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@@ -89,6 +89,12 @@ relicario list
 # Sync with your git remote
 relicario sync
 
+# Pack the vault into a single encrypted backup file
+relicario backup export -o vault.relbak
+
+# Print a recovery QR for your image_secret (see "Recovery" below)
+relicario recovery-qr generate
+
 # Generate a random password
 relicario generate -l 32
 ```
@@ -108,6 +114,25 @@ The embedding survives:
 
 This means your reference image can live on your Instagram, your personal website, or anywhere else. It's useless without your passphrase.
 
+## Recovery: what if I lose my reference image?
+
+Without your reference image, the vault is undecryptable — that's the security model. But it also makes a lost or corrupted image a single point of failure.
+
+The mitigation is the **recovery QR**: a printable QR code that wraps your image secret behind a separate recovery passphrase you choose. If you ever lose access to the reference JPEG, scan or transcribe the QR, provide the recovery passphrase, and recover the 256-bit image secret. Combined with your normal vault passphrase, this restores access to the vault.
+
+```bash
+# Print a recovery QR (after the vault is unlocked).
+# You'll be prompted for a separate recovery passphrase.
+relicario recovery-qr generate
+
+# Recover the image_secret from a stored QR payload.
+relicario recovery-qr unwrap
+```
+
+The QR payload is an XChaCha20-Poly1305 envelope keyed by Argon2id over a domain-separated input (prefixed with `b"relicario-recovery-v1\0"`), so even if you reuse your vault passphrase as your recovery passphrase, the wrap key cannot collide with a vault master key. Both salt and nonce are freshly randomized per call, so two QRs printed from the same passphrase yield different bytes — the printed copy doesn't leak whether you've printed others.
+
+Recommended practice: print the QR, store it offline (safe, deposit box), and forget about it. The recovery passphrase is what protects the printed copy from being useful to someone who finds it.
+
 ## Architecture
 
 ```
@@ -122,6 +147,8 @@ relicario/
 │   │   ├── settings.rs  # VaultSettings (retention, generator defaults, caps)
 │   │   ├── backup.rs    # `.relbak` encrypted-backup envelope
 │   │   ├── device.rs    # ed25519 device keys + revocation entries
+│   │   ├── recovery_qr.rs # Paper-printable image_secret backup (XChaCha20-Poly1305 + Argon2id)
+│   │   ├── import_lastpass.rs # LastPass CSV → typed items
 │   │   └── vault.rs     # Encrypt/decrypt items, manifest, settings
 │   ├── relicario-cli/      # CLI binary: filesystem, git, terminal I/O
 │   ├── relicario-wasm/     # Thin wasm-bindgen wrapper for the browser extension
@@ -206,6 +233,7 @@ The binary is at `target/release/relicario`.
 - [x] Typed items: Login, SecureNote, Identity, Card, Key, Document, TOTP
 - [x] Secure document storage (encrypted file attachments)
 - [x] Backup & restore (`.relbak` encrypted envelope)
+- [x] Recovery QR (paper-printable image_secret backup with separate passphrase)
 - [x] LastPass CSV import
 - [x] Device authentication (ed25519 commit signing + pre-receive hook)
 - [ ] Import from Bitwarden / 1Password