Metadata in GitHub, record data in approved storage
Salesforce metadata and Salesforce record data have different risk, retention, and recovery requirements. They should not be treated as one backup artifact.
Resources
Why the first Salesforce-to-GitHub connection should be a dev org
A development-org pilot lets the team learn repository structure, authorization, retrieval behavior, and workflow failures before production access is involved.
What a nightly Salesforce metadata snapshot actually gives you
A nightly metadata commit is not magic backup software. It is a durable change history that makes drift, repeated edits, and surprise production work visible.
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