Maybe they did something like Shamir’s secret sharing… So you only need a quorum of larger number of fragments of to reconstruct the whole? If you’re warp capable and able to seed humanoid life, I imagine you’ve probably built in some redundancy.
It’s worth noting that Facebook regularly collects information and builds profiles about people who are not users (or are users who but aren’t logged in). The average user would be surprised what a company like Facebook can put together on individuals who have never made an account.
We’ve got an elevator at work that is… less than reliable. To reset the elevator is a giant breaker BUT sometimes it’s not the mechanics in the elevator but the control board. To reset that board is just a GFI. Also the lights in the elevator are a different light switch in the same closet.