The backup you skipped last Tuesday is the one you'll need next Monday. There's a ritual every backend developer knows all too well. It's 11 PM. Production is down. The database is corrupted, overwritten, or simply gone. You scramble through your notes, SSH into the server, and realize the last backup you actually tested was three weeks ago — if at all. Manual database backup is not a workflow. It's a liability. The Real Cost of "Good Enough" Backup Workflows Most teams fall into one of three traps: The Cron Script Trap. Someone wrote a bash one-liner, dropped it in cron, and declared victory. Two problems: nobody checks if it ran. Nobody checks if the output is valid. A corrupt .sql.gz sitting silently on a server is not a backup — it's a false sense of security. The Semi-Automatic Trap.…