Nightly Backups Run. Are You Actually Covered?
Automated backups have run for months. A teammate says you are fully covered for disasters. Defend whether you agree.
the decision you defend
Your team set up automated nightly database backups months ago. A teammate says we are fully covered if anything goes wrong. Do you agree, and what would you check?
the situation
Your team configured automated nightly database backups several months ago. They have been running ever since, and the backup job reports success in the logs every night.
context
The backups are written to a folder on the same server that runs the database. No one has ever performed a restore from them. A teammate says there is nothing to worry about because backups are running, so the team is fully covered.
How this challenge works
Take a position on the decision above and defend it. A senior-engineer AI will push back over up to 4 rounds. When you are done, you are scored against a verified rubric so you can see exactly what a complete answer covers - these are learning prompts, not gotchas.