups never write down.

The backup nobody tested

Everyone means to set up backups. The ones who do usually stop at the dump — a cron job writing a file to the same disk as the database it's protecting, which a single dead drive or a wiped server takes out along with the original. The offsite copy and, above all, the restore are the parts that get skipped, and they're the parts that matter when something actually goes wrong.

This generates all three: a real script that pushes a copy off the box, a schedule, and the restore command so you can test it today instead of discovering at 4am that your dumps don't import. Setting it up is the easy part. Knowing it ran, that the offsite copy landed, and that the restore still works — every day, across every database — is the part you don't want to be doing by hand.