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admin 5f35aa0346 Campaign 10: M-band RTO measured — RTO ~= 40s + 26.9s/GB, and a capacity ceiling that matters more 
The S figures (66 MB -> 42.0s, two passes agreeing to 0.6s) had a spread tight
enough to prove fixed work dominates, which is exactly why they said nothing about
M. Second point taken 327x larger, same app, same method: clock from restore
request to the app serving the correct discriminator.

rallly's postgres volume grown 66 MB -> 21.1 GB (200k rows, STORAGE EXTERNAL so
TOAST cannot compress it into a fake number). Two reps:

  rep 1  backup 406.4s  unit 41149 MB  RTO 624.5s  discriminator correct
  rep 2  backup 387.2s  unit 41133 MB  RTO 591.8s  discriminator correct

327x the data cost 14.5x the time - strongly sub-linear:
  RTO ~= 40s + 26.9 s/GB      backup ~= 29s + 17.4 s/GB
  10 GB -> 5.2 min   20 GB -> 9.6 min (measured 10.1)   100 GB -> 46 min
The fixed ~40s dominates below ~1.5 GB, which IS the S band and explains its tight
clustering.

The more consequential result is capacity. A DB-backed app's recovery unit is
1.90x its data (volume tar PLUS SQL dump): 21.1 GB produced a 40.2 GB unit. The
default appliance ships /mnt/sys_drive at 20 GB, so the largest app that can hold
a local Tier-1/2 recovery unit on a default box is about 10 GB - and that fills the
volume. The M band does not fit on a default box at all; this test only reached
21 GB because sys_drive was first grown 20G -> 70G with the same operation the
product performs via SysDataGrowGB. A tier-sizing decision, not a defect, but it
is invisible until an app crosses it.

Caveats stated in the doc: two points define a line but do not test linearity; the
1.90x is DB-app-specific and a file-only app should be nearer 1.0x (inferred, not
measured); synthetic incompressible data; one app, one box.
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# CAMPAIGN 10 — two-storage adversarial soak (2026-07-31 → 08-01)
**Phase A COMPLETE and gated (2026-07-31). Phase B run in three passes (2026-08-01/02): run 1
27 cycles, run 2a 10 cycles (stopped — harness defect), run 2b **39 cycles**. Together **66 clean
cycles + 39 with the full atom set**, 1 461 invariant checks.**
**Findings: R-156 (papra), R-157 (bootrecon, two mechanisms).** One structural scope constraint —
Tier 3 cannot be isolated (§3). **Three suspicions investigated and DISPROVED** (§5.2, §5.3), and
**two violations traced to the harness, not the product** (§4d). Monotonic-growth sampling over
13.5 h found **no leak** (§6b).
Evidence: `../tests/campaign10-evidence-2026-07-31/` — `state/phaseA-journal.md` (step-by-step),
`isolation/pbs-denial.txt`, `isolation/restic-denial.txt`, `r156-papra-volume.txt`.
---
## 1. Venue and baselines
| | |
|---|---|
| Host | `demo-hp` (HP t740), **Tier 0**, the designated drill/build host |
| VM | **311 `c10-appliance`** — q35/OVMF (`pre-enrolled-keys=0`), 4 cores, 8 GB, `cpu=host` |
| Disks | `scsi0` 200 G system · `scsi1` 50 G · `scsi2` 50 G, qcow2 on `c10-scratch` |
| Storage | **`c10-scratch`**, `dir` at **`/mnt/nvme-1tb` — the mount ROOT**, `content=images` |
| Box | `c10.felhom.eu` @ `192.168.0.105` (demo-hp's vmbr0, `192.168.0.87/24`) |
| Console | no browser on DooPlex → `qm monitor screendump` → PNG, read visually; `sendkey` for input |
| Untouched | `drill-r50` (VM 300), guest 9201 on both demo boxes, `local-lvm`, both backup targets, ep0, the Storage Box |
**The `exactMount` choice, made deliberately (the brief asks which).** `c10-scratch` sits at the mount
**root**, not a subdirectory. A dir storage at a subdirectory sets `exactMount=false` →
`reachable=false` → `StorageStateDisconnected` (`felhom-agent/internal/storage/observe.go:336`), which
would have emitted `storage_disconnected` for demo-hp for the entire run — **the exact signal I1/I2
exist to discriminate**. It coexists with `felhom-backup` on the same path, which was not modified.
