Source mapping
Surviving evidence is found before a repair path is chosen, so recovery starts from fact rather than assumption.
Solutions
Recovery without historical fiction.
Evidence-led recovery, reconstruction, hardening and continuity for systems that must return from partial, damaged or superseded state.
Recovery and resilience
Recovery goes wrong when the archive gets promoted to authority. Lazarus separates surviving evidence, schema conformance, runtime reconstruction and promotion gates, so a system returns to service on what the evidence supports — and nothing more.
Reconstruction
Only what the evidence supports is rebuilt, so recovery does not quietly turn into invented history.
Conformance
Recovered state is tested against current contracts before it is trusted, and gaps are recorded rather than smoothed over.
Promotion gate
Recovered state stays held until acceptance passes, so promotion is a decision with a receipt, not a default.
Current Evidence
Reconstruction starts from identified surviving sources, not assumption.
Recovered state is tested against the contract it must satisfy before promotion.
Unverifiable state stays held rather than promoted as current authority.
Proof
Recovery should leave a receipt.
Lazarus records schema freeze, conformance gaps, reconstruction decisions and the evidence used to promote or hold recovered state, so a return to service is auditable rather than assumed.