Recover files from a live app before a restart
Save files that were written outside persistent storage before the next deploy or restart removes them. Tokay lets you browse the filesystem of the running Service and copy the files into durable Saved storage.
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Rescue the exact files you see
You can recover uploads, a SQLite database, generated reports, or other live files without shell access or container copy commands. Open the running Service filesystem, find the path, and copy the files into Saved storage, where they survive later deploys and restarts.
Tokay guards the copy against an instance change. If the running instance is replaced between browsing and copying, the operation fails rather than returning a file from a different instance.
Make the next deployment safe
Once the files are secure, mark their directory as persistent so new writes survive automatically. Tokay detects paths the app writes to and suggests them during setup. /tokay/data is always available for durable application files.
Deployments use a fresh copy of the application, which keeps versions and rollbacks predictable. Files outside a persistent directory belong to that disposable copy.
See files and persistent storage for the storage model.
Your AI agent can perform the recovery
A coding agent like Claude Code or Codex can list the live files through Tokay's GraphQL API, copy the important ones into Saved storage with the instance guard, download a user copy when needed, and mark the directory persistent before the next deployment.
Point your agent to app.tokay.io/llms.txt for the deployment protocol.
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