Workflows · Backup restores

A production restore waits on the database owner.

CC8.1 evidence for a restore: the backup, the target, the named approver and reason, and the validation result read back.

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Example workflow. Execution requires a configured tool with provider permissions for this action; see the connection’s operation reference or bring your company tool to the demo.

Agent request

Restore backup orders-2026-08-28-0200 into production/orders

A restore can replace newer production data or write a backup into the wrong database.

Identity
recovery-agent · Data platform
Target
production/orders
Cost
Recorded agent cost
Evidence
Backup identifier, creation time, restore plan, and validation query

SOC 2 CC8.1

Sensitive: waits for a named approver.

CC8.1: Change management

Read-back

The restored database's row counts and the validation query result.

Receipt

The backup identifier and time, the restore plan, the Database owner's reason, the validation result, and the CC8.1 test it supports.

Policy decision

Production restores require the Database owner.

Approver

Database owner

Dex, raising a card that asks for approval

The action waits until this owner approves or denies it.

Approved

Tool call resumes

The backup tool restores the approved source to the recorded target and returns its result.

Denied

Tool call stays blocked

Dex, holding up a stop after an action was denied

The restore does not start and production data remains unchanged.

Execution order

The agent request stops before the connected tool runs.

  1. 01Recovery agent requests the restore
  2. 02Deixic checks the backup, target, evidence, and policy
  3. 03Database owner decides
  4. 04Connected backup tool returns the restore result
  5. 05Deixic reads the result back and attaches the receipt to the test

Activity history keeps the request, decision, cost, and result.

Keep the procedure for the next request.

Keep the policy and decision history, save the steps and evidence as a skill, and test changes on real sessions; an approval stays specific to its request.

Reusable skills · Tests and replay

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