### Baselines — every value read fresh
| What | Value | How |
|---|---|---|
| controller `main` | **v0.188.0** | CHANGELOG top; `HEAD`=`origin/main`=`4115e88`, clean |
| **golden's baked controller** | **0.188.0** (`7353d8be…`) | hub `/configuration`, selected option |
| agent published + vouched | **0.119.0** (`e37aca82…`) | hub `/configuration`, selected option |
| hub | **0.86.0** | live deploy image tag == CHANGELOG top |
| ISO | **1.26.1**, `f3cc86d5…`, 1 705 322 496 B | live round trip from `iso.felhom.eu` |
| `felhom.eu` HEAD | `e9a74a0`, clean | `git rev-parse` |
| managed floor | v0.156.0 (DB override) | hub `/configuration` |
**Golden vs `main`: not behind — both 0.188.0.** The deliberate decision the brief asks for is
therefore vacuous this run; the campaign tests what is shipping *and* what is current.
**Two of the brief's assumptions were stale; reading fresh caught both.**
1. The brief was written against ISO **v1.25.0**. `iso.felhom.eu` began serving **1.26.1** at 18:37 Z
the same day, ~90 minutes before this run. Operator chose 1.26.1 — the current published artifact.
2. The brief and three docs say demo-hp has **no baked SSH key**; `ssh -o BatchMode=yes demo-hp`
authenticated **by key, first try**. Already **R-129**; **not re-filed**.
---
## 2. The isolation gate — §2
| Target | Isolation | Proof |
|---|---|---|
| **PBS** | dedicated datastore `felhom-c10` on DooPlex + auth-id `c10@pbs!box` scoped to it alone | **CAPTURED** — `isolation/pbs-denial.txt` |
| **restic** | scratch subaccount `u629488-sub4`, own chroot home `felhom-campaign10` | **CAPTURED** — `isolation/restic-denial.txt` |
| **hub** | the campaign's own record `c10-soak`; no other customer touched | **CAPTURED** — §2.3 |
**Both denials carry a POSITIVE CONTROL, and the first attempt failed it.** The initial PBS capture
returned four tidy 403s — including on the campaign's *own* datastore. All four were worthless: PBS
API tokens carry privilege separation, so a token's rights are the intersection of the user's ACL and
the token's, and user `c10@pbs` had none. Granting the scoped role to the user as well turned the
control green and left the denials standing. Without the control this would have shipped as a clean
isolation proof that proved only that the credential was broken.
## POSITIVE CONTROL — same token, its OWN datastore
GET /api2/json/admin/datastore/felhom-c10/snapshots {"data":[]} HTTP 200
## DENIAL 1 — production datastore felhom-spike
permission check failed - missing Datastore.Audit|Datastore.Backup on /datastore/felhom-spike 403
## DENIAL 3 — DELETE namespace demo-felhom (destructive)
permission check failed - missing Datastore.Modify on /datastore/felhom-spike 403
restic, same shape — the credential writes and reads back in its own home, and every production path
is outside the chroot:
POSITIVE CONTROL put/get/rm c10-canary.txt in own home → succeeds, content verified
DENIAL cd /home/felhom-peti-felhom → stat remote: No such file or directory
DENIAL ls .. → remote readdir("/home/../"): Permission denied
**2.3 — hub.** The run created exactly one record, `c10-soak`, and bound exactly one appliance
(uuid `55ab3776-…`) to it. Existing customers (`demo-felhom`, `demo-hp`, `peti-felhom`, `drill-r50`,
`sess-f`) were read but never written. Verified from the hub's own log: every `c10-soak` line is the
campaign's, and no line names another customer.
---
## 3. Scope constraint — Tier 3 cannot be isolated, so it was not run
The brief requires the campaign's PBS to be *a dedicated datastore and namespace on DooPlex*. That is
unreachable, for two reasons that are each an **already-recorded deliberate position**:
1. **Offsite hard-requires the DR tier** — `hub/internal/web/configs.go:1300` refuses outright:
*"Offsite backup requires the DR tier — enable it first (the escrow ceremony depends on the PBS
key)"*. Closed by policy 2026-07-12 (drill F-6, DR-tier-by-default decisions 3/4).
2. **The DR tier only ever provisions on ep0** — peer allocation and endpoint sync use the lowest
`endpoint_id` only; per-endpoint allocation is an explicitly deferred arc (`hub/README.md:260`).
So the only two configurations are *DR tier on* → campaign PBS traffic lands on **ep0** (Tier 2, the
offsite of last resort, RAM-constrained per R-90, fenced by §3), or *DR tier off* → **no Tier 3 at
all**. Chosen: **DR tier OFF, offsite OFF** — the only option §3 permits.
Consequence, stated up front rather than discovered in the results: the campaign touches **neither ep0
nor the Storage Box at any point** — stronger isolation than asked for, obtained by not running the
tier. **Lost: every Tier-3 atom, I8 entirely, and the Tier-3 RTO/RPO rows.** Unaffected: the
two-drive core (R-112/113/114/116/117), D5, and I1–I7, I9–I11.
