Thank you. To anyone viewing my answer as a guide: a backup by itself is not a continuity plan. There are other important areas such as setting recovery metric

Thank you. To anyone viewing my answer as a guide: a backup by itself is not a continuity plan. There are other important areas such as setting recovery metrics (RPO/RTO) and testing restores against those metrics. The world is rife with stories of unreadable backups and/or restorations that took days instead of hours.