before it dies?? wow. I know everything has a lifespan but. Mine will have been running 2yrs Oct, this guy just hit 6yr anniversary. and yes, you’ll find several post from users with early death.
I do know it does have a copy, how often it’s [re]created is unclear beyond reboot. Just wild speculation, maybe during maintenance mode. I do know Backup-tablo.sh - Backup all recorded shows from a Tablo backs it up as well - but it does everything. It’s just kind of by chance, it backs it.