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Backup mirror to BASEL: rsync of the sets after every successful run (#84)
The operator-level extra beside the admin-configured Nextcloud target
(#103), unblocked now that the ONE→BASEL tunnel is stable again.

- sidecar: optional mirror step (mirror.ts) driven purely by env —
  BACKUP_MIRROR_TARGET (rsync-over-ssh), BACKUP_MIRROR_SSH_KEY (private
  key on the secrets volume, never in image or repo),
  BACKUP_MIRROR_SSH_PORT. Runs after the prune of every successful run,
  so --delete aligns the remote retention with the local one (the
  newest-complete-set guarantee carries over). Only set files travel
  (db-*.dump, files-*.tar.gz); status files and bundles stay local.
  Host key pinned via accept-new into .mirror_known_hosts on the backups
  volume; fixed remote modes (dirs 750, files 640, symbolic --chmod —
  octal needs rsync ≥ 3, macOS dev machines ship 2.6.9). rsync +
  openssh-client added to the sidecar image.
- status: additive `mirror` block in status.json (outcome, transferred
  count, lastSuccessAt carried across failures) — shown on the admin
  backup card; failures alert via a new backupMirrorFailed mail (de+en)
  while the local run still counts as succeeded.
- deploy/backup-basel.md: complete BASEL-side walkthrough — dedicated
  user dorfteich-backup with a /home/ home and a bash login shell,
  explicitly avoiding the Debian backup-user (UID 34) pitfalls
  (nologin shell rejects rsync sessions, /var/backups home), key
  placement through the api container onto the secrets volume, .env
  values, on-demand verification.
- tests: rsync-arg/stats-parsing units plus an integration suite against
  the real rsync binary (local target; skips where rsync is absent) —
  transfer, idempotent re-run (0 files), retention alignment, failure
  path carrying lastSuccessAt.

Verified live against the real BASEL host from a native sidecar run:
initial transfer, host-key pinning, retention alignment after a local
prune, idempotency, and the failure path (surfaced in status.json while
the local run stayed green). BASEL side provisioned per the doc.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Operations concept

Pragmatic monitoring (kickoff decision): health checks, external uptime monitoring, structured logs, backup alerting — no dedicated metrics stack.

Health & monitoring

  • Health endpoints: api exposes /healthz (liveness: process up) and /readyz (readiness: DB reachable + migrations applied = hard failures → 503; converter/renderer reachability and backup freshness < 26 h are warning-level → overall status: degraded, still HTTP 200). collab exposes /healthz (process + DB). web serves a static /healthz.
  • Docker healthchecks use the liveness endpoints only — never readyz — so a degraded instance is not restart-looped (restart: unless-stopped restarts on process exit, an unhealthy mark just shows in docker compose ps).
  • External uptime monitoring: the operator's existing Uptime-Kuma runs the monitor set defined in deploy/monitoring.md (web healthz, api readyz for down, a keyword monitor on the readyz body for degraded, and a collab WebSocket check), with notification on failure for Prod. Test/Int get reduced monitors (no paging).
  • Backup alerting: the backup sidecar writes backups/status.json after every run; readyz reads it (issue #85) and degrades when the last successful backup is older than 26 h, which surfaces through Uptime-Kuma without extra tooling. Additionally the sidecar sends a failure e-mail via the instance SMTP.

Logging

  • All services log structured JSON to stdout (pino); Docker's json-file driver with rotation (max-size: 10m, max-file: 5).
  • Log content rules: request logs with method/route/status/duration/user id (no request bodies), auth events (login success/failure, permission denials), admin actions (grants, plugin installs, quota changes) as an audit trail, collab session open/close. Never log passwords, tokens, session ids, or page content.
  • Persistent audit trail (issue #86): the auth events and admin actions additionally land as rows in audit_log via AuditService — queryable in the Site-Admin System panel (filter by actor/action/time, paginated). Content activity (pages, files, exports, labels) stays log-only by design.
  • Reading logs = docker compose logs / docker logs on the host; no central log stack at this scale (revisit if a second Prod host appears).

