Wat ook al verander, bly die rugsteunkopie beskikbaar.

Wat ook al means whatever.

It is a very common Afrikaans pattern used to express no matter what or anything that. In this sentence, Wat ook al verander means Whatever changes or No matter what changes.

You can compare it with similar forms:

• wie ook al = whoever
• waar ook al = wherever
• wanneer ook al = whenever

So wat ook al is not a word-for-word translation of English whatever, but it functions the same way.

Ook al adds the idea of it does not matter what.

Without it, wat verander would just mean something like what changes or that which changes, which is not the same.

With ook al, the phrase becomes concessive or indefinite:

• Wat ook al gebeur = Whatever happens
• Wat ook al jy kies = Whatever you choose

So in your sentence, ook al helps create the meaning regardless of what changes.

Because wat ook al verander is a subordinate-type clause, and Afrikaans often places the finite verb at the end in that kind of clause.

So:

• Wat ook al verander = Whatever changes

This is normal Afrikaans word order after words like wat, dat, omdat, as, etc. English speakers often expect the verb earlier, but Afrikaans commonly pushes it to the end of the clause.

This is because Afrikaans is a verb-second language in main clauses.

The full basic main clause would be:

• Die rugsteunkopie bly beskikbaar.
  = The backup copy remains available.

But when the sentence begins with another element, such as Wat ook al verander, that first element takes the first position. Then the finite verb of the main clause must come second:

• Wat ook al verander, bly die rugsteunkopie beskikbaar.

This inversion is very common in Afrikaans and also happens in Dutch and German.

Here bly means remain or stay.

So bly beskikbaar means:

• remains available
• stays available

It does not mean live here, even though bly can also mean live/reside in other contexts.

Examples:

• Die deur bly oop. = The door stays open.
• Sy bly kalm. = She remains calm.

Because beskikbaar is functioning as a predicate adjective after bly.

In English, we say:

• remains available

Afrikaans does the same thing:

• bly beskikbaar

You do not need an extra is. The verb bly already links the subject to the adjective.

So:

• Die rugsteunkopie bly beskikbaar
  = The backup copy remains available

Rugsteunkopie means backup copy.

It is a compound noun:

• rugsteun = backup
• kopie = copy

Afrikaans forms compound nouns very freely, just like Dutch and German, and often more directly than English. So instead of writing two separate words, Afrikaans commonly joins them into one:

• rugsteunkopie

The article is die, because kopie is a de-word noun.

The comma separates the opening clause from the main clause:

• Wat ook al verander, bly die rugsteunkopie beskikbaar.

This is very natural punctuation in Afrikaans when an introductory clause comes before the main statement. It helps show the sentence structure clearly.

No. The subject of the main clause is die rugsteunkopie.

The sentence breaks down like this:

• Wat ook al verander = introductory clause, meaning whatever changes
• bly = main verb
• die rugsteunkopie = subject of the main clause
• beskikbaar = adjective complement

So the main message is about the backup copy: it remains available.

Yes, that would be understandable, and it keeps the same basic meaning: The backup copy remains available, whatever changes.

But the original version is very natural because Afrikaans often puts this kind of whatever/no matter what clause first for emphasis:

• Wat ook al verander, bly die rugsteunkopie beskikbaar.

Starting with wat ook al verander highlights the idea of regardless of changes.