Every captured change carries its SHA-256-addressed content in BLOB_STORE. Restoring writes that content back to the original path — current file gets backed up to <path>.drift_restore_backup_<epoch> before overwrite.
| Target file | /var/www/vhosts/3dshawn.com/ptmatrix.3dshawn.com/report_abuse.cgi |
| Site | PTMatrix (ptmatrix.3dshawn.com) on local |
| Kind | local |
| Captured at | 2026-07-01 12:34:37 |
| Captured SHA | 8fc63b08d10445c1f0bbb874567e6007ae099ad81434bec85961a61f8bc88c01 |
| File present | yes |
| Size | 7013 bytes |
| Current SHA | 8fc63b08d104 |
| Same as captured? | yes -- no-op |
<target>.drift_restore_backup_<epoch>, writes the captured content, verifies SHA post-write.