Backup & restore (operational view of ADR 0015)

  • Nightly at 03:00 stage-local time (sidecar backup, issue #83; env BACKUP_TIME/TZ): pg_dump -Fc → uploads/plugins volume archive (one tar, same backup id YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS) → optional Nextcloud upload (issue #103, see below) → prune (BACKUP_RETENTION_DAYS, 30 default / 7 Test+Int; a Site-Admin setting overrides the env; the newest complete set always survives) → status.json on the backups volume → on failure a mail directly via the instance SMTP to BACKUP_MAIL_TO.
  • Private mirror (issue #84): with BACKUP_MIRROR_TARGET + BACKUP_MIRROR_SSH_KEY set (Prod: BASEL over WireGuard), every successful run rsyncs the set files after the prune (--delete aligns the remote retention); outcome in status.json → mirror, failures mail like run failures. Setup: deploy/backup-basel.md.
  • Off-host copies (issue #103): with a Nextcloud target configured in the admin UI (WebDAV base URL + username + folder in instance settings, app password in the secret store), each successful set is bundled into ONE dorfteich-backup-<id>.tar.gz (dump + files archive + manifest) and uploaded per schedule (daily/weekly/manual); remote prune mirrors the local guarantee. The api and the sidecar talk over pg NOTIFY/LISTEN (backup_command); upload failures mail like run failures, staleness shows up as the backup_remote readyz check.
  • On-demand run: docker compose run --rm -e BACKUP_RUN_ONCE=1 backup (exit code = outcome); list sets with docker compose exec backup ls /backups.
  • Restore runbook (also the Prod-relocation procedure) — automated by deploy/backup/restore.sh <backup-id>, run from the stage directory:
    1. stop the app services (web, api, collab; the db stays up),
    2. restore DB: pg_restore --clean --if-exists into the db container,
    3. restore volume: unpack the matching uploads/plugins archive,
    4. docker compose up -d, verify /readyz, spot-check a page + a file.
  • Drills (issue #87): monthly automated restore of the latest backup set into a scratch environment via .gitea/workflows/drill.ymldeploy/backup/drill.sh (sanity checks + report on the pinned "Restore drills" issue); manual procedure and relocation notes in docs/operations/restore-runbook.md. Quarterly manual full-runbook drill on Test.
  • Admin UI (issue #103): Site Admin triggers on-demand backups ("Back up now") and restores a local or Nextcloud set in-app — a type-to-confirm prompt, then the sidecar orchestrates: maintenance mode (global 503 with an exempt status endpoint), collab sessions closed via the backup_maintenance NOTIFY channel, connections terminated, pg_restore + volume extract, api restart. restore.sh remains the disaster fallback when the app itself is gone.

Maintenance jobs (in-app scheduler, jobs table)

Job Cadence Purpose
trash purge daily delete pages/ponds past trash retention (ADR 0013)
version thinning daily auto-version retention policy (ADR 0013)
update-log compaction hourly, idle pages only bound Yjs log growth
quota reconciliation nightly recompute pond_usage, report drift
orphan file sweep nightly volume ↔ DB consistency (ADR 0011)
mail outbox retry every minute e-mail delivery with backoff

Job outcomes are visible in the Site Admin UI (last run, status) — that panel is the operator's single glance for instance health.

Update strategy

  • Own stages: pipeline-driven (see deployment.md); Prod only via approved release tags.
  • Self-hosters: semver releases; docker compose pull && up -d; migrations auto-apply; release notes flag manual steps and migration label. Supported downgrade window: one minor release.
  • Base image / dependency hygiene: monthly dependency-update story (renovate-style batch PR); security advisories for pinned images tracked in the release checklist.

Capacity & limits (initial values, instance-tunable)

Limit Default
max page document size 5 MiB Yjs state
max upload size 25 MiB (quota ladder, ADR 0011)
collab connections per instance 500 concurrent
rate limits login 10/min/IP, signup 5/h/IP, API 100/min/user