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bakelite keeps a continuous copy of your SQLite database that you can restore to any moment you've captured — on local disk or any S3-compatible bucket. Every commit's copied as it happens, so what's backed up is your latest state, not last night's snapshot.

Point it at one database or every database on the box; it watches each one's WAL and ships changes as they commit. Unix-only for now (macOS, Linux).

Day to day you'll really only use two commands: one to run the daemon, one to restore. There's more in the box if you want it — at-rest encryption, a verify --deep that does a full restore drill, doctor pre-flight checks, multi-destination fan-out, a Prometheus /metrics endpoint — but none of it's required to get a safe backup.

bakelite is young: 0.1.0, and I've only run it on my own machines so far. New here? Install & deploy gets you running, and How it works covers the design and how restores are proven correct.

• Install & deploy
  Install via Homebrew on macOS, or the apt repo / one-line script / container on Linux, then run under launchd or systemd.
• Recipes
  Curated starter configs for the common scenarios — and the bakelite init wizard that fills them in.
• Configuration
  The TOML config, section by section: defaults, databases, database groups, backends, and the daemon.
• Backends
  Supported storage backends and the cross-backend compatibility matrix.
• Backup swarm
  Let a fleet of machines back each other up over an encrypted peer-to-peer mesh — no bucket, no bill, no third party.
• CLI reference
  The bakelite subcommands and their flags.
• Operations & disaster recovery
  Run bakelite in production: enable the daemon and the health timers, alert on the right thresholds, and recover a lost database with a boring checklist.
• Restore
  Point-in-time restore: targets, integrity checks, and safe swaps.
• Versioning & compatibility
  How bakelite versions itself across upgrades, and what happens when an older binary meets a newer replica.
• Changelog
  What changed in each bakelite release.
• How it works
  What bakelite does under the hood — and how its torture harness proves every restore is a real, correct point-in-time.