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My agent set up my backups, copies them to another building, and only speaks if they break

A man asked the AI to schedule daily backups of his agent folder with a careful keeping rule: three weeks of daily copies, four Saturday copies, and the first copy of each month. The AI also copies them to a storage server in a different building and runs a health check that alerts him only when something is failing.

How it works

  1. The AI schedules daily backups with the retention rule he set
  2. Copies go to a storage server in another building
  3. A check job tests that everything runs
  4. He hears about it only on failure

Why it’s worth knowing

The useful part is the silence rule. Backups that only speak when broken are the first ones people actually keep.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on reddit.com. See the original ↗

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