**No `R-n` minted** — the register was grepped first and both halves are already recorded. This is a
campaign constraint, not a defect.
---
## 4. Phase A gates
| Gate | Result | Positive observable |
|---|---|---|
| **A1** install from the published ISO | **PASS** | `ii felhom-bootstrap 1.26.1`; unit `enabled`, fired at first boot; registered unclaimed with pairing code `FD6-A6S`, MACs, hardware and 3 SSH host keys; **4.2 GB actually written**, system booted on its own |
| **A2** claim | **PASS** | discriminator flipped `dashboard not yet claimed` → `authentication required`; hub: `[claim] customer c10-soak CLAIMED its dashboard` |
| **A3** enrol both drives, apps across them | **PASS** | both registered via the real endpoint; backup target healthy; 4 apps healthy |
| **A4** discriminators | **PASS** | all four apps seed and read back the same generation |
| **A5** budget + watchdog | **PASS** (built for Phase B) | disk floor 120 G on `/mnt/nvme-1tb` + VM-liveness watchdog; heartbeat `status.txt` per phase; `journal.tsv` per check. Neither fired: the run ended on its deadline with 871 G free |
**A1 — 1.26.1 cannot auto-install, verified against the bytes** (not inferred from its manifest):
`auto-installer-mode.toml` 0 hits, `answer.toml` 0, `proxmox-auto-install` 0, exactly 2 interactive
menuentries. Driven blind through the **Terminal UI** (the graphical entry is undrivable — monitor
mouse events do not move the guest cursor). Three traps hit and handled:
- GRUB's default is the graphical entry; the first `down` landed after the 15 s countdown. Reset and
sent it inside the window in one round trip.
- **The guest keymap was Hungarian while `sendkey` emits US scancodes.** Every symbol afterwards —
notably `@`, which is AltGr+V on a Hungarian layout — would have been silently mangled, *including
the 24-char root password*, locking the box out with no way back in. Switched to U.S. English
before typing anything; confirmed positively when `c10@felhom.eu` rendered a correct `@` and `.`.
- The recorded boot-order trap: `--boot` set in its **own** `qm set` after the disks existed and
verified from `qm config`; flipped to `order=scsi0` post-install and verified again.
Only `scsi0` was attached during the install, so the installer offered exactly one target and could
not reach a data drive. The 50 G drives were attached afterwards.
**A2** — the installer's root password stops working at day-0; it is replaced by a hub-vaulted
managed credential (`vaulted break-glass recovery credential … secret 32 chars`), retrieved via
`POST /hosts/c10-soak-8a405e/reveal-recovery-credential`. R-119 confirmed live again: the claim code
is emailed-only and the operator relayed it — the single human step.
**A3** — both drives enrolled through **the real endpoint** (`POST /api/storage/attach`), which does
format → assign → guest-attach → register-stable-path in order:
| Drive | Device | Stable path | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| `adatok` | `/dev/sdb` | `/mnt/felhom-drives/adatok` | app data, `set_default` |
| `mentes` | `/dev/sdc` | `/mnt/felhom-drives/mentes` | **backup target** (PVE storage `felhom-backup` at `/mnt/mentes`) |
A false start worth recording: hand-driving `format` + `assign` first left the drives **mounted but
unregistered** — invisible to both the raw-candidate scan and `/disks`, so the real enroll endpoint
could not resolve a UUID for them (`resolveEnrollUUID` sees neither list). Backed out (eject leaves
the raw `/mnt/<name>` mount by design, `disks.go:606`, so the mounts also had to be undone) and re-ran
the real flow clean. **The lesson is the brief's own:** use the real endpoint, or manufacture a state
the product never produces.
Backup-target offer flow (R-112/R-114/E-2) exercised as the customer would: assign returned
`restart_required: true`, and the state only flipped after the agent restart it asked for —
before: {"degraded":true, "target":"local", "offer_path":"/mnt/felhom-drives/adatok", "message":"A rendszermentés jelenleg ugyanazon a lemezen van…"}
after: {"degraded":false,"known":true,"label":"Mentes","target":"felhom-backup"}
That healthy read is the **I5/I6 baseline**: everything healthy ⇒ no degraded banner, target reads
healthy, zero absent events.
