Everything your assistant knows lives on the appliance in your house — your documents, your preferences, the habits it has learned. That is the point of the product, and it raises a fair question: what happens if the hardware fails, or you move to a new unit?
Backup means a copy you control. Your system can write a complete snapshot of its memory — the documents you have given it, its settings, what it has learned about how you like things done — to a drive you own or a location you choose. Nothing about a backup leaves your control, because the copy is yours the same way the original is.
Restore means nothing is lost. Point a new or repaired unit at your backup and it comes back knowing what it knew — the same files, the same preferences, the same working relationship. You do not start over; you pick up where you left off.
When to back up. Before a software refresh, before a move, and on a schedule if your assistant carries things you would mind losing. Managed Private AI members get scheduled backups checked as part of monthly health checks — it is one of the quiet things the plan does so you never think about it.
If you want help setting a backup routine, an Expert Session covers it in one scoped hour, or it is covered while Managed Private AI is running — three months included with every system, and the first year with Private Suite and the Limited 16GB Release. Your box, your files, your copy — that is how owning your AI is supposed to work.