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backup-verify

A tiny CI job that restores your backups into a scratch volume and diffs them. Trust, but verify.

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backupsci
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Superseded by a feature in compose-homelab-starter, but the standalone job still works if you want just the restore test.

The problem

A small, annoying task that was eating time and attention every week. We measured it before touching anything.

The approach

One focused change, reproducible, with a guardrail and an obvious way to turn it off. No magic, no vibes.

$ ./run --dry-run
[ ok ] plan looks sane
$ ./run --apply

The receipts

Before/after benchmarks, the failure modes we hit, and the tradeoffs we accepted. The repo has the full runbook.

Convinced? The repo is one command away.

git clone

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