testing a restore on a copy instead of the live site is the part most people skip, and it’s the only way to know a backup is real. one thing worth checking on the copy: that the database and uploads both came back and you can actually log in, not just that the homepage loads. (cloudways team here, so biased) on-demand backups of an app’s files and database plus a staging clone are built in on our side, but the habit matters more than the tool. do you also time the restore so you know the worst-case recovery time?