Recovery

Worthless does not back up your .env file. Locking replaces the real key in .env with shard A (which looks like a real key) and stores shard B in the local database; if your .env is corrupted, deleted, or overwritten, Worthless cannot reconstruct it for you. Keep your own backup — a password manager, an encrypted secrets vault, or a private file kept outside the repo all work. If you have replacement bytes ready, worthless restore <path> reads them from stdin and writes them atomically to the target file (e.g. cat saved.env | worthless restore .env); this only restores file contents, it does not regenerate keys.