**Apps — four, healthy, covering both sides of D5's split:**
| App | Data | Secret classes | Why chosen |
|---|---|---|---|
| **rallly** | postgres (`rallly-postgres`) | 2 × `type: secret` (`SECRET_PASSWORD` hex:32 labelled *Titkosítási kulcs*, `DB_PASSWORD`) | the DB app; travelling class |
| **homebox** | sqlite volume | 1 × `secret`, **`data_key: true`** | data-encrypting key |
| **papra** | see **R-156** | 1 × `secret`, **`data_key: true`** | data-encrypting key |
| **grafana** | volume | 1 × **`type: password`** | **the withheld class — I10's negative half** |
4 travelling `secret` fields and 1 `password` field that must never travel, so I10 can assert both
directions rather than only the positive one.
**A4 — discriminators work.** Every app carries a generation marker; a full seed/read cycle returns
the seeded generation from all four. rallly's is a row in a `cc_proof` table read over **the path
`DATABASE_URL` actually names** (`docker run --network container:rallly … psql -h rallly-postgres`),
never `127.0.0.1` inside the postgres container — the trusted-socket path that produced D5's §1.2
false pass.
---
## 4b. Phase B — the soak
Three passes. Run 2a was stopped deliberately at cycle 10 when two violations turned out to be
**harness** defects (§4d); the harness was fixed and red-proofed, and run 2b restarted from cycle 1
with the full atom set.
| Pass | Cycles | Atoms | Violations |
|---|---|---|---|
| **run 1** | 27 | 6 families | **0** |
| **run 2a** | 10 | 13 families | 2 — both **harness**, §4d |
| **run 2b** | **39** | 13 families | 9 (see below) |
**Run 2b — 875 invariant rows over 39 cycles, 13.5 h, ended on its own deadline.** No watchdog halt,
no atom exception, no I11 breach.
| Check | PASS | VIOL | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| **I7** | **38** | **0** | + 1 `I7-SKIP` — the fixed harness declining to judge, not a false green |
| I1 / I1-pair | 37 / 36 | 2 / 3 | one 3-cycle window, **self-recovered** — §5.3 |
| I2 / I2-pair | 39 / 39 | 0 / 0 | |
| I3 / I3-abort | 78 / 4 | 0 | |
| I4 / I4-abort / -recover | 78 / 4 / 4 | 0 | |
| I5 / I6 | 39 / 39 | 0 | |
| I10 | **195** | 0 | 5 secret-class fields × 39 |
| I11 | 39 | 0 | |
| I1-under-load / -recover | 5 / 5 | **0** | target pulled **during** a running backup |
| BACKUP / KILL-CTRL | 82 / 39 | 0 | |
| KILL-AGENT / REBOOT / REBOOT-VM | 5 / 5 / 5 | 0 | |
| CONCURRENCY / FILL-DRIVE | 5 / 5 | 0 | |
| HARD-RESET | 2 | **3** | **R-157** |
| REDEPLOY | 38 | 1 | harness: 5-min wait too short under load; the app returned just after |
**The full atom set ran this time.** The six families run 1 skipped are all present: filesystem
aborted in place (R-117 Q7), kill-agent-mid-backup, hard-reset-mid-write, reboot-VM, both concurrency
atoms, and fill-drive-near-full. The run-1 flaw where `reboot` was appended *after* the shuffle — so it
never interleaved with a detach — was fixed; heavy atoms are now permuted in.
**Two results worth naming.** `I1-under-load` passed 5/5: pulling the backup target **while a backup
was running** still produced `backup_target_absent` and a clean recovery. And `I4-abort` / `I3-abort`
passed 4/4 — R-117's Q7 case, the one its spike called *"the worse half"*, holds (details in
`../tests/campaign10-evidence-2026-07-31/r117-q7-abort-in-place.md`).
## 4d. Two violations that were the HARNESS, not the product
Recorded because **a check that fails for the wrong reason is as corrosive as one that passes for the
wrong reason**, and this arc already has six of the latter. Full write-up:
`../tests/campaign10-evidence-2026-07-31/run2a-violations-were-harness.md`.
Run 2a cycle 10 reported `HARD-RESET canaries_intact=False` and, worse, **`I7` claiming a stale
restore** (`want=C10-C010-A got=C10-C009-A, restore_ok=True`). The `cc_proof` table settled it: its
highest row was `C10-C009-A` — **there was no `C010-A` row at all**, so the seed never landed, because
the hard reset earlier in the same cycle had left `rallly` `Exited`. `atom_restore_verify` called
`seed()` without checking its return; `atom_hard_reset_mid_write` read canaries out of app containers
that were still starting.
**A real stale restore would have produced a byte-identical journal row**, which is why this justified
stopping a running 10-cycle pass rather than annotating it. Fixed with `apps_ready()`, `seed(verify=True)`
(read-back), and an `I7-SKIP` verdict so a skipped check is never silently a green one — red-proofed
both directions before restarting. Run 2b's single `I7-SKIP` is that fix working.
