#!/usr/bin/env bash # # Daily backup of ~/Server to the home server, as hardlinked dated snapshots. # # WHAT THIS FIXES vs. the old version (2026-09-17): # 1. OWNERSHIP. Rootless podman leaves most container data owned by subuids # (gitea = 525288, postgres data = the userns root mapping). Plain `rsync -a` # running as gib cannot chown on the far side, so every previous backup landed # 100% owned by uid 1000. Restoring that gives you the right bytes with the wrong # owners: postgres refuses to start unless PGDATA is owned correctly, and gitea # fails on its own data dir. Fixed with `-M--fake-super`, which makes the REMOTE # rsync stash mode/uid/gid in a user.rsync.%stat xattr (verified working on the # home server's ZFS). Restore with --fake-super on the read side to put them back. # 2. CONSISTENCY. 13 SQLite DBs and a live postgres were copied hot, mid-write. Now # dumped properly first (sqlite3 .backup / pg_dumpall) into _backup_state/. # 3. SPACE / HISTORY. Every run was a full ~19G copy into a new dated directory. # Now it rsyncs into ONE stable directory, `current/`, and versioning is left to # the home server: Media/Server_Backup is its own ZFS dataset with zfs-auto-snapshot # keeping 14 dailies. ZFS snapshots are block-level, so a database that changes a # few pages costs a few pages -- not a whole new copy the way dated dirs (or even # rsync --link-dest hardlinks, which are per-file) would. # # Containers keep running throughout. That is safe *because* of the dumps above -- # the dumps, not the raw data dirs, are the authoritative restore path. # # See RESTORE.md for how to bring this back on a new machine. set -uo pipefail REMOTE_HOST="gib@server.gib" REMOTE_ROOT="/home/gib/Public/Server_Backup/Containers/lilman.gib" SOURCE="$HOME/Server/" STATE_DIR="$HOME/Server/_backup_state" DEST_NAME="current" # One stable directory. ZFS snapshots provide history. LOG_DIR="$HOME/Server/logs" LOG="$LOG_DIR/backup.log" LOCK="${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR:-/tmp}/server-backup.lock" # Versioning is ZFS's job, not ours -- see the header. We only sanity-check that it is # actually still happening, so this can never silently degrade into a single mirror with # no history. Warn if the newest snapshot of the dataset is older than this. REMOTE_DATASET="Media/Server_Backup" SNAPSHOT_MAX_AGE_HOURS=48 mkdir -p "$LOG_DIR" log() { printf '%s %s\n' "$(date +'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')" "$*" | tee -a "$LOG"; } die() { log "FATAL: $*"; exit 1; } # Refuse to overlap with a still-running backup rather than corrupting a snapshot. exec 9>"$LOCK" || die "cannot open lock $LOCK" flock -n 9 || die "another backup is already running" EXCLUSIONS=( # --- build noise ------------------------------------------------------- # NOTE: these are bare patterns, so they match at ANY depth. Today they only # catch genuine scratch dirs (checked 2026-09-17). If you add a service whose # real data lives in a dir called cache/build/dist/tmp, it will be silently # skipped -- re-check this list when adding services. "node_modules" ".git" "*.log" "*.tmp" ".cache" "cache" "tmp" "temp" ".npm" ".yarn" "dist" "build" "target" ".venv" "venv" "__pycache__" "*.pyc" ".DS_Store" "Thumbs.db" "vendor" "*.mp4" "*.mkv" # --- unreadable to gib, and genuinely disposable ------------------------ # Redis/valkey cache dumps: mode 0600 under a subuid because the container # chowns its own data. Pure cache (usesend + infisical), regenerated on boot. "dump.rdb" # Gitea runs WITHOUT userns_mode (s6 needs container-root -- see AGENTS.md §3), # so these are subuid-owned and mode 0700. Excluding them is what lets this run # without sudo. Nothing here is needed to restore gitea: # sessions/ ephemeral web logins; worst case everyone logs in again # issues.bleve search index, rebuilt from the DB on demand # Gitea/ssh a 25-byte `environment` file for the git shell # # ⚠️ The SSH HOST KEYS are NOT here -- they live in Gitea/volume/ssh, are # gib-owned, and DO get backed up. Losing those = host-key mismatch for every client. "sessions" "issues.bleve" "Gitea/ssh" # Mode 0600 under subuid 525288, so unreadable to gib -- this single file is what # made every previous run exit 23. It is NOT disposable (it holds the MCP bridge's # registered OAuth clients), so it is captured via `podman exec` into # _backup_state/files/ instead of being read off disk. "BillTracker/data/mcp/bridge.json" # Stirling-PDF writes this 0600 under subuid 525287 (since its 2026-09-25 update), # which made every run since exit 23. Excluded rather than captured: losing it only # means re-entering any credentials stored in Stirling-PDF. "pdf-tools/extraConfigs/credential-encryption.key" ) EXCLUDE_ARGS=() for