I’ve gotten very close — not deleting everything, but a nice large collection. Even worse, in the production database, not the development one…. Somehow it all went wrong while writing tests intended for the development database, and a collection was deleted in the production version. Luckily, this time we were able to restore the damage before chaos erupted, but next time, well….

We’ll use Cloud Functions for the backups — another approach is with GitHub Actions or GitLab CI to regularly run the backups, but in this tutorial we only need the native Google products.

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