## 4c. Primitives proven by hand before automation
| Step | Observed |
|---|---|
| backup | `POST /api/backup/run` → `Mentés elindítva`, settles in ~23–34 s |
| restore | `POST /backup/restore` (form) is **async**; polled on `/api/backup/restore-status`, never `IsRunning()` |
| I7, first proof | seeded A → backup → seeded B → restored A; rallly returned **A** while the other three still read **B** |
| I1 | `backup_target_absent (error) — A rendszermentés meghajtója nem érhető el: Mentes` |
| I2 | `storage_disconnected (error) — Meghajtó váratlanul leválasztva: Adatok` |
| I6 degraded copy | *"A rendszermentés meghajtója nem érhető el — amíg vissza nem csatlakoztatod, a teljes rendszermentés nem készül el."* |
| I10 | rallly `DB_PASSWORD`+`SECRET_PASSWORD`, homebox `HBOX_AUTH_API_KEY_PEPPER`, papra `AUTH_SECRET` present; grafana `GF_SECURITY_ADMIN_PASSWORD` **absent**; unit mode `0600` |
## 5. Findings
### R-156 — papra's data is neither persisted nor backed up, and it reports healthy
**New. Register grepped first:** papra appears in R-41 (never-deployable / healthcheck) and R-127
(`data_key` misclassification); neither covers this. *(Also corrected en route: a first grep suggested
R-164 was taken — it is a mis-citation of controller **v0.164.0**, already flagged in
`REPORT-record-correction-2026-07-29.md:141`. Highest real number is R-155, so this is R-156.)*
The template mounts `papra_data:/app/data`, but the app persists to **`/app/app-data/db/db.sqlite`**.
The mounted volume is therefore empty, and the real database lives in the container's writable layer.
Evidence (`r156-papra-volume.txt`), all four legs measured:
1. volume papra_papra_data -> /app/data
2. uid=999(nonroot); drwxr-xr-x 2 root root /app/data
touch: cannot touch '/app/data/.w': Permission denied
3. /app/data contains only the canary this campaign wrote AS ROOT
4. /app/app-data/db/db.sqlite 475136 bytes owned nonroot <-- the real DB, in no volume
5. health status: "healthy"
**Consequences.** (a) papra's documents do not survive `docker compose down`/redeploy/host restore —
the writable layer is not persisted. (b) `DumpAppVolumes` dumps the volume, so papra is **backed up
as an empty directory**: its Tier-1/Tier-2 backup is real, verifiable, and contains nothing. (c) The
healthcheck only probes the HTTP port, so none of this surfaces — the app is green throughout.
This is the *presence is not success* family from `CLAUDE.md`: a backup exists, a healthcheck passes,
and neither means the data is there. It is also a second instance of the pattern R-41 names — an app
that deploys and looks fine while being fundamentally broken.
**Two-repo shape**, if fixed: the volume target belongs in `app-catalog-felhom.eu`, and the general
defence is a catalog gate asserting each template's mounted volume is a path the app actually writes.
**Not fixed here** — the fences forbid it, and a fix mid-run would prove a version that did not exist
when the run started.
### R-157 — bootrecon's start-ONCE sweep acts on an unsettled snapshot; the boot orphan survives
**New. Register grepped: R-52 is the feature, nothing covers its timing.** **INTERMITTENT — 3 of 6
hard resets (~50%)** across two runs, with an identical signature each time. (An earlier draft called
this deterministic because the failing cycle numbers matched; they matched only because the runner's
RNG is seeded. Intermittency is what a race predicts and a wrong predicate does not.) Full evidence:
`../tests/campaign10-evidence-2026-07-31/r157-bootrecon-start-once-race.md`.
A `qm reset` mid-backup brought everything back **except the app half of the DB-backed stack**:
`rallly` left `Exited (255)` (`oom=false`, `restarts=0`, its own log ending `✓ Ready` — it died
healthy) while `rallly-postgres` returned healthy.
20:28:13 Status refresh: 8 containers across 55 stacks <-- docker ps -a shows NINE
20:28:18 [bootrecon] Boot reconciliation: no boot-orphaned apps (nothing to start)
20:28:25 Status refresh: 7 containers … 8 containers <-- still churning AFTER the sweep
20:39:14 [deadapp] 20 scans since boot, 5 deployed app(s) evaluated, 1 currently down
The predicate is not at fault — once settled the controller reports `rallly state=degraded
containers=2`, and `IsDownState` includes `StateDegraded` (`manager.go:55`), so
`len(Containers)>0 && IsDownState(State)` holds. **The snapshot was**: bootrecon fires as
`go runBootReconcile(...)` (`cmd/controller/main.go:236`) ~5 s after start, while docker is still
restoring containers, and is start-once by design so it never re-checks.
