# Recovery Validation Checklist

Version: 1.0.0

## Infrastructure

- [ ] Required nodes, network paths, storage, DNS, and certificates are healthy.
- [ ] Only the intended primary or writable data path accepts writes.
- [ ] Monitoring, logging, backups, and archival jobs resumed.
- [ ] No unexplained capacity or filesystem pressure remains.

## Data

- [ ] Recovered point is documented.
- [ ] Data loss is measured against the agreed RPO.
- [ ] Backup, WAL, snapshot, or archive objects were verified.
- [ ] Consistency checks completed without unexplained errors.
- [ ] Replica recovery is progressing.

## Application

- [ ] Readiness and health endpoints succeed.
- [ ] Error rate and p95/p99 latency returned to the expected range.
- [ ] Authentication and dependency calls work.
- [ ] Queues drain without duplicate processing.
- [ ] Logs contain no repeated recovery-specific failure.

## Business

- [ ] A real user can authenticate.
- [ ] The critical transaction completes.
- [ ] The business owner accepts the recovered point.
- [ ] Customer impact is confirmed as falling.

## Evidence

- [ ] Commands and output are timestamped.
- [ ] Detection, decision, recovery, and validation times are recorded.
- [ ] RPO and RTO results are recorded.
- [ ] Remaining risks have owners and deadlines.
- [ ] The next drill date is scheduled.