A key part of operating any safe and reliable system is ensuring that there is a way to recover deleted or lost data in a prompt and consistent way. One key part of that is to maintain automatic backups that are recoverable and verifiable. This is a quick and easy way to accomplish that goal, by using existing pieces of infrastructure that are common in production networks. There are countless ways to perform a backup, this is simply one of the “easiest” given these ingredients are available.