**Consequence: the app stays down indefinitely.** Detection is perfect and recovery never happens —
exactly R-52's original shape, *an alarm with no recovery* (F5: two apps Exited for ~18 h). In run 2a
the app only returned because a later campaign atom redeployed it. **Not fixed** — the fences forbid
it, and the settle-condition fix belongs with a test that pins the *consequence*.
### 5.2 — Investigated and DISPROVED: `/api/disks` reports `state=attached` for an absent drive
Recorded because the *chase* is the useful artefact, not because anything is broken.
With `adatok` physically removed, `/api/disks` kept reporting `state: "attached"` for it across three
polls (~90 s) — while `/dev/sdb` was gone, `/mnt/adatok` was absent from `/proc/mounts`, and the guest
bind returned `Input/output error`. The other fields were right (`backing_device: ""`,
`guest_attached: false`, `bound_under_parent: false`).
It looked like the R-116/R-117 family, and there is a real consumer:
`internal/web/intermediary.go:230` — `present[d.MountPath] |= d.State == "attached"`. A presence gate
reading an absent drive as present is precisely I3's failure mode.
**It is inert, and the gate is correct.** `planDriveGates` only gates paths under
`StableParentDir+"/"` (`/mnt/felhom-drives/…`). The registered path is the **stable** one, whose
presence is computed from `d.BoundUnderParent` — observed **false** — not from `State`. The
`State`-derived entry is keyed on the **raw** `/mnt/adatok`, which is not a registered stable path, so
the loop skips it. The observable end-to-end behaviour agrees: the storage page showed
*"Meghajtó leválasztva: Adatok"* with a disconnect timestamp and a reconnect action, i.e. the gate fired.
The stale `state` field comes from the **registry** row surviving in the union after the
storage-observation row drops out (a raw enrolled drive is not a PVE storage), carrying its configured
`MountPath`. **No `R-n` minted** — no consumer is misled, and the R-116 comment's claim that this
"cannot make the gate read an absent drive as PRESENT" held under test.
### 5.3 — Investigated and DISPROVED: the `backup_target_*` pair going silent
Five I1/I1-pair violations in a ~10-minute window looked like R-116's unmatchable pair returning.
It is not. Full write-up: `../tests/campaign10-evidence-2026-07-31/RESOLVED-backup-target-pair-went-silent.md`.
The violations **cluster at cycles 31-33 and nowhere else** in 39 cycles; c34-c39 are clean, so it
recovered with no intervention. On the quiesced box afterwards, one slow detach with 4 minutes either
side produced a perfect pair (`backup_target_absent` → `backup_target_restored` → `health_recovered`).
And the alarming false-healthy I sampled alongside it (`mentes bound_under_parent=False` while
`degraded: false`) **does not survive quiescence** — three minutes after the run both drives read
`bound=True` and the target read healthy. I had been reading the two halves at different instants of
a detach. **No `R-n`.**
### 5.4 — Investigated and DISPROVED: the hub's `SQLITE_BUSY` event drops
[ERROR] Failed to save event from c10-soak: database is locked (5) (SQLITE_BUSY)
7 in 24 h, **including one for the real customer `demo-felhom`**, so not a campaign artefact. The hub
returns HTTP 500 on the failed save (`hub/internal/api/handler.go:1715`) and dispatches notifications
only *after* a successful save — so a genuinely lost event would be a lost alarm.
**But the controller retries 3×, and zero events exhausted their attempts** across the whole run
(`grep -c "Event push failed after 3 attempts"` = 0). The 07:04:39 drop landed 3 s later at 07:04:42,
same event. **Nothing was lost. No `R-n`.** One cosmetic note kept: `[ERROR] Failed to save event`
reads like data loss and is not.
### Not filed
- **demo-hp SSH key** — already R-129.
- **Tier 3 isolation** — §3; two recorded deliberate positions, not a defect.
- **`/api/disks` `state`** — §5.2, disproved.
- **`backup_target_*` silence** — §5.3, transient and self-recovered.
- **hub `SQLITE_BUSY` drops** — §5.4, absorbed by the controller's retry.
- **F-CRIT-1 (`StateStopped` assumed deliberate)** — confirmed live again via R-157 mechanism B, but
already recorded in `CLAUDE.md`'s false-invariant table; **not re-filed**.
