backup-job-health

# Backup Job Health ## Overview "Backups are running" is the single most-assumed, least-verified fact in an MSP's environment. A backup job that failed silently three nights ago looks identical, from a distance, to one that's been succeeding for months — nobody notices until a restore is needed and there's nothing current to restore from. This skill is the recurring, portfolio-wide sweep that catches that gap before it becomes an incident: job success/ failure rate, missed-backup detection, and storage-consumption trending, rolled into one normalized view across every backup and BCDR tool an org has connected. This skill is about whether backups are *happening*. It is deliberately narrower than disaster-recovery readiness as a whole — it does not assess whether a backup, once taken, is actually recoverable (see `restore-test-verification`), and it does not assess whether the retention window or cadence in place actually satisfies a contracted requirement (see `retention-rpo-compliance`). Treat this as the first, most frequent layer of the DR assurance stack: if jobs aren't running, nothing downstream matters yet. ## Anti-triggers - **Backup Radar's own health records** — ScalePad already aggregates and scores backup results across vendors; use `scalepad-backup-radar` when the question is what that API returns. This skill normalizes across every connected backup tool, including orgs that have no Backup Radar at all. - **One platform's job, alert, or storage data** —...