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Trigger the restore drill on demand via drill-* tags (#87) 
Gitea 1.22 cannot dispatch workflows through the API or UI (that lands in
1.23), so pushing a drill-* tag is the on-demand path next to the monthly
schedule.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Restore runbook (ADR 0015, issue #87)

How to restore a Dorfteich stage from a nightly backup set — manually in an incident, automatically as the monthly drill. The same procedure doubles as the Prod relocation procedure: restore the latest set on the new host.

A restore set is one backup id YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS: db-<id>.dump (pg_dump -Fc) plus files-<id>.tar.gz (uploads + plugins volumes), written nightly by the backup sidecar onto the backups volume, with status.json describing the last run (deploy/monitoring.md).

Manual restore (incident / relocation)

On the stage host, from the stage directory (/home/DOCKER/dorfteich-<stage>/):

  1. Pick the set. docker compose exec backup ls /backups — usually the id in status.json → lastSuccess.backupId.
  2. Run the automated runbook: ./restore.sh <backup-id> (deploy/backup/restore.sh). It stops web/api/collab (the db stays up), replays the dump with pg_restore --clean --if-exists and unpacks the volume archive through the backup sidecar image, starts the stack, and polls /readyz.
  3. Verify: /readyz fully green, spot-check one page and one uploaded file in the browser.

Consistency model (ADR 0015): the volume archive is taken minutes after the dump — a page referencing a file uploaded in between shows a missing image, never corruption.

Relocation to a new host: provision the stage directory (compose + .env, deploy/stages.md), start only db and backup (docker compose up -d db backup), copy the set into the backups volume (docker run --rm -v <src> -v <project>_backups:/backups …), then steps 2–3.

Automated monthly drill (.gitea/workflows/drill.yml)

Runs on the 1st of each month — and on demand by pushing a drill-* tag (git tag drill-$(date +%s) && git push origin --tags; Gitea 1.22 has no workflow-dispatch button yet). It executes deploy/backup/drill.sh, which

  • reads the drilled stage's backups volume read-only (stage volumes are never touched — everything scratch lives under a unique dorfteich-drill-<timestamp> prefix and is removed afterwards),
  • restores the latest successful set into a throwaway Postgres + volumes using the same backup-image code path as restore.sh,
  • boots the api image against the result and checks: readyz database + migrations ok, ≥ 1 user and live page, ≥ 1 rendered page in the content cache, a public API request answers 200, and one media file's bytes on the volume match its database row,
  • reports the outcome as a comment on the pinned Restore drills issue (#98), then tears the scratch environment down (also on failure).

Pre-go-live the drill restores the Test stage's set (DRILL_SOURCE_VOLUME: dorfteich-test_backups); at go-live (#89) point it at the Prod backups volume. Manual invocation on the stage host:

SOURCE_VOLUME=dorfteich-test_backups sh deploy/backup/drill.sh

A drill failure means the current backup set is not restorable — treat it like a failed backup: check the sidecar logs and status.json, fix, and re-run the drill the same day.