Docs for backups

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Adds docs for backups explaining how they're created, how they're structured, how to download them, and a short description of how to restore a backup into a self-hosted instance (with a link to the self-hosted docs).

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Walkthrough

Added an Instant backups documentation page for access, archive contents, sensitive data, restoration, and CLI commands. Added the page to the Instant features documentation navigation.

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Backup documentation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Backup access and archive structure client/www/app/docs/backups/page.md, client/www/data/docsNavigation.js	Documents nightly backups, dashboard and CLI access, archive contents, entity formats, file storage, and sensitive-data handling. Adds the Backups navigation link.
Self-hosted restoration client/www/app/docs/backups/page.md	Documents self-hosted restoration steps, deployment superuser configuration, and OAuth client-secret updates.
Backup CLI reference client/www/app/docs/backups/page.md	Documents commands for listing backups, JSON output, interactive or targeted downloads, output paths, app selection, and help flags.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Possibly related PRs

• instantdb/instant#2824: Introduces the backup functionality described by this documentation.
• instantdb/instant#2837: Implements the backup CLI and platform download features documented here.
• instantdb/instant#2857: Covers related backup restoration and superuser guidance.

Suggested reviewers: stopachka

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely identifies the main change: adding backup documentation.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description accurately summarizes the backup documentation, download guidance, and self-hosted restoration information.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Actionable comments posted: 2

🧹 Nitpick comments (1)

client/www/components/docs/Fence.jsx (1)

131-131: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Use the Tailwind CSS v4 important-modifier syntax. Tailwind CSS v4.1.17 supports the prefix form for backward compatibility but deprecates it. Replace !mt-0 and !rounded-t-none with mt-0! and rounded-t-none!.

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In `@client/www/components/docs/Fence.jsx` at line 131, Update the className
template in Fence to use Tailwind CSS v4 important-modifier suffix syntax:
replace !mt-0 with mt-0! and !rounded-t-none with rounded-t-none!, preserving
the existing conditional styling and all other classes.

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Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
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Inline comments:
In `@client/www/app/docs/backups/page.md`:
- Line 63: Replace the real-looking email value in the backup example with the
synthetic address user@example.com, while leaving the rest of the example
unchanged.
- Around line 8-10: Update the backup retention documentation around the “last 7
days” statement to explicitly identify those as automatic backups, then add that
manual backups default to a 30-day retention period. Preserve the existing
dashboard and CLI access information.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@client/www/components/docs/Fence.jsx`:
- Line 131: Update the className template in Fence to use Tailwind CSS v4
important-modifier suffix syntax: replace !mt-0 with mt-0! and !rounded-t-none
with rounded-t-none!, preserving the existing conditional styling and all other
classes.

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[nezaj]

LGTM!