---
## 6. RTO/RPO — measured
**66 restores across run 1 and run 2b. Every one returned the correct discriminator.**
| Tier | App | Data volume | n | min | median | p90 | max | mean |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tier 1 (local) | rallly (postgres) | 66 MB volume / 67 MB unit | 28 (run 1) | 38.8 s | **42.0 s** | 42.5 s | 44.3 s | 42.0 s |
| Tier 1 (local) | rallly (postgres) | 66 MB | **38 (run 2b)** | 29.1 s | **41.4 s** | 42.1 s | 49.6 s | 40.7 s |
The two independent passes agree to **0.6 s on the median**, and run 2b's wider spread (29.1–49.6 s
against 38.8–44.3 s) is the cost of measuring under hard resets, agent kills and a near-full drive.
### M band — measured 2026-08-02
The S figures could not speak for M, so a second point was taken **327× larger, same app, same
method**. Full evidence: `../tests/campaign10-evidence-2026-07-31/rto-m-band-2026-08-02.md`.
| rep | volume | backup | recovery unit | **RTO to correct data** | discriminator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 21 616 MB | 406.4 s | 41 149 MB | **624.5 s** | correct |
| 2 | 21 615 MB | 387.2 s | 41 133 MB | **591.8 s** | correct |
| **mean** | **21.1 GB** | **396.8 s** | **40.2 GB (1.90×)** | **608.1 s (10.1 min)** | **2/2** |
**327× the data cost 14.5× the time** — strongly sub-linear, so:
> **RTO ≈ 40 s + 26.9 s/GB** · **backup ≈ 29 s + 17.4 s/GB**
>
> 1 GB → 67 s · 10 GB → 5.2 min · **20 GB → 9.6 min** (measured 10.1) · 50 GB → 23 min · 100 GB → 46 min
**The fixed ~40 s dominates below ~1.5 GB** — that is the S band, and it is why the S numbers were so
tightly clustered. Above it, RTO is essentially linear in data.
### The capacity ceiling — the more consequential result
**A DB-backed app's recovery unit is 1.90× its data** (volume tar **plus** SQL dump): 21.1 GB produced
a **40.2 GB** unit. The default appliance ships `/mnt/sys_drive` at **20 GB** (`mp1 … size=20G`;
`SysDataGrowGB` is a per-customer grow, 0 for this customer). Therefore:
> **on a default box the largest app that can hold a local Tier-1/2 recovery unit is ≈ 10 GB, and that
> fills the volume completely — realistically ≈ 8 GB. The M band does not fit on a default box at
> all.** This test only reached 21 GB because `/mnt/sys_drive` was first grown to 70 G.
A sizing decision for the S/M/L tiers rather than a defect — but it is the constraint that actually
bites, and it is invisible until an app crosses it.
**Caveats, stated not buried:** two points define a line but do not test linearity (no ~5 GB point was
taken); the 1.90× is DB-app-specific and a file-only app should be nearer 1.0× — **inferred, not
measured**; the data is deliberately incompressible synthetic, so well-compressing real data moves
both numbers; one app, one shape, one box.
**RPO is still not measured.** Backups were driven on demand, not on the schedule.
---
## 6b. Monotonic growth — the half the invariants cannot see
I1–I11 are *correctness* checks: they answer "is the system telling the truth this cycle", and every
one of them can pass while something climbs. **9 457 samples of 19 metrics over 13.5 h**, following
Campaign 2's `controller_rss.tsv` precedent (`state/growth.tsv`, analyser in `runner/`).
**Leak-class — nothing grew.** Across 39 cycles containing dozens of redeploys, controller and agent
kills, guest reboots, VM reboots and hard resets:
| Metric | start → end | verdict |
|---|---|---|
| controller RSS | 105.1 → 31.8 MB (min 0 / max 132 across restarts) | no leak |
| agent RSS | 19 008 → 19 632 KB (+2.07/cycle) | no leak |
| controller fd / agent fd | 14 → 11 / 14 → 13 | no leak |
| docker volumes / images / containers | 7 → 7 / 13 → 13 / 9 → 9 | **no orphans from repeated redeploys** |
| controller restarts | 0 | — |
**Expected accumulation — all bounded and explicable:**
| Metric | start → end | note |
|---|---|---|
| **agent journal** | **193.8 → 463.4 MB** (+6.5/cycle, ~20 MB/h) | **the only curve with real slope** |
| VM qcow2 on the host | 17 439 → 24 903 MB (+7.5 GB) | matches host free space falling 7.5 GB |
| backup target `mentes` | 623 → 6 424 MB | tracks `VZDUMP_N` 3 → 11 |
| guest root / docker logs | 5 667 → 5 940 MB / 4 → 9 MB | |
Two things to watch rather than findings: the **agent journal** at ~20 MB/h (journald caps it, so it
is bounded, but it is a lot of logging); and **whole-guest dumps accumulating 3 → 11** on a 50 GB
target, which at soak rates would fill it in days — a real box does not back up this often, so this is
an artefact of the campaign's cadence rather than a defect.
