The canonical instance -- the one with her actual writing -- turned out
to be the least protected thing in the estate:
- No scheduled backup at all; the newest snapshot was a month old. Now
petal-backup.timer: VACUUM INTO, gzip, age-encrypt with the parodia
public recipient, push to the VPS over headscale with a size check,
prune both ends. Persistent=true because the box is not on 24/7.
Neither machine can decrypt what it holds; the identity is offline.
- Petal ran as a bare ./petal with PPID 1, so a crash or reboot left it
down until somebody noticed. Now petal.service, verified by kill -9.
- The Piper units retried forever without ever failing: RestartSec=3
against systemd's default 10s window means the burst limit is never
reached, which is how a dead service logged 26,800+ restarts over a
day while read-aloud silently fell back to browser speech.
StartLimitIntervalSec=300 makes a broken Piper show up in --failed.
backup-petal.sh now handles both deployment shapes (compose exec on the
VPS, local binary on millenia) and encrypts before anything leaves the
host. The VPS no longer uses it -- Petal rides parodia-backup there.
