#5816 "Restoring mode": while a backup goes back in, the scheduler holds,
ingest and HTMX answer 503 with Retry-After (agents keep their samples),
and every page says what is happening. A safety backup of Steward as it
stands is made first, to /data/backups and the bucket. The backup's key
is put in place, the restore audited, and Steward exits with code 3 so
Swarm, compose or systemd starts it fresh. A failed in-place restore
changes nothing and says why on Backups; a full replace that fails after
the wipe restarts into first-run setup.
#5817 "Settings → Backups: Restore": a Restore button on each sent backup
and on the file card. The chosen backup is checked (the same comparison
as Check, now a shared partial) and held server-side for an hour under a
token; it starts only once the admin types "restore", and an older
backup also needs "Replace everything" ticked. A newer backup, or one
whose key can't open its secrets, gets no button.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
#5823 "Check a backup: compare what it would restore with what is in
place, without restoring".
- steward/backup/check.py: pg_restore writes the backup's rows as COPY
text with no database involved. The rows in place go out through COPY in
the same form. Tables are compared on their primary keys, over the columns
both sides have, and grouped by area.
- Sealed values are opened with each side's own key and compared as
plaintext digests, so a secret sealed twice still matches. They are never
shown. A backup whose key can't open its own secrets fails the check.
- What Steward records as it runs (last-seen times, a schedule's last run,
backup history, scraped UniFi fields) is left out of the comparison:
contents.ACTIVITY, STATE_SETTINGS and HAND_SET_ONLY.
- Settings → Backups:
- a Check button on each sent backup, which fetches it from the bucket
(new s3.get_file);
- "Check a file" to upload one, with the size limit raised before the
CSRF check reads the form;
- a results page.
- Each backup Steward sends checks itself once written, and its history
row says how that went.
- New CLI command `steward check-backup FILE`. CI's image smoke step checks a
real backup against its source and expects a match.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>