- OPEN-ITEMS: R-185 closed with the measurement, the corrected root cause (the installer's Scenario-F reuse arm, not PVE_STORAGES), and the live sequence. Records that demo-hp carried the same drift and was fixed too. - capability map: the whole-guest row's HOST-tier half was OPTIMISTIC and now says so — that tier was not merely unproven, it was unprovable on both demo boxes, and every live proof cited was on the offsite tier. - vzdump-target-move runbook: its item 5 predicted this; annotated (not rewritten) with what actually happened — the create arm did grant, the reuse arm did not, and it surfaced as a silent unreadable tier rather than the 403 the item expected, because vzdump writes through a root path. - CONTEXT: S-21 (an empty listing cannot distinguish forbidden from newborn; the measured trap that an ungranted path answers with INHERITED privileges) and S-22 (the Scenario-F arm must finish the job). - STATUS: rewritten for the operator, back to one screen.
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- **The off-site copy can be erased by the machine that made it.** The credential that writes it can
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also delete it. A daily snapshot is armed as a stopgap, and we have never restored from that copy.
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*(R-95, R-87)*
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- **Nothing else open that affects a customer.** The three faults that were on this list yesterday —
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the reserve watching the wrong step, the last app whose data was never saved, and the alert that
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told you about one app and swallowed the rest — are all fixed and proven on a real machine.
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## What shipped recently
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- **A backup copy the machine was never allowed to read — and could not tell you about.** One demo
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machine kept its whole-machine backups on a dedicated storage area the agent had never been granted
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permission to read. Asked what was there it was told "nothing", while an administrator saw three
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backups. **The permission was one command; the silence was the real fault** — a storage that answers
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"nothing" looks exactly like a brand-new one, which is a normal, healthy state, so that copy had
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never been test-restored and nothing had ever mentioned it. The machine now checks whether it is
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allowed to read each copy it depends on and says so when it is not — the alert reached you by email
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before the permission was granted, which is the whole point. **Both demo machines carried it and
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both are fixed**, and new machines no longer inherit it. *(R-185)*
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- **Three ways the alarm system was misreporting its own work — all fixed.** None of them ever risked
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data. **(1)** When the machine proved a backup restores, that result could vanish if the agent was
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restarted in the following quarter-hour — and yesterday's change made the gap a week rather than a
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published after the binary, and a new check catches the opposite mistake so nothing is traded away.
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**(3)** A released binary can now be rebuilt by anyone and checked against the fingerprint you
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approve — until today, rebuilding produced different bytes. *(R-189, R-188, R-186)*
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- **Each backup is now proved, instead of the clock being obeyed.** The machine used to re-test a
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backup every twenty-four hours on a timer that restarted whenever the software was updated, so the
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test happened at an arbitrary time and a fresh backup could sit unproven while an old one was
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re-checked. Now a copy is tested once, about a day after it is made, and not again until there is a
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newer one — so the daily copy is proved daily and the weekly off-site copy weekly, each on its own.
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The alert that says "this copy has not been proved lately" learned each copy's own rhythm in the
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same change; without that it would have started complaining every night about a system that is
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working. *(R-86)*
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- **A failed backup now tells you about every app, once**, with every failure written down whether or
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not it is emailed, and a message the machine decides not to send now leaves a record saying so.
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*(R-182)*
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- **Each backup is now proved, instead of the clock being obeyed** — tested once, about a day after
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it is made, and not again until there is a newer one; the "not proved lately" alert learned each
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copy's own rhythm in the same change. *(R-86)*
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## What we're working on
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- **One small question, not urgent.** The automatic check cannot see which version you have told
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machines to install, only which ones exist. Closing that needs either a password given to the build
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server or a check inside the hub itself. *(R-184)*
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- **Nothing else.** The question about whether the off-site endpoint counts as protected is
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**settled — it does**, and the machine list now says so instead of asking.
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- **Nothing else.**
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## Changed since last update
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- **2026-08-03** — Found and fixed a backup copy the machine was never permitted to read, on both demo
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machines. The permission was one line; what mattered was that the machine now says so instead of
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treating "I am not allowed" and "there is nothing here yet" as the same answer. *(R-185)*
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- **2026-08-03** — Fixed three ways the alarm system misreported itself: a proof of a working backup
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that could vanish on a restart (seen happening), a release that emailed a failure for a release
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that worked, and a released binary nobody could rebuild and check. *(R-189, R-188, R-186)*
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- **2026-08-03** — Backups are now proved one at a time, each about a day after it is made, instead of
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on a timer; the "not proved lately" alert learned each copy's own rhythm so it does not complain
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about a healthy weekly copy. You settled that the off-site endpoint is protected, and the machine
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list records it. One thing found while testing: on the small demo machine the agent cannot see its
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own local backups at all — a permission that was never granted — so that copy has never been
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test-restored there. Written down, not yet fixed. *(R-86, R-185)*
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on a timer; the "not proved lately" alert learned each copy's own rhythm. You settled that the
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off-site endpoint is protected. *(R-86)*
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