Implemented database backups and a disaster‑recovery strategy backed by infrastructure‑as‑code for fast, reproducible recovery.

Situation. A product that lives on its data can’t afford to lose any, and “there are backups somewhere” is a hope, not a recovery plan. The only backup worth having is one you know restores, into an environment you know you can rebuild. NextMariner needed both halves of that, not just the first.

Task. Recovery had to be guaranteed — the data and the environment around it — quickly, and in a way that could actually be reproduced rather than improvised on a bad day.

Action. The database is backed up with retention configured, so a restore can go to a point in time rather than just to last night. The environment around it is defined as infrastructure‑as‑code in Bicep, which is the quiet half people forget: restoring a database into an environment you’d have to rebuild by hand from memory isn’t really recovery. Because both pieces are covered, getting back means restoring data into an environment that stands up from its templates — a procedure, not a scramble.

Result. The data is recoverable and the platform can be brought back quickly, which turned disaster recovery from a nagging background worry into something with defined steps. For a young company that mattered as much psychologically as technically: a failure would be a bad day you recover from, not the kind of thing that ends the product.