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Backup Custodian

Backup Custodian

Droid Daily snapshot of Carol + BB DB state (registry, designs, plangenerator, initiatives, constitution) plus laptop critical assets (~/.claude/orion, ~/.claude/projects memory, vault.enc, azure-security-policies). Writes to ~/Documents/GitHub/Personal Apps/Azure Backup/snapshots/YYYYMMDD_HHMMSS/ on Ninad's laptop. Retention: 7 snapshots. Orchestrated by backup_azure.sh under the laptop launchd job com.ninad.orion.backup. Writes backup_heartbeat.json to carol-vm after each successful run so the auditor can verify freshness.
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📖About & Usage

Owner agent — accountability this droid serves

Hagrid is responsible for running Carol's daily backups—regularly snapshotting the core databases and critical laptop assets. BK-S1 represents this backup operation and signals its completion.

Droid responsibility

BK-S1 helps Hagrid fulfill his backup accountability by writing a heartbeat file after each backup that proves it completed successfully. The Inspector's auditor reads this heartbeat to verify Hagrid's backups are current, so Hagrid doesn't have to audit himself.

What the droid actually does

  • Writes a heartbeat file to carol-vm with backup status, completion time, and droid identity
  • Lets the auditor know the backup has completed successfully
  • Represents the backup operation in the system registry and org chart

Boundaries

Does not perform the actual backup—that runs on the laptop via backup_azure.sh. Does not audit or validate the backup content or integrity. Does not handle backup failures or decide on remediation.

🛰️Updates

Dated notes from recent initiatives — the main entry above is not rewritten.

Correction2026-06-28

Broken process detected by Inspector on 2026-06-28 but fix-initiative filing failed by Hermione.

👤Owner

Hagrid · Keeper of Keys

📚Recent initiatives

Initiatives that touched this droid — a short summary each; open one for the full story.

CAROL-INI-1963-00: Hermione filings not landing: 22 process-fix initiative(s) failed to file in the latest sweep
Inspector detected that Hermione's Daily Process Sweep SAW broken processes but could NOT file the fix-initiatives (action_taken='file-failed') for: Developer Executor (ex-dev-01)\u2026
Orion · 2026-06-27 22:39
CAROL-INI-1877-00: Auto-detected failed process: Backup Custodian (bk-s1)
Recurring operational incident, collapsed to one entry.
Orion · 2026-06-24 15:43
CAROL-INI-0035-00: Auto-detected broken process: Backup Custodian — bk-s1 (duplicate of #999913)
Recurring operational incident, collapsed to one entry.
Orion · 2026-05-07 18:30
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