**Answering the question directly: after 13.5 h and 39 destructive cycles, nothing leaks.** That is a
genuine positive result and the half a targeted session structurally cannot produce.
---
## 7. I1–I11 across cycles
Full tables in §4b. Aggregated over run 1 (27 cycles) and run 2b (39 cycles):
- **I7 — 66 restores, 66 correct discriminators, 0 stale, 0 empty.** The campaign's headline.
- **I2, I3, I4, I5, I6, I10, I11 — zero violations in either pass**, including the abort-in-place
variants and 195 + 135 secret-class assertions covering both sides of D5's split.
- **I1 — 2 violations in 39 cycles**, one self-recovering 3-cycle window under cycling far faster than
a real box sees (§5.3, disproved as a defect).
- **I8 — never checked.** Tier 3 could not be isolated (§3).
- **I9 — not automated.** Cited from the tester-gate run on this same controller 0.188.0, not
re-claimed as this campaign's work.
**A clean invariant is a result**: I2's genericity, I1's discrimination, both pairings, I4's
no-restart repair and I7's discriminator held across **66 cycles** of detach, reattach, abort,
backup, restore, kill, redeploy, reboot and hard reset.
---
## 8. What did not run, and why
**Atom coverage: 12 of the brief's ~13 families ran.** Run 1 covered 6; run 2b added the rest.
| Atom (brief B1) | Ran |
|---|---|
| back up Tier 1/2 · restore + verify by discriminator · detach/reattach target · detach/reattach non-target · delete and redeploy · reboot the guest | **YES** (run 1 + 2b) |
| **abort a filesystem in place** (R-117 Q7) · **kill the agent mid-backup** · **hard-reset the VM mid-write** · **reboot the VM** · **concurrent backup+restore** · **concurrent backup+detach** · **fill a drive near-full** | **YES** (run 2b) |
| back up / restore **Tier 3** | **NO** — §3, structurally impossible to isolate |
**Still honest about two limits.** `kill_controller` is not literally "mid-backup" — it lands at a
permuted point, so it exercises recovery rather than the mid-write race; the dedicated
`concurrent backup+detach` atom (`I1-under-load`, 5/5 PASS) covers the mid-operation case properly.
And **I9** — a Tier-1/2 restore with the guest's `app.yaml` moved aside — was **not automated**; it
was proven on this same controller 0.188.0 by the tester-gate run and is cited, not re-claimed.
**Depth reached: 39 consecutive cycles**, past the brief's "the state that quietly drifts on the
thirty-eighth". Cycles 34–39 were clean on every invariant. Beyond 39 is untested, not proven clean.
---
## 9. Teardown — OWED, nothing removed yet
The rig is intact **on purpose**, so Phase B can run without repeating Phase A. Every item below is
outstanding and must be removed when the campaign ends:
| Layer | Item | Command |
|---|---|---|
| VM | `311 c10-appliance` on demo-hp | `qm stop 311 && qm destroy 311 --purge` |
| storage | `c10-scratch` dir storage | `pvesm remove c10-scratch` |
| PBS | datastore `felhom-c10`, user `c10@pbs`, token `!box`, both ACLs | `proxmox-backup-manager datastore remove felhom-c10` · `user delete c10@pbs` · remove `/mnt/5_hdd/backup/campaign10` |
| restic | subaccount **`u629488-sub4`** (`felhom-campaign10`) on box 611714 — **unused, since Tier 3 never ran** | `DELETE /v1/storage_boxes/611714/subaccounts/281530` |
| **hub** | **customer `c10-soak`** — **disposition: DELETE.** Named explicitly per R-131, which is four orphaned scratch customers left by exactly this omission | `POST /configs/c10-soak/delete` with `ack_hosts=1 ack_reset=1 ack_purge=1 confirm_id=c10-soak` |
| secrets | `~/.config/campaign10/` on DooPlex (host + dashboard passwords, API key, app secrets, PBS token, restic password); `/root/c10/` and `/root/c10api.sh` in guest 9201 | `shred -u` both |
`sess-f` ("R-120 golden 0.186.0 proof") is still present and is **not** this run's record — R-131
stands, untouched.
---
## 10. Hygiene note
The customer API key for `c10-soak` was printed into this session's transcript while being read from
the hub page. It belongs to a scratch customer scheduled for deletion (§9) and grants nothing once
that record is gone, but the write-out was avoidable and is recorded here rather than left implicit —
the same class as R-132, where a correctly-made request was undone by how it was reported.
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