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Backfilling Missing Pipeline Data

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You're working on a data pipeline and discover that some historical data is missing because of an upstream outage, bad deployment, or delayed source delivery. You need a safe way to restore the missing records without corrupting downstream tables or double counting data.

Question

What strategies would you use to backfill missing data in a data pipeline?