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  1. 3 July 2026·3 min read

    A backup you haven't restored is a rumour

    Backup jobs report success every night for years — and none of those green ticks proves the one thing backups exist for. The only receipt is a restore drill: files pulled from the repository, checked, and running. Here's the discipline, and the failure it caught.

    • backups
    • disaster-recovery
    • kubernetes
    • restic
    • homelab
jonny@bztmon:~ · session receipt✓ Synced · Healthy

$ whoami

Jonathon Wright— Platform & Infrastructure Engineer

$ traceroute www.bztmon.com

served from a homelab Kubernetes cluster, over an encrypted tunnel

$ git log -1 --format=receipt

HEAD ac333e2· built 2026-07-14 08:44Z· reconciled by ArgoCD

$ contact --priority low-ms

ping me on LinkedIn or email — everything else is best-effort delivery.

$

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