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Backup and recovery planner
Describe your systems. Get how much loss you can take, a backup plan and a restore drill to run.
Backup and recovery planner is a free AI skill for the job "Set up AI to work for you". Give the instructions to an AI assistant that supports the required files and tools, then review its output.
Free · No account · MIT licence · Made by RampStack
Made by RampStack. See the original on GitHub; we copied it as it is, with its licence.
What it does
A plan for when your data is gone: how much you can lose, how fast you must be back and exactly how to restore. Describe your systems. The AI works through four questions. What must be recoverable? How much data loss is acceptable (RPO)? How much downtime is acceptable (RTO)? What kind of disaster are you planning for? It lists your data and sets targets for each tier. It checks or designs the backups and writes a step-by-step restore guide. Then it plans a drill so you know it works before you need it. It covers ransomware, deleted databases, host outages and bad deploys.
You give it
- A list of systems and where data lives
- Current backups, if any
- What downtime and data loss would hurt
- Team size and tools
- Codebase (optional)
You get
- Data inventory by importance
- RPO and RTO targets per tier
- A backup design or review
- A restore runbook and drill plan
Use it when
- You have backups but have never tried restoring one.
- Someone asked how long you'd be down if your database vanished.
- You are moving to a new platform and need a recovery plan.
- An incident showed gaps and you want them closed.
How to use it
- Add it to your AI once: download it and add the folder to Claude, ChatGPT or Codex as a skill.
- Ask for the job in your own words. Your AI opens the skill when it fits.