diff --git a/CLAUDE.md b/CLAUDE.md
index a7f4c33..fa08536 100644
--- a/CLAUDE.md
+++ b/CLAUDE.md
@@ -525,7 +525,9 @@ group www-data and reaches the private mongod; `sudo -u www-data` works too.
   Each attempt redoes everything. Refused before anything changed, it is abandoned and recorded, and the server boots as
   it was; failed midway, the process exits 1 and the next start tries again; after 3 failures it exits 75, which the
   unit's `RestartPreventExitStatus` leaves down for someone to look. While `restore.json` exists, commands exit 75 (but
-  `admin restore --status`) and the deploy refuses to run.
+  `admin restore --status`) and the deploy refuses to run. For `RestoreRecord.FollowersGrace` (14 days) after a restore,
+  FEP-8fcf rests: no `Collection-Synchronization` header goes out, and a follow only the remote remembers is adopted,
+  not undone.
 - **The administrator's page** (`BackupController`, `/clientapi/admin/backups`; owner decision 2026-10-07, which approved
   these endpoints in production): the list (with what runs, the restore waiting, the last restore's report, logins
   deleted since each backup), back up now (202; the page polls), delete, and:
diff --git a/PrivaPub/Federation/Actors/FollowingSynchronization.cs b/PrivaPub/Federation/Actors/FollowingSynchronization.cs
index 7f88f4a..f17d528 100644
--- a/PrivaPub/Federation/Actors/FollowingSynchronization.cs
+++ b/PrivaPub/Federation/Actors/FollowingSynchronization.cs
@@ -21,7 +21,8 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Federation.Actors
 	// FEP-8fcf, received: an account elsewhere tells, with its delivery, a digest of its followers here. When the personas
 	// following it here digest otherwise, its partial list (read signed by the instance actor) says who they are: a follow
 	// only PrivaPub remembers ends, a request it answered without our knowing is accepted, and a follow only it remembers
-	// is undone by the persona, as Mastodon does. A follow ends only when the list is the one the digest describes.
+	// is undone by the persona, as Mastodon does, or kept within RestoreRecord.FollowersGrace of a restore, which may have
+	// lost it. A follow ends only when the list is the one the digest describes.
 	public class FollowingSynchronization : IJobHandler
 	{
 		const int MaxPages = 10;
@@ -87,6 +88,19 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Federation.Actors
 				}
 				if (await _localActors.FindByUri(uri, token) is not { Kind: LocalActorKind.Person } stranger)
 					continue;
+				// a follow the restore lost: kept, not undone
+				if (await Infrastructure.Backup.RestoreRecord.InFollowersGrace(token))
+				{
+					await DB.Default.SaveAsync(new Following
+					{
+						AvatarId = stranger.Id,
+						TargetActorURI = actor.ActorURI,
+						TargetAccountId = actor.ID,
+						TargetInboxURL = string.IsNullOrEmpty(actor.InboxURL) ? actor.SharedInboxURL : actor.InboxURL,
+						State = FollowState.Accepted
+					}, token);
+					continue;
+				}
 				// (it has no id for a follow PrivaPub never made; it is undone by actor and object)
 				var undo = new JsonObject
 				{
diff --git a/PrivaPub/Federation/Outbox/DeliveryService.cs b/PrivaPub/Federation/Outbox/DeliveryService.cs
index 84ff300..9ff3a95 100644
--- a/PrivaPub/Federation/Outbox/DeliveryService.cs
+++ b/PrivaPub/Federation/Outbox/DeliveryService.cs
@@ -188,10 +188,11 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Federation.Outbox
 			});
 		}
 
-		// FEP-8fcf: what a delivery to the persona's followers tells the receiving server of its followers there
+		// FEP-8fcf: what a delivery to the persona's followers tells the receiving server of its followers there; nothing for
+		// a while after a restore, whose losses are not the other server's to mend
 		static async Task<(string, string)[]> Synchronization(LocalActor signer, string body, Uri inbox, CancellationToken token)
 		{
-			if (!FollowersSynchronization.Synchronizes(signer) || JsonNode.Parse(body) is not JsonObject activity || !FollowersSynchronization.ForFollowers(activity, signer))
+			if (!FollowersSynchronization.Synchronizes(signer) || await Infrastructure.Backup.RestoreRecord.InFollowersGrace(token) || JsonNode.Parse(body) is not JsonObject activity || !FollowersSynchronization.ForFollowers(activity, signer))
 				return [];
 			var there = await FollowersSynchronization.On(signer, FollowersSynchronization.Origin(inbox.AbsoluteUri), token);
 			return [(FollowersSynchronization.Header, FollowersSynchronization.HeaderValue(signer, FollowersSynchronization.Digest(there)))];