RestoreScout

RestoreScout is a web app (with a lightweight agent) that continuously validates database backups by performing automated, isolated restore tests on a schedule. Instead of trusting “backup succeeded” logs, it spins up ephemeral environments, restores the latest backup for supported databases (starting with PostgreSQL and MySQL), runs integrity checks and a small suite of user-defined smoke queries, then reports a clear pass/fail with time-to-restore and data freshness. It also detects common foot-guns: missing WAL/binlog segments, encryption key mismatches, permission issues, corrupted dumps, and restore steps that silently changed. Alerts go to Slack/PagerDuty with a runbook-style summary and the exact commands used. This is not a full backup vendor replacement; it’s a verification layer that sits on top of whatever you already use (S3, GCS, Azure Blob, pgBackRest, mysqldump, etc.).