Recovery needs to recreate the working service and its required data after a machine or process is lost. Which artifacts and state need protection, and how should the restore be checked?

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Use logical dumps for suitable portability needs and physical backups plus WAL retention for point-in-time recovery. Preserve roles, extensions and configuration as required by the restore method. Run a restore test; a successful backup command does not prove that the application can use the restored database.

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