A restore now leaves out measurement tombstones deleted longer ago than
the tombstone retention. The nightly purge removes exactly those rows,
the delta feed answers cursorExpired for every cursor that could still
be served one, and the consolidation repairs look only inside the same
horizon. Younger tombstones keep their readers (a lagging paired client,
the undo of a recent delete, the repairs, the duplicate guard on
re-uploaded samples) and are written as before. The backup file is
unchanged. On a seeded account of 1.89 million readings whose 1.68
million tombstones were past retention, the restore on a slowed database
took 5.4 min instead of 15.
The rollup fold after the commit rebuilt five years of buckets under the
60 s request statement limit and could be dropped on a slow disk, leaving
the charts empty until the next boot. `recomputeUserRollups` takes a
`statementTimeoutMs` that scopes each aggregate and persist transaction
with SET LOCAL, and the restore passes its after-commit allowance.
Fixture tombstones in two round-trip tests were dated in July 2026 and
had aged past the retention; they are now relative to the run.
A restore is refused before it deletes anything when its transaction limit
would run past three quarters of the job's expiry. At two hours that refused
a same-size replacement of about four million readings. The expiry is now six
hours, which admits ten million over ten million; a dead worker still frees
the account within minutes through the heartbeat, so the longer expiry does
not hold an account longer.
The refusal now names both counts, the readings in the backup and the ones the
account holds now (removed readings included until the nightly clean-up),
since clearing the latter costs time too.
A restore of an account with 1.9 million readings, most of them deleted
by the nightly consolidation and still awaiting the purge, was cancelled
in its clearing step: `DELETE FROM measurements` ran past the 60 s
statement timeout every pooled connection carries, and the whole restore
rolled back with a message that named no cause (#1031).
Most of that statement was not the delete. Two columns point into
`measurements` with ON DELETE SET NULL and had no index, so Postgres
scanned `personal_records` and `ecg_recordings` once per deleted reading:
38 of 40 s on a seeded account with 300 personal records. Migration 0362
indexes both, which also speeds up the tombstone purge and account
deletion.
The restore transaction now sets its own statement and idle-in-transaction
limits to the transaction budget with SET LOCAL, and the budget counts
the rows the account holds as well as the rows the file carries. A
rolled-back restore names what the database refused it over (timeout,
lock, constraint, storage, connection, other) on the job row, the
console, the audit row and the wide event.
A backup carries every encrypted column as the stored ciphertext, and a
restore writes it back verbatim. Key rotation re-seals the stored copy's
envelope but cannot reach inside it, so a copy taken before a rotation
still needs the retired key. Without it the restore went through and
left rows no reader can open.
The restore, the restore preview, the admin upload and the monthly
restore drill now collect the key ids of every inner ciphertext value,
hold them against ENCRYPTION_KEYS and decrypt one value per key. A
missing key, or an id configured with different key material, is
refused before anything is deleted, with the key id named. The restore
status and the preview say which key to put back.
The restore also checks, inside its transaction, that it added no
reference from the account's rows to rows another account owns. The
check is derived from the schema's foreign keys rather than written per
section, so the tag and category upserts keyed on a global key are
covered along with every link table. The illness parent update is
scoped to the owner as well.
The off-host listing now follows every page: the first page held only
the oldest dates, so the drill could read an old object and report the
chain as stale.
- Source keys carry the normalised origin of the Paperless-ngx or Papra
they came from (source_instance on the document, the alias and the
purge ledger; unique NULLS NOT DISTINCT). A key stored without one
(v1.39.2 imports) matches any instance of its system, and a lookup
without one matches any stored instance. The upload route, the lookup
route and the import script accept or send it; backups carry it.
- Saving a connection reuses the stored token only for the same origin;
a new origin needs the token again (422 tokenRequired).
- Document ids are checked against what each system issues (Paperless
digits, Papra [A-Za-z0-9_-], never . or ..) before any URL is built;
the Papra organization id likewise.
- Paperless API 9 filters dates on created__gte / created__lte, in the
picker and the script. A search page the local re-check empties reads
on, up to five source pages. Tags are read past the first 250.
- The import's key pre-check uses the lookup allowance, a failed fetch
no longer charges the upload allowance, and one import per key runs at
a time under an advisory lock, so a double click downloads once.
- Reading and deleting one's own connection works with the documents
module off and the operator list unset.
Key rotation re-sealed a single-value backup in place, which holds the
stored string, its bytes, the plaintext and the new ciphertext at once; a
copy can be over a hundred megabytes and the in-app rotation walked 25 of
them per page, enough to run a 1 GB container out of memory. Rotation now
converts each such copy into pieces under the active key instead, one row
at a time. The ~hlgcm1. stream of v1.38.6 to v1.39.1 is read a megabyte
at a time with its tag checked at the end, inside one transaction, so a
copy that fails the check is left untouched; the copy keeps its date. The
scan reads only the first characters of each value. Measured on a copy of
a 2.6 million-reading account (126 MB stored): converted in 25 s with the
heap flat at 57 MB under a 200 MB limit, where re-sealing in place ran out
of heap.
The weekly and manual backup leave an account alone while a restore of
its current copy is queued or running, and count it as skipped, not
failed. A reader whose copy is replaced mid-read answers 409
backup_changed, "replaced by a newer one while it was being read", rather
than the undecryptable error; a restore rolls back with the same code.
