You test your backup by recreating your system, either in a local environment or in some cheap simulated one.
It's even better if you write a manual with the steps you needed. And try to follow (and update it) when you do it again.
The article is talking about a local ban, pushing for it, and talking about other local bans.
It has been banned nationwide for decades. States do not have the authority to ban it. Cities do have authority, but the article isn't about cities and it would be redundant anyway.
So, overall, it's a political piece, pushing an entity that doesn't have the authority to ban the thing into banning something that has already been banned by a higher (on this case) authority for decades.
And yes, plenty of people still do it. Even outside of Rio (but it's way more common there). A serious article would talk a lot more about the police enforcing the ban, but then the author did notice that this just won't happen in Rio, for several practical reasons. So, why all the space pushing for something that is already there?
Everything past making a call is awful
Making a call doesn't work on a random browser selection that changes every time the thing is updated. It also takes about half a minute to complete a call. And the audio quality is significantly worse than in meetings.
And the most interesting, the brokeness doesn't apply to attending meetings. Those have completely independent broken cases.
Honestly, there isn't any single thing in Teams that just works properly.
I figure the most bang for my buck right now is to set up off-site backups to a cloud provider.
If you don't have the budget for on-premises backup, you almost certainly can't afford to restore the cloud backup if anything goes wrong.
Then I started reading about backing up databases
Go read the instructions for your database in particular. They are completely different from each other. Ignore generic instructions.
now I’m configuring a docker-db-backup container
What is perfectly fine. But I'd first look how this interferes with the budget you talked about earlier and if it wouldn't be better to keep things simpler and put the money on data replication.
Either way, if your budget is low, I'd focus a lot on making sure you have the data when you need to restore, and less on streamlining the restore procedure. (That seems to be the direction you are going, so yeah, I'd say it's good.) Just make sure to test the restore procedure once in a while.
If this is about the US, notice that they used to have intra-party elections as a strong cultural requirement before going into the main election. They only stopped requiring that very recently.