{
  "id": "backup_replication",
  "label": "Backup Replication Canonical",
  "phase": "phase-13",
  "category": "backup_server_recovery_infrastructure",
  "status": "ACTIVE_DH_MIRROR",
  "purpose": "Backup Replication Canonical is the Phase 13 authority that moves verified backup payloads across the topology without losing manifest continuity or custody boundaries.",
  "function": "Replicate encrypted backup objects from primary to secondary and approved destinations with lag policy, route evidence, manifest continuity, idempotency, retry discipline and failure blocking.",
  "technology_requirements": [
    {
      "technology": "Backup Replication",
      "required_for": "Backup Replication Canonical is the Phase 13 authority that moves verified backup payloads across the topology without losing manifest continuity or custody boundaries.",
      "required_by_phase": "phase-13",
      "required_by_category": "backup_replication",
      "required_by_buckets": [
        "Prerequisites",
        "Installation",
        "Configuration",
        "Validation",
        "Observable Evidence",
        "Failure Modes & Recovery",
        "Completion & Promotion"
      ],
      "expected_version": "MISSING until Backup Replication is implemented and validated in the future Execution & Monitoring Panel",
      "validation_command": "MISSING until backup_replication can prove scope, evidence, execution state and promotion decision",
      "evidence_path": "/home/yeff/public_html/devon/canon/execution/state/dh_sources/backup_replication.json",
      "status_source": "Documentation Hub + future Execution & Monitoring Panel",
      "blocking_if_missing": true,
      "failure_impact": "If this gate fails, Devon can have multiple copies that cannot be trusted as the same recoverable object."
    }
  ],
  "depends_on": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "overview": {
    "summary": "Backup Replication Canonical is the Phase 13 authority that moves verified backup payloads across the topology without losing manifest continuity or custody boundaries.",
    "function": "FUNCTION: Replicate encrypted backup objects from primary to secondary and approved destinations with lag policy, route evidence, manifest continuity, idempotency, retry discipline and failure blocking.",
    "system_position": "This category owns movement between backup destinations. It is not manifest creation and not restore validation. The exclusive risk here is copying without continuity: replication may move bytes while losing manifest relation, lag visibility or key-custody provenance.",
    "failure_impact": "If this gate fails, Devon can have multiple copies that cannot be trusted as the same recoverable object."
  },
  "failure_impact": "If this gate fails, Devon can have multiple copies that cannot be trusted as the same recoverable object."
}