e in "${EXCLUSIONS[@]}"; do EXCLUDE_ARGS+=( "--exclude=$e" ); done # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Phase 1: consistent dumps of everything transactional. # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- dump_state() { log "Dumping databases to _backup_state/ ..." rm -rf "$STATE_DIR" mkdir -p "$STATE_DIR"/{postgres,sqlite,files} printf 'Generated %s by ~/Server/backup. Authoritative restore source -- see RESTORE.md\n' \ "$(date -Is)" > "$STATE_DIR/README" # Live postgres (serves npm, authentik, usesend, ... -- pg_dumpall gets all of them). if podman ps --format '{{.Names}}' | grep -qx postgresql; then if podman exec postgresql pg_dumpall -U npm 2>>"$LOG" | gzip -9 > "$STATE_DIR/postgres/all.sql.gz"; then log " postgres: $(du -h "$STATE_DIR/postgres/all.sql.gz" | cut -f1)" else log " WARNING: pg_dumpall failed -- raw pg_data is still copied, but is a hot copy" fi else log " WARNING: postgresql container not running, skipping pg_dumpall" fi # SQLite: .backup uses the online backup API, so this is safe while containers write. local n=0 while IFS= read -r db; do # *.db also matches stirling-pdf's H2 database, which is not SQLite. Check magic. head -c 16 "$db" 2>/dev/null | grep -q "SQLite format 3" || continue local rel="${db#"$HOME"/Server/}" out out="$STATE_DIR/sqlite/$rel" mkdir -p "$(dirname "$out")" if sqlite3 -cmd ".timeout 30000" "$db" ".backup '$out'" 2>>"$LOG"; then n=$((n+1)); else log " WARNING: sqlite dump failed: $rel"; fi done < <(find "$HOME/Server" -path "$STATE_DIR" -prune -o \ -type f \( -name '*.db' -o -name '*.sqlite' -o -name '*.sqlite3' \) -print 2>/dev/null) log " sqlite: $n databases" # Files gib cannot read off disk, pulled through their container instead. if podman ps --format '{{.Names}}' | grep -qx bill-tracker-mcp; then podman exec bill-tracker-mcp cat /data/bridge.json \ > "$STATE_DIR/files/BillTracker--data--mcp--bridge.json" 2>>"$LOG" \ && log " bridge.json captured" \ || log " WARNING: could not capture bridge.json" fi } # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Phase 2: confirm ZFS is still providing history. # # We deliberately overwrite one directory instead of keeping dated copies, which # means ZFS snapshots are the ONLY thing standing between us and "a mirror of a # mistake". If auto-snapshot ever stops, that must be loud, not silent. # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- check_zfs_history() { local newest now age_h newest=$(ssh -o BatchMode=yes "$REMOTE_HOST" \ "zfs list -H -p -o creation -t snapshot -s creation -d 1 '$REMOTE_DATASET' 2>/dev/null | tail -1" || true) if [ -z "$newest" ]; then log " ⚠️ WARNING: no ZFS snapshots on $REMOTE_DATASET -- this backup has NO history." log " It is a plain mirror right now. Check zfs-auto-snapshot on the home server." return fi now=$(date +%s) age_h=$(( (now - newest) / 3600 )) if [ "$age_h" -gt "$SNAPSHOT_MAX_AGE_HOURS" ]; then log " ⚠️ WARNING: newest ZFS snapshot is ${age_h}h old (limit ${SNAPSHOT_MAX_AGE_HOURS}h) -- versioning may be broken." else log " ZFS history OK (newest snapshot ${age_h}h old, 14 dailies retained)" fi } # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Phase 3: mirror. # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- log "=== backup start -> $REMOTE_HOST:$REMOTE_ROOT/$DEST_NAME ===" ssh -o BatchMode=yes -o ConnectTimeout=15 "$REMOTE_HOST" "mkdir -p '$REMOTE_ROOT/$DEST_NAME'" \ || die "cannot reach $REMOTE_HOST" dump_state check_zfs_history # --delete/--delete-excluded keep `current` an exact mirror of the source. Anything # removed here still exists in yesterday's ZFS snapshot, so this is not destructive. rsync -a --numeric-ids -M--fake-super --delete --delete-excluded \ --human-readable --stats \ "${EXCLUDE_ARGS[@]}" \ --rsync-path="mkdir -p '$REMOTE_ROOT/$DEST_NAME' && rsync" \ "$SOURCE" "$REMOTE_HOST:$REMOTE_ROOT/$DEST_NAME/" 2>&1 | tee -a "$LOG" status=${PIPESTATUS[0]} # 24 = "source files vanished during transfer". Normal on a live system, not a failure. if [ "$status" -ne 0 ] && [ "$status" -ne 24 ]; then die "rsync failed with exit $status -- 'current' may be half-updated; yesterday's ZFS snapshot is still good" fi [ "$status" -eq 24 ] && log "NOTE: rsync exit 24 (files vanished mid-run) -- expected on a live system" # Optional heartbeat so a silent failure cannot go unnoticed. Create the file with an # uptime-kuma push URL in it and this pings on success only; absent, nothing happens. if [ -r "$HOME/Server/.backup-heartbeat-url" ]; then url=$(< "$HOME/Server/.backup-heartbeat-url") curl -fsS -m 20 "$url" >/dev/null 2>&1 \ && log "Heartbeat sent" || log "NOTE: heartbeat ping failed (backup itself was fine)" fi log "=== backup complete ==="