MajorLinux
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Captures the majorlab incident where the backup watchdog emailed a missing heartbeat after a kernel-update reboot wiped /var/run, even though the backup had actually completed cleanly. Documents the tmpfs root cause and the fix of storing heartbeats under /var/lib instead. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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