0.16.70
16 October 2026Whole-server backups, and a weekly drill that restores each server on the backup server and boots it.
Added
- Whole server backup preset. Everything on the disk except /proc, /sys, /run, scratch space and package caches, plus database dumps: what a server is rebuilt from.
- Weekly recovery drill that boots each server. The backup server restores each server's newest whole-server backup, checks it is a working system, boots it with no network, measures the restore and projects the time to be back on a fresh server, then deletes the copy.
- Can each server come back? on the Backups page. Last backup, last drill, its verdict in words, the projected time back on a fresh server, and Drill now.
Upgrading
Switch backup policies to Whole server once the backup server has room (Move to volume and Grow from 0.16.69). Allow scripts for the backup server on Host access: the drill runs there.

