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- Sep 30, 2026 The key to the lifeboat was on the ship A few weeks ago, in Launching the lifeboat, I wrote that every backup in the fleet now gets restored for real once a week, and that the keys and env files, saved nowhere before, now go off the box nightly, encrypted. Both of those are still true. This week the content planner joined the fleet, and… infrastructure
- Sep 3, 2026 Launching the lifeboat An earlier note built the backups but never restored one. Since then bosun-x runs every backup through a real restore once a week, into a throwaway database with no network and no name, and counts what comes back. Any database can be put back from a button that dumps the old contents first, so the move is reversible. The recovery order is written down. And the keys and env files, saved nowhere before, now go off the box nightly, encrypted. infrastructure · control
- Sep 1, 2026 A lifeboat for every hull Every project I run has a git remote, so the code survives a dead machine. The databases, uploaded files and secrets do not. This is the backup system I built into bosun-x in a day. bosun-x owns the config; a separate agent holds the credentials and does the dumps; the sensitive one is encrypted; and one screen shows whether every project has a current copy off the box. infrastructure · control