Backup Automation
A backup you have not restored is a hypothesis. StackHeal coordinates the schedules, watches every outcome, chases the failures, and verifies that what you have can actually be restored — across whichever backup tools you already run.
Backup job outcomes
| Job | Window | Last 7 runs | Restore test |
|---|---|---|---|
| db-cluster-01 | 01:00 | Verified | |
| web-fleet | 02:15 | Verified | |
| object-store | 03:00 | Retrying | |
| mail-relay | 04:30 | Verified |
Benefits
Jobs across different tools, sites and tenants report into a single outcome view, so a gap is visible instead of buried in four consoles.
A failed job triggers a retry policy, notifies the right team, and stays open until it succeeds or someone decides otherwise.
Retention and rotation run as policy rather than as a per-job setting someone edited last year, and the resulting coverage is reportable.
Restore workflows are defined, test-restored on a schedule, and timed — so your recovery estimate comes from evidence rather than optimism.
How it works
StackHeal does not store your backups. It coordinates the systems that do, and holds them to the schedule you set.
Define windows, dependencies and priorities per asset class or tenant. StackHeal triggers your backup tooling and keeps overlapping jobs out of each other's way.
Every job's result is collected — success, warning, failure, missed window — and reconciled against what should have run.
Retry policies run with backoff. Repeated failures notify the owning team with the job history and the last error, not just an alert.
Retention policies are applied and audited, including the long-term copies you need to keep and the ones you need to be sure are gone.
Scheduled test restores confirm that a recovery point is usable, and record how long the restore took.
Example workflows
Backup work is mostly the same four conversations. These make them repeatable.
Trigger: Scheduled window per asset class
Trigger: Weekly or monthly rotation across protected assets
Trigger: Ticket requesting a file, database or full restore
Trigger: A machine is provisioned or discovered
About these examples
Compatibility
Systems connect through maintained connectors or through their own APIs and webhooks. Check the directory for each system's current status.
Controls
Restores are among the most destructive operations in an operations toolkit. They are gated accordingly.
The permission to run a backup is distinct from the permission to restore over live data.
Restores that overwrite production require a named approver, with the target and recovery point shown at approval time.
Job outcomes, retention decisions and restore runs are written to an append-only history.
Backup system credentials are held server-side in a secret store and never exposed to a workflow author or a model.
StackHeal products share one workflow engine, one action catalogue and one run history.
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