The way back: restore, and copies that leave the building

We shipped backups and told you honestly that restoring wasn't ready yet. It is now — and we took the extra time for a reason. Restoring is the single most dangerous thing a control panel can do: it overwrites the present with the past. Get it wrong and you've turned a small problem into a big one.

Look before you leap

Click Restore… next to any backup and MAESTRO opens the archive and shows you what's actually inside — which folders, whether your databases are in there, how old it is. No restoring blind, no hoping.

Then you choose how much to put back: everything, files only, or databases only. That distinction matters more than it sounds — often you want yesterday's database with today's code, or the other way round.

The safety net nobody else gives you

Here's the part we're proud of: before restoring anything, MAESTRO takes a fresh snapshot of how things are right now. Automatically, every time. So if you restore the wrong backup, or realise the old version was worse, there is still a way back. You are never standing on the last rung.

It's the same instinct as the firewall's 60-second undo: a powerful action is only friendly if it's reversible.

Copies that leave the building

A backup sitting on the same machine it's protecting isn't really a backup. If that server is lost — hardware, hosting account, a very bad afternoon — the backups go with it.

So MAESTRO can now send encrypted copies to another server you control, automatically, after every backup. You give it a destination, it hands you a key to paste at the other end, and from then on it just happens. The archives are encrypted before they ever leave, so the destination never sees your data.

One honest warning, in bold

Those copies are encrypted with a passphrase kept in your Vault — and the panel says this loudly: save that passphrase somewhere else too. If the machine is ever lost, it's what opens your offsite backups. A copy you can't decrypt is the same as no copy at all, and we'd rather nag you today than watch you find out later.

Backups are about the bad day. This is the whole path through it: a copy that exists, a copy that's elsewhere, and a way back that doesn't burn the bridge behind you.

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