Aligning Data Recovery with Infrastructure as Code Principles
Commvault Blog, Friday, May 8th, 2026
Clumio Backtrack enables in-place data recovery that preserves Terraform state and prevents infrastructure drift.
Traditional restore workflows create infrastructure drift in Terraform-managed environments by provisioning new resources outside of state, complicating recovery during incidents.
Clumio Backtrack addresses this by restoring data directly into existing AWS resources like S3 buckets and DynamoDB tables, preserving resource identity and keeping Terraform state aligned with declared configurations.
This approach eliminates the need for manual resource imports, endpoint rewiring, and state reconciliation that typically occur during high-pressure recovery events. For platform teams managing production infrastructure through Terraform, in-place recovery is particularly valuable for high-throughput workloads and complex environments where maintaining configuration integrity is critical.
The article emphasizes that recovery design is as important as backup design for teams operating infrastructure as code.