Tales From the Lobby

Care & keeping

Look after your Phone Brain, your backups, and the things your family wants to keep.

Backups: Plan for Spilled Coffee

A dead Phone Brain should mean replacing a computer—not losing your family’s phone setup. The important copy is the one you kept somewhere else.

Why saving an encrypted backup in the cloud is only half the job, and how to keep the private key you need to recover it.

Your Phone Brain lives at home. Your backups are sealed with your key. Here’s what that means for your family’s data.