(from bitter experience): Also consider periodically taking the backup and spinning it up on a separate host/VM.

And then codifying those steps into a script, so that if the time ever comes, restoring from backups is less of a fire drill.

Add to your script the binary schema in case you ever need to use my tool it will make your life MUNCH simpler that reconstructing them by hand while fighting on multiple front to get your database back online...