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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Preserve remote state versions, configuration, lockfiles and the credentials or identity path needed to access them. State records resource bindings; it is not a backup of the databases or files those resources contain. Test recovery procedures separately for infrastructure state and application data.

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