CORRECTION 1 — the runbook annotation and the R-185 row both said the drift did
not surface as a 403 because writes go through a root path. That is WRONG.
demo-felhom's local-api backup jobs 403'd six times between 09:24 and 17:34 CEST
on exactly that storage and privilege, and the hub raised whole_guest_backup_failed
at the first with edge-triggering suppressing the rest. The impact was not only an
unreadable tier: the agent's own whole-guest backups to it were failing.
CORRECTION 2 — on this box the grant was LOST, not never issued. A vzdump by the
agent's token to that storage completed OK at 04:44:50 the same morning; the first
403 is 09:24:56. Ruled out by measurement: a host reinstall (uptime 12 days), any
pveum/ACL/user.cfg activity in syslog 04:00-10:00, any ACL entry in the cluster
log. Correlated but not established: guest 9201 was reprovisioned nine minutes
before the first failure.
R-190 files the unexplained disappearance, and notes that the new store-grant
probe detects the STATE but says nothing about the TRANSITION.
- 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.
Supervised operational run. No code, no version bump, nothing deleted.
Primary backup tier on both demo boxes moved from `local` (a dir storage on
/var/lib/vz -- the SAME physical device as the guest) to `felhom-backup`, a dir
storage on each box's secondary drive:
demo-hp /mnt/nvme-1tb uuid:91d2dc2d-... archive 2,256,044,492 B
demo-felhom /mnt/hdd_1 uuid:47a3361a-... archive 5,957,878,962 B
Both proven end to end via the real UI path: archive lands on the secondary
drive (df delta matches the archive byte-for-byte), restore-test auto-selects it
and passes with mount_parity: ok, and freshness survives an agent restart with
an empty in-memory store -- so the age can only have come from the new storage.
Phase 0: the target is CONFIGURATION, not converged (the sole writer of
agent.json touches only escrow.pbs_storage_id and preserves unknown keys), so
the runbook's STOP did not fire. No consumer hardcodes "local" on the backup path.
Findings:
- F-1 the storage path must BE the mountpoint; a subdirectory fails exactMount
and the target reports disconnected permanently (observe.go:321)
- F-2 --is_mountpoint 1 is load-bearing; proven live, an unguarded storage on a
non-mounted path reports active with the ROOT filesystem's free space and
had already created dump/ on pve-root -- a silent retarget onto the very
device this change escapes
- F-3 FelhomAgentStore is granted per storage path; without it every backup
403s. felhom-host-install.sh must issue it for new installs
- R-109 (new) the DR recipe records no backup target, and each box now carries
two content=backup dir storages, one live and one frozen
- R-105 narrowed and TRACED: dr_recipe drives was [] fleet-wide because the
enrolled drives were never PVE storages, so isUserDataDrive never saw
them. Both boxes now populate drives; SMART on the backup drives too
Absent-drive behaviour today is fail-loudly with no silent retarget (PVE half
live-proven; agent half source-traced). That is NOT the intended fall-back-and-
alarm design -- filed as E-2 with the honest single-drive label.
Reported in full in the record: the agent was restarted with a felhom-pbs backup
in flight, producing a spurious tier failure. The backup had in fact succeeded
(PVE task OK, 6,264,034,053 B snapshot) and the spurious failure reached no
channel -- R-84 ground truth superseded it.
Outstanding: full drive-loss recovery (needs physical access) and the agent half
of the absent-drive behaviour.
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