Viktor deleted 11 immich photos to test offsite restore; both place runs
merged 0 files and flashed success. Two-layered root cause:
- A UI delete means TRASH, not deletion — no file left the disk, so there
was genuinely nothing missing to restore. The test proved nothing.
- A valid test would also have failed: no offsite path loads a database.
All three buttons are file-only (offbox_restore.go:171-232, :346-421).
Files return; the library stays empty. The only DB replay is
RestoreFromRecoveryUnit, reachable solely from the LOCAL restore panel.
Compounding: the manual push never refreshes dumps (offbox_handlers.go:
203-227) — today's unit dump is from 02:30 and probes to asset:0 / user:0 /
album:0, predating both the admin user and the photos. Had a full restore
loaded it, it would have written an empty DB over the live one, destroying
the trashed rows that were the only surviving recovery path.
Answer to "can a customer trust same-day offsite?" for a DB-indexed app:
no — files come back, content does not.
No product code changed. Photos left in trash (recovery not wanted).
Capability map: customer-restore row stays MISSING by finding, not by
absence of attempt; offsite-restore row flagged scope-contested pending
a ruling on whether CAMPAIGN-6D exercised the DB half.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01P9Nn14TWGzKoqAJAiVwC2s
