diff --git a/cmd/felhom-agent/main.go b/cmd/felhom-agent/main.go
index 8f58462..43547d8 100644
--- a/cmd/felhom-agent/main.go
+++ b/cmd/felhom-agent/main.go
@@ -346,6 +346,21 @@ func pbsTargetsFromPVE(cfg config.Config, px *proxmox.Client, logger *slog.Logge
 	}
 }
 
+// storageTier returns the restore-test source tier for a backup storage id: "pbs" when that
+// storage is a PBS datastore, else "local". Best-effort (a lookup failure → "local").
+func storageTier(ctx context.Context, px *proxmox.Client, storageID string) string {
+	stores, err := px.ListStorage(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "local"
+	}
+	for _, s := range stores {
+		if s.Storage == storageID && s.Type == "pbs" {
+			return "pbs"
+		}
+	}
+	return "local"
+}
+
 // readTrimmed reads a file and trims surrounding whitespace/newline (for the .pw secret).
 func readTrimmed(path string) (string, error) {
 	b, err := os.ReadFile(path)
@@ -381,7 +396,7 @@ func buildRestoreTestScheduler(cfg config.Config, px *proxmox.Client, engine *re
 			RestoreStorage: cfg.Backup.RestoreStorage,
 			ScratchMin:     min,
 			ScratchMax:     max,
-			SourceTier:     "local",
+			SourceTier:     storageTier(context.Background(), px, cfg.Backup.LocalBackupTarget),
 		},
 		Cadence: cadence,
 		Logger:  logger,
@@ -665,7 +680,7 @@ func runSelftestRestoreTest(ctx context.Context, cfg config.Config, logger *slog
 	fmt.Printf("  restoring %s into scratch band [%d,%d] on %s …\n", archive, min, max, cfg.Backup.RestoreStorage)
 	res := engine.RunRestoreTest(ctx, reconcile.RestoreTestSpec{
 		Archive: archive, RestoreStorage: cfg.Backup.RestoreStorage,
-		ScratchMin: min, ScratchMax: max, SourceTier: "local",
+		ScratchMin: min, ScratchMax: max, SourceTier: storageTier(ctx, px, cfg.Backup.LocalBackupTarget),
 	})
 	printJSON("restore-test record", backup.ToHubRestoreTest(res, time.Now().UTC()))
 	if res.Skipped {
diff --git a/internal/pbs/client.go b/internal/pbs/client.go
index 0ec0057..c822696 100644
--- a/internal/pbs/client.go
+++ b/internal/pbs/client.go
@@ -67,7 +67,12 @@ func (c *Client) Verify(ctx context.Context, datastore string, _ ...string) (str
 		Data string `json:"data"`
 	}
 	path := fmt.Sprintf("/admin/datastore/%s/verify", url.PathEscape(datastore))
-	if err := c.do(ctx, http.MethodPost, path, &out); err != nil {
+	// ignore-verified=false → RE-verify even already-verified snapshots. This is what makes
+	// the check actually detect corruption (PBS's default ignore-verified=true skips them, so
+	// a chunk that rots after its first verify would never be re-checked). The cost is real
+	// re-read I/O; for a large datastore a future refinement is outdated-after-based scoping.
+	form := url.Values{"ignore-verified": {"false"}}
+	if err := c.post(ctx, path, form, &out); err != nil {
 		return "", err
 	}
 	return out.Data, nil
@@ -175,25 +180,37 @@ func NodeFromUPID(upid string) string {
 	return parts[1]
 }
 
-// do performs a request, sets the token auth header, and decodes the JSON body into out. The
-// auth header carries the secret and is NEVER logged.
+// post performs a form-encoded POST (PBS mutating ops take form params).
+func (c *Client) post(ctx context.Context, path string, form url.Values, out any) error {
+	return c.doBody(ctx, http.MethodPost, path, strings.NewReader(form.Encode()), "application/x-www-form-urlencoded", out)
+}
+
+// do performs a request (no body), sets the token auth header, and decodes JSON into out.
 func (c *Client) do(ctx context.Context, method, path string, out any) error {
-	req, err := http.NewRequestWithContext(ctx, method, c.base+path, nil)
+	return c.doBody(ctx, method, path, nil, "", out)
+}
+
+// doBody is the shared request path. The auth header carries the secret and is NEVER logged.
+func (c *Client) doBody(ctx context.Context, method, path string, body io.Reader, contentType string, out any) error {
+	req, err := http.NewRequestWithContext(ctx, method, c.base+path, body)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
+	if contentType != "" {
+		req.Header.Set("Content-Type", contentType)
+	}
 	req.Header.Set("Authorization", c.authHeader)
 	resp, err := c.http.Do(req)
 	if err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("pbs: %s %s: %w", method, path, err)
 	}
 	defer resp.Body.Close()
-	body, _ := io.ReadAll(io.LimitReader(resp.Body, 8<<20))
+	respBody, _ := io.ReadAll(io.LimitReader(resp.Body, 8<<20))
 	if resp.StatusCode < 200 || resp.StatusCode >= 300 {
-		return fmt.Errorf("pbs: %s %s -> HTTP %d: %s", method, path, resp.StatusCode, trimBody(body))
+		return fmt.Errorf("pbs: %s %s -> HTTP %d: %s", method, path, resp.StatusCode, trimBody(respBody))
 	}
 	if out != nil {
-		if err := json.Unmarshal(body, out); err != nil {
+		if err := json.Unmarshal(respBody, out); err != nil {
 			return fmt.Errorf("pbs: decoding %s %s: %w", method, path, err)
 		}
 	}