Recovery needs to recreate the working service and its required data after a machine or process is lost. Which artifacts and state need protection, and how should the restore be checked?

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Preserve source, lockfiles, toolchain information and release artifacts. Application state stored outside the binary needs its own backup policy. If serialization formats are persisted, version them so a restored older binary can handle the data or fail with a clear compatibility error.

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