PrecisionWP / Play · Forty-Two Percent

When did you last restore a backup?

Two minutes of arcade. Claim the disk before the timeouts catch your trail. Leave the database behind and the whole backup is worthless.
Arcade · Area capture · 2 minutes · No signup · Works on a phone

How to play

You are a backup process. Three rules, three chasers.

The rules

01

Cut into the dark

Leave your edge. Draw a line across empty grid.
02

Close the loop

Touch your edge again. Everything inside is yours.
03

Guard the trail

An open trail can be cut. One hit ends the run.

The chasers

Timeout

Bounces off everything. Fast and dumb.

OOM

Hunts the open trail behind you.

Watchdog

Walks your claimed edge, forever.

Why this game exists

A backup that finished is not a backup you can restore.

You can win Forty-Two Percent and still lose. Claim the amber media block, leave the blue DB block sitting in the dark, hit the target, and the end screen tells you the truth: the job completed, and the one thing you would actually need back was never in it. Real backups fail in exactly that quiet way, and nobody finds out until the restore.

What BackupEase does about it

Every chaser in the game is a real failure we had to design around.

In the game Timeout

Chunked processing

Work is split into pieces that finish inside your host’s execution limit, then picks up where it stopped. Long jobs stop being a gamble on the PHP timeout.
In the game OOM

Adaptive intensity

Memory use is measured while the job runs. When it climbs, BackupEase slows itself down before the host kills the process.
In the game DB left in the dark

Restore check

Walks your claimed edge, forever.

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