diff --git a/.superpowers/sdd/pgvector-task-4-report.md b/.superpowers/sdd/pgvector-task-4-report.md
index 1da90815..38fe1607 100644
--- a/.superpowers/sdd/pgvector-task-4-report.md
+++ b/.superpowers/sdd/pgvector-task-4-report.md
@@ -83,3 +83,12 @@ All five final review findings were addressed in a follow-up commit:
   sequence authority, and 768-dimensional compatibility are therefore verified through the
   production adapter. Reconciliation now restores group-role schema `USAGE`, which table-selected
   archives cannot carry.
+
+### Atomic no-replace backup publication
+
+The final publication review is also closed. The private same-directory archive is published with
+an atomic hard-link create rather than rename-overwrite semantics. If any process creates the final
+file or symlink after preflight but before publication, `ln` fails with `EEXIST`, the backup exits
+nonzero, the concurrent destination remains byte-for-byte intact, and the trap removes only the
+randomly named temporary archive owned by this invocation. The fake `pg_dump` safety test creates
+that destination immediately before returning and pins the failure and cleanup behavior.
diff --git a/scripts/test-vector-backup-restore-safety.sh b/scripts/test-vector-backup-restore-safety.sh
index c553244e..1fda9895 100755
--- a/scripts/test-vector-backup-restore-safety.sh
+++ b/scripts/test-vector-backup-restore-safety.sh
@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ cat >"$fakebin/pg_dump" <<'SH'
 set -eu
 for arg in "$@"; do case "$arg" in --file=*) output=${arg#--file=} ;; esac; done
 printf 'custom dump' >"$output"
+if [ -n "${RACE_OUTPUT:-}" ]; then
+  printf 'concurrent owner' >"$RACE_OUTPUT"
+fi
 SH
 chmod 0755 "$fakebin/pg_dump"
 
@@ -26,6 +29,19 @@ test "$(cat "$victim")" = sentinel
 test "$(cat "$output")" = 'custom dump'
 test -L "$output.partial"
 
+race_output="$tmp/raced.dump"
+if PATH="$fakebin:$PATH" RACE_OUTPUT="$race_output" ./scripts/vector-backup.sh \
+    --host source --database thoth --user admin --password-file "$tmp/password" \
+    --output "$race_output" >"$tmp/race.out" 2>"$tmp/race.err"; then
+  echo "backup replaced a destination created concurrently" >&2
+  exit 1
+fi
+test "$(cat "$race_output")" = 'concurrent owner'
+if find "$tmp" -name '.raced.dump.tmp.*' -print | grep -q .; then
+  echo "backup left its owned temporary archive after publication failure" >&2
+  exit 1
+fi
+
 cat >"$fakebin/psql" <<'SH'
 #!/bin/sh
 set -eu
diff --git a/scripts/vector-backup.sh b/scripts/vector-backup.sh
index 030880fd..61b6c586 100755
--- a/scripts/vector-backup.sh
+++ b/scripts/vector-backup.sh
@@ -45,5 +45,9 @@ PGPASSFILE=$passfile pg_dump \
   --format=custom --compress=9 \
   --table=vectors.schema_records --table=vectors.evidence --table=vectors.memory \
   --table=public.tht_vector_migrations --file="$temporary_output"
-mv "$temporary_output" "$output"
+if ! ln "$temporary_output" "$output"; then
+  echo "refusing to replace backup destination created concurrently: $output" >&2
+  exit 2
+fi
+rm -f "$temporary_output"
 echo "Vector backup written: $output"