esh-pfi-infrastructure/persistent-memory.d/2026-09-22-backup-coverage-is-a-property-of-the-system-never-one-job-s.md

[2026-09-22] Backup coverage is a property of the SYSTEM, never one job's scope

Backup coverage is a property of the SYSTEM, never one job's scope — establish it by querying the repo for the path in a real snapshot, never by reading a job's SRC=. A peer read dev-backup alone and told the operator, unhedged, that Miranda's conversation had "never been backed up"; all five paths were in that night's restic snapshot. docs/runbooks/backups.md.