Forget against an --append-only rest-server fails every night (delete
ops blocked). The resulting daily failure cluttered service status and
logs without ever actually retiring old snapshots. Schedule is now
removed from the forget block in all six profiles; the keep-daily /
keep-weekly / keep-monthly / keep-yearly policy remains so manual
invocations (during prune ceremonies, when --append-only is
temporarily off) honor the intended retention.
Files:
configs/restic/ana-docker/profiles.yaml
configs/restic/ana-ml2/profiles.yaml
configs/restic/nh3-docker/profiles.yaml
configs/restic/esh-docker-vm/profiles.yaml
configs/restic/vm-esh-nas/profiles.yaml
configs/restic/nh3-dev/profiles.yaml
Each file has an inline comment marking why the schedule was dropped
so a future reader doesn't re-add it thinking it was an oversight.
STATUS.md: removed the "install Backrest nightly-restart timer" line
item. User confirmed the UI timeout hits even at startup, so periodic
restart wouldn't actually help. Root cause remains deferred.
The Anaheim NAS exports /mnt/backup with root_squash, so sudo-as-root
on ana-docker becomes nobody on the NFS side and `sudo tee` gets EACCES.
The repo tree is owned by lkraven:lkraven precisely because of this —
all writes go through the lkraven UID.
Drop sudo from the example; plain `>>` append as lkraven works.
Second ESH Docker host — light (filezilla + dockge + agents, /opt/docker
is 56 KB). Cross-site writes to the Anaheim rest-server since ESH has
no local rest-server.
Critical detail: vm-esh-nas NFS-mounts /mnt/{share,music,books,media}
from 10.0.50.50 (~400 TB). Profile's exclude patterns explicitly
reject those paths as a safety net on top of the source list not
including them — a careless future edit to sources can't nuke the
backup repo by pulling in 400 TB.
Sources include /home/ (lkraven/nas/user dirs) in addition to the
usual /opt/docker /etc /root /var/lib/docker/volumes — this host has
multiple user accounts worth preserving dotfiles for.
No pre-backup hook: no relational DBs.
README walks through the full setup: install restic (not present on
this host), add htpasswd entry on rest-server-ana, install creds,
init, install resticprofile, schedule timers. Also flags the 3.8 GB
RAM constraint.
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