Even chunked, a single concurrency-1 maintenance lane is fragile — a 30-min DB
backup or a multi-chunk library audit holds the slot and delays the quick
self-healing recovery sweeps / vacuum (operator-flagged 2026-06-07: long runs
must never block quick maintenance).
Route the long one-shots — backup.*, admin.* (normalize/re-extract/cascade-
delete), library_audit.* — to a new `maintenance_long` queue served by a
dedicated worker (concurrency 1), added to docker-compose (+ dev override). The
scheduler keeps the quick `maintenance` lane (sweeps, vacuum, cleanup) for
itself, so a backup can no longer starve a 5-min vacuum. UI queue list +
routing tests updated.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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