BACKUP AND RESTORE VALIDATION

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for receiving a request to generate a backup of a distributed computing system; generating, by each of the plurality of components of the distributed computing system, one or more backup artifacts; generating, by each of the plurality of components of the distributed computing system, verification data, the verification data being metadata about the contents of the generated backup artifacts; obtaining a second request to validate the backup; provisioning a restore environment; processing the plurality of backup artifacts to restore the plurality of components in the provisioned restore environment; performing a verification process using respective verification data for the restored component, wherein each verification process determines whether contents of the restored component matches the respective verification data for the restored component; and outputting a result of the verification process.