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Backups

Engineering → Starbase → Backups. A backup is one zip file with everything that's the household's:

  • always: conversations, memories, the crew, tasks, missions, the audit log, settings, personas, mail accounts, saved keys and certificates;
  • if you tick them: files (Ops files, what apps were sent, avatars) and installed Modules (they can be large);
  • never: the voice files and AI models (they're downloaded again) or the logs.

Databases are copied whole, even while Starbase is busy.

Making them

  • Back up now, any time.
  • Or a schedule: every day or every week, at a time you pick, keeping the last N. Only Starbase's own backup files from this install are ever removed; nothing else in the folder is touched.
  • Where: another drive or a network share keeps them safe from a failed disk. Changing the folder takes the Captain's PIN, and it's checked writable first.

A scheduled backup missed while Starbase was off runs when it's back. One that fails tries again each hour and warns the Captain (Ship status, the bell).

Restoring

Restore (the Captain, at home, with the PIN) saves what's here first, then restarts Starbase and puts the backup back before anything opens. Everything about backups is in the audit log.