diff --git a/docs/operations.md b/docs/operations.md
index d696e2c..60fbf30 100644
--- a/docs/operations.md
+++ b/docs/operations.md
@@ -705,7 +705,10 @@ Restic snapshot identifier, verification time, and `restore_verified: true`;
 it contains no database rows, account identifiers, recipient addresses, or
 credentials. A failed backup or failed restore never advances the heartbeat.
 
-Install the daily user-systemd timer only after one manual `run` succeeds:
+Install the daily user-systemd timer on the operator workstation only after one
+manual `run` succeeds. The production host does not run this timer. The
+workstation connects to production for the source dump and publishes the
+restore-verified heartbeat to the independent repository host:
 
 ```bash
 ./scripts/install-production-backup-timer.sh
diff --git a/docs/verification.md b/docs/verification.md
index 69e87e9..70acc59 100644
--- a/docs/verification.md
+++ b/docs/verification.md
@@ -3217,3 +3217,51 @@ promoted.
   Mailpit containers remained healthy and public readiness remained `ready`.
   The remote repository, Caddy, production release, and frozen-test deployment
   were unchanged.
+
+# 2026-08-21 backup schedule and current production read-only load
+
+- The operator workstation's user-systemd timer
+  `who-need-help-production-backup.timer` was loaded, enabled, active, and
+  waiting. It last triggered at 00:00 EEST on 21 August and is scheduled to
+  trigger again at 00:00 EEST on 22 August. The production host has no backup
+  timer or service. This matches the reviewed design: the workstation obtains
+  the source dump over SSH, sends the encrypted Restic snapshot to the separate
+  BuyVM host, and publishes the restore-verified heartbeat there.
+- The scheduled service exited `0/SUCCESS` after 4 minutes 48.415 seconds. It
+  measured 2.294 seconds of local CPU time and a 50.8 MiB local memory peak.
+  PostgreSQL dump, checksum, catalogue, full repository data check, and the
+  isolated restore drill passed. The completed snapshot identifier is
+  `afdb5c5caa1df84203fc261817a153ade57d133a9102c501db10befc48fc4b77`.
+- The independent monitor uses the operator-selected stale-heartbeat threshold
+  of 129600 seconds, or 36 hours. The current monitor state was `up`, with
+  readiness, metrics, and backup freshness all passing. This threshold does not
+  define retention, RPO, RTO, capacity, ownership, or encryption-key custody.
+- A current read-only production load probe targeted exact revision
+  `bb7eb58c8f14d8936cae0e968b50ae721516d213` on the 2-CPU, 4,004,224-KiB host.
+  For 60 seconds it ran 20 HTTP virtual users against the fixed public GET
+  allow-list and 20 Phoenix WebSocket virtual users sending only heartbeat
+  frames. It performed 11,464 HTTP requests with zero failed checks and opened
+  20 of 20 sockets with 40 heartbeat replies and zero socket errors. HTTP
+  duration averaged 54.11 ms, p95 was 73.85 ms, and the maximum was 607.87 ms.
+- During that probe, application-container CPU averaged 51.53% and peaked at
+  58.29%. Container memory peaked at 207,827,763 bytes. Host available memory
+  remained at or above 1,352,896 KiB. Readiness returned the exact ready payload
+  before and after the run. Counts for users, user tokens, and rate-limit
+  buckets remained `[16, 7, 20]`; PostgreSQL reported no new rollback, temporary
+  file, temporary byte, or deadlock count.
+- This is a public read-only regression measurement, not a representative pilot
+  traffic model. It does not cover request creation, assignments, chat writes,
+  location updates, authentication delivery, support submission, push
+  delivery, or SMTP. No capacity limit or scaling threshold is inferred from
+  it. The non-secret evidence is retained under
+  `output/performance/production-current-bb7eb58-20260821/`.
+- A headed production browser check reused the existing authenticated Chrome
+  session. The account menu exposed the expected Account settings route. The
+  route redirected to the reauthentication screen and displayed the explicit
+  message that reauthentication is required. No account setting was changed and
+  no new authentication email was requested.
+- Current production metrics exposed bounded purpose labels rather than email
+  addresses. The observed process reported two successful
+  `support_confirmation` deliveries, two successful `mail` queue jobs, and no
+  delivery exception in the selected metric set. These counters describe only
+  the current application process, not historical delivery volume.