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[2026-09-19] ESH VM 102 (esh-vm-workstation) excluded from the nightly backup job — operator ruling.
ESH VM 102 (esh-vm-workstation) excluded from the nightly backup job — operator ruling. It is a Windows 11 Parsec/RDP sandbox (no password, no state to recover), and its vzdump had failed nightly since ~09-06 with timeout waiting on systemd, manufacturing a real job errors every night. infra-hermes argued correctly that a stopped guest still holds state and the job defect is the real fault; the operator overrode on what the guest actually IS — the one input neither agent had. ⚠ Policy, not a fix: the systemd-scope failure on stopped guests is UNDIAGNOSED, merely no longer reached on this node. A stopped guest that DOES matter would hit the same wall. Job uses an explicit vmid INCLUDE list, so exclusion = removal; reason recorded in the job's own comment. e50e57b, playbooks/esh-exclude-vm102-from-backup.yaml.