diff --git a/src/__tests__/timezone-explicit-formatter-guard.test.ts b/src/__tests__/timezone-explicit-formatter-guard.test.ts
index 3e8f01d31..553a6a971 100644
--- a/src/__tests__/timezone-explicit-formatter-guard.test.ts
+++ b/src/__tests__/timezone-explicit-formatter-guard.test.ts
@@ -93,7 +93,18 @@ function bareFormatterSites(): Array<{ file: string; line: number }> {
       pattern.lastIndex = 0;
       for (let m = pattern.exec(source); m !== null; m = pattern.exec(source)) {
         const args = argumentList(source, m.index + m[0].length - 1);
-        if (args.includes("timeZone")) continue;
+        // The property, not the substring, and both ways of writing it.
+        //
+        // `timeZoneName: "short"` is a DISPLAY option — it appends "GMT+1" to
+        // the output and leaves the zone as the browser's. A plain substring
+        // check waves it through, and the result then looks MORE
+        // timezone-aware than a bare formatter while being exactly as wrong.
+        //
+        // The shorthand `{ timeZone }` is the common form in this tree (nine
+        // correct call sites use it), so a colon-only check would report all
+        // of them and the honest response would be to allowlist them — which
+        // is how a guard stops guarding.
+        if (/\btimeZone\s*(?::|,|\}|$)/m.test(args)) continue;
         hits.push({
           file,
           line: source.slice(0, m.index).split("\n").length,
@@ -144,6 +155,23 @@ describe("date formatters name the calendar they render in", () => {
     }
   });
 
+  it("does not accept timeZoneName as a substitute for timeZone", () => {
+    // `timeZoneName: "short"` appends "GMT+1" to the output and leaves the
+    // zone as the browser's. The first version of this guard tested for the
+    // substring "timeZone", which that satisfies — so a formatter that LOOKS
+    // more timezone-aware than a bare one sailed through while being exactly
+    // as wrong. An independent read found it; this pins it.
+    const property = /\btimeZone\s*(?::|,|\}|$)/m;
+    expect(property.test('{ hour: "2-digit", timeZoneName: "short" }')).toBe(
+      false,
+    );
+    expect(property.test('{ hour: "2-digit", timeZone: tz }')).toBe(true);
+    expect(property.test("{ timeZone : tz }")).toBe(true);
+    // The shorthand forms, which are what most of this tree actually writes.
+    expect(property.test("{ timeZone, year: 'numeric' }")).toBe(true);
+    expect(property.test("{ ...options, timeZone }")).toBe(true);
+  });
+
   it("carries no allowlist entry that no longer has a bare formatter", () => {
     // A stale exception is worse than none: it documents a decision about code
     // that has moved on, and it quietly covers whatever lands in that file next.
diff --git a/src/lib/export/backup-plan.ts b/src/lib/export/backup-plan.ts
index 11c908906..e65a4b572 100644
--- a/src/lib/export/backup-plan.ts
+++ b/src/lib/export/backup-plan.ts
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ export const DERIVED_MODELS: Readonly<Record<string, string>> = {
   DocumentContentIndex:
     "A search index over `InboundDocument` text; rebuilt by the indexer.",
   DocumentThumbnail:
-    "Rendered from the stored document bytes on demand, and those bytes are carried, so the picture rebuilds itself on first view.",
+    "Rendered from the stored document bytes on demand. Those bytes travel in a disaster-recovery payload, so the picture rebuilds itself on first view; a portable export carries metadata only, and there the thumbnail has nothing to rebuild from — but neither does the document, so nothing is lost that the export did not already disclose.",
   ArrivalReaction:
     "Derived from what changed since the last visit; recomputed per visit.",
   DismissedPriorityItem:
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ export const NOT_IN_BACKUP_MODELS: Readonly<Record<string, string>> = {
 
   // Ledgers whose meaning is local to the deployment.
   PushAttempt:
-    "A 90-day delivery ledger for this host's sends. It documents what happened here.",
+    "A 90-day delivery ledger for this host's sends, and since v1.33.1 also the anchor rows the reminder dedup writes under a sentinel channel. Both describe what this instance did; restoring either onto another host would assert sends it never made, and the dedup anchors would suppress reminders that host still owes.",
   AuditLog:
     "An append-only record of actions taken on this instance. Merging one instance's audit trail into another's would make the trail untrue.",
   CoachUsage: