hermes-skills/skills/devops/disaster-recovery-audit/references/memory-consolidation-dr.md

Hermes Memory Auto-Consolidation — DR / Restore Procedure

Component: hermes-consolidate.sh + hermes-consolidate.py Schedule: every 10 min (Hermes cron, no_agent) Last reviewed: July 9, 2026 — Network Services Team (Backup Specialist)

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What it does

Every 10 minutes:

1. Dumps MEMORY.md to JSON
2. Uploads backup to S3 FIRST (aborts prune on failure)
3. Prunes stale entries
4. Keeps local timestamped copies for 48h

Safety guarantees

• Backup-before-prune: upload to S3 is a hard gate
• Never writes empty file
• Atomic write via os.replace()
• Protected entries never pruned

Restore procedures

See full document at /root/.hermes/cache/documents/doc_498756c88128_memory-consolidation-dr-sanitized.md