---
title: "Disaster recovery - Deplo"
description: "Three things to keep: the instance secret, a database dump and the recovery keys. Lose the panel's machine, install Deplo on a new one, restore those, and the agents reconnect because they trust a certificate authority derived from the same secret."
url: "https://deplo.build/features/disaster-recovery"
image: "https://deplo.build/api/media/file/disaster-recovery.webp"
updated: "2026-09-06"
---

# Disaster recovery

Three things to keep: the instance secret, a database dump and the recovery keys. Lose the panel's machine, install Deplo on a new one, restore those, and the agents reconnect because they trust a certificate authority derived from the same secret.

![Disaster recovery](https://deplo.build/api/media/file/disaster-recovery.webp)

## Why it matters

Your apps keep serving throughout. Losing a machine is a bad afternoon, not the end, and the order to restore things in is written down.

[Learn more](https://deplo.build/docs/operations/disaster-recovery#a-ten-minute-drill-worth-doing)

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