diff --git a/02-DECISIONS/0214-backups-guard-against-mistakes-and-stay-on-the-machine.md b/02-DECISIONS/0214-backups-guard-against-mistakes-and-stay-on-the-machine.md
index 2e8401f..68d9ca1 100644
--- a/02-DECISIONS/0214-backups-guard-against-mistakes-and-stay-on-the-machine.md
+++ b/02-DECISIONS/0214-backups-guard-against-mistakes-and-stay-on-the-machine.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 topic: what runs on it
-status: proposed
+status: accepted
 date: 2026-10-05
 deciders: jochen
 reconstructed: false
diff --git a/02-DECISIONS/README.md b/02-DECISIONS/README.md
index 5e93289..39eb267 100644
--- a/02-DECISIONS/README.md
+++ b/02-DECISIONS/README.md
@@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ python3 00-META/checks/index.py            fail if stale
 - **0209** — [A login on a node moves that node to the account it logged in to; an API key is added from any node, sealed](0209-a-login-on-a-node-moves-that-node-to-its-account-and-an-api-key-is-added-from-any-node-sealed.md)
 - **0211** — [A machine's power is a node seat, its moments take contributions, and its states are events](0211-a-machines-power-is-a-node-seat-its-moments-take-contributions-and-its-states-are-events.md)
 - **0213** — [The operator sets the agent's managed settings through the agent module, under the mesh's own keys](0213-the-operator-sets-the-agents-managed-settings-through-the-agent-module.md)
-- **0214** — [Backups guard against mistakes, stay on the machine, and are declared by the module that owns the data](0214-backups-guard-against-mistakes-and-stay-on-the-machine.md)  *(proposed)*
+- **0214** — [Backups guard against mistakes, stay on the machine, and are declared by the module that owns the data](0214-backups-guard-against-mistakes-and-stay-on-the-machine.md)
 
 ### How it is built
 
diff --git a/04-ISSUES/242-the-mesh-has-no-backups/00-report.md b/04-ISSUES/242-the-mesh-has-no-backups/00-report.md
index cc94588..247096f 100644
--- a/04-ISSUES/242-the-mesh-has-no-backups/00-report.md
+++ b/04-ISSUES/242-the-mesh-has-no-backups/00-report.md
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ nothing dropped; the mailboxes because they are files outside the database.
 
 **Mistakes, not disasters.** Backups protect against a dropped database, a deleted bucket, a bad
 migration — not against a dead disk or a lost site; that loss is accepted. So no off-site copy is
-needed, and questions 4's "spread across the mesh" and "encrypted to whom" fall away. Worked out in
+needed, and question 4's "spread across the mesh" and "encrypted to whom" fall away. Worked out in
 research 030; proposed as ADR 0214.
 
 ## Questions this must answer