How do you know your last backup will actually work when disaster hits? Most teams trust that "backup succeeded" means recovery is guaranteed. But the only way to prove your backup works is to restore it. RestoreCtl automates restore drills, spins up an isolated environment, validates the restored database, and generates signed reports proving your backups are recoverable. No agents to deploy and no hosted control plane.

Hi everyone. I'm a DevOps engineer, and RestoreCtl started from a question that kept bothering me: How do you know your last backup will actually work when disaster hits? Most teams (including teams I've worked with) treat "backup succeeded" as proof that recovery is guaranteed. But anyone who has handled real incidents knows that's not enough. Restores can fail, data can be incomplete, and you often don't discover the problem until you need the backup most. The operational rule is simple: the only way to prove a backup works is to restore it. I built RestoreCtl to automate PostgreSQL restore drills, validate the restored database, and generate signed reports that provide concrete proof your backups are recoverable. It runs entirely in your environment with no agents and no hosted control plane. We're currently onboarding a small number of pilot customers, and I'd love feedback from PostgreSQL, DevOps, and SRE teams. How does your team verify that backups will actually work when you need them most?