Pieces are sealed with a fixed associated-data label, so a value the same
key sealed for another purpose never opens as a piece; rotation re-seals
under the same label. A row holding both a single value and pieces, which
only an older release writing after a downgrade produces, is refused with
a message saying so, and the next weekly run replaces it. Rotation treats a
row deleted between its read and its write as gone rather than an error.
A stored backup was one value in data_backups.data. v1.39.1 wrote it a
piece at a time but still joined the pieces into that one value, and one
value has to pass through the app whole, so a copy was capped at a fifth of
the heap: 105 MB in the default 1 GB container. An account with 1.75
million readings is past that and could not be backed up at all (#1031).
A copy is now kept as ordered pieces of about a megabyte in the new
data_backup_chunks table (migration 0352). Each piece is sealed on its own
with AES-256-GCM, and its sealed header names the copy (a random stream id
kept on the row), its position and whether it is the last. A reader checks
every piece before it releases a byte, so a piece that is missing, moved,
altered, taken from another copy, or a copy cut short is refused with
backup.payload.undecryptable before a restore deletes anything, and the
second read during the restore checks each piece again.
The write is one transaction, so the previous copy stays whole and readable
until the new one commits. Pieces are written through the model API: a raw
query with a large parameter is kept alive by Prisma's query plan cache,
which left 160 MB of heap behind per hundred one-megabyte inserts.
Restore, preview, download, the restore job and the admin list read both
forms; copies written before this change keep their single value and still
restore. The heap-derived limit is gone. The one limit left is on storage,
BACKUP_MAX_STORED_MB (default 2048), and its message names the setting. Key
rotation covers the pieces, the wipe and account deletion take them with
their backup, and the backup plan lists the table as not carried.
Measured on an account of 2.6 million readings in a 1 GB container with web
and worker in one process: backup 87 s, 97 MiB in 96 pieces, preview 20 s,
download 25 s, restore 264 s with every reading back exactly, peak 567 MiB,
no restart.
A current disaster-recovery backup writes aggregationProvenance for every
measurement, null included. The restore treated null like a missing field
and marked every Apple Health stats: row without a provenance as
LEGACY_UNKNOWN, which is meant only for backups too old to carry the field.
The nightly daily-mean fold writes exactly such rows, so on a large Apple
Health account a restore changed tens of thousands of readings it was
supposed to put back as they were (#1031).
Only an absent field now takes the legacy path.
A keyed upload that matched a stored document by its bytes never recorded
its key, so deleting that document let the next import run store it again.
Such keys are now kept as aliases of the document, the source-key check
reads them, and the purge carries them into the ledger with the row's own.
A source key may ride the query string and is then answered before the
body is read or the hourly allowance charged; an upload answered as a
duplicate hands its slot back. GET /api/documents/inbound/source answers
whether a key is held, under the same documents:write scope, so an
importer can skip a download.
aiRead=defer is stored on the row. The summary catch-up, the summary job
and lab auto-staging skip such documents until an explicit Read with AI
or Generate summary clears the marker; backup and restore carry it.
A documents:write caller no longer sees the quota figures on a full vault.
Refs #1038
A condition (illness episode) can carry where on the body it sits, in the
person's own words and encrypted at rest, plus an optional side (LEFT,
RIGHT, BOTH). Same enum, codec and reasoning as the procedure's site.
- migration 0354: two nullable columns on illness_episodes, reusing the
laterality type from 0349
- create and edit accept bodySite and laterality; on PATCH an absent key
keeps the stored value, so an edit from the shipped iPhone app, which
never sends either field, leaves them untouched
- GET /api/body-sites: the sites the record holds across visits and
conditions, folded after the decrypt and bounded per kind; with site
(and laterality) the visits and conditions there, one hop to their
documents, lab results and visits. Read in the profile section;
conditions only under an illness grant with the module on, and links
into ungranted sections come back as unlabelled placeholders
- the link service reads document and visit links from the condition's
end of the two existing tables
- /checkups gains a Body sites tab; the visit and condition forms share
one body-site field pair that suggests sites already used; a
condition's page links its site into the view
- the doctor report, the clinician page and the MCP doctor-visit summary
name the site on conditions; the Coach illness block carries it
sanitised, and MCP get_illness_recovery returns it fenced
- backup and restore carry both fields in both file kinds; the site is
registered as ciphertext and rotates with the key
- i18n in all seven locales, OpenAPI regenerated
Refs #1025
A narrow `documents:write` token, minted cookie-only at
`POST /api/tokens/documents` and accepted by the vault upload route alone.
A scoped caller draws on its own hourly bucket per token
(`DOCUMENT_UPLOAD_LIMIT_PER_HOUR`, default 120) and gets a receipt
`{ id, duplicate }` instead of the stored row.
Uploads take optional `sourceSystem` / `sourceId` fields. The source key is
unique per account across live and deleted documents, and the tombstone
purge carries it to a small ledger, so re-sending a document the owner
deleted answers 200 `deleted: true` and stores nothing. `aiRead=defer`
indexes locally and skips the summary and lab staging.
The detail sheet shows where an imported document came from; backup and
restore carry both fields; Delete All Data clears the ledger.
Refs #1038, #938
A per-medication trackIntake flag (migration 0351, default on for every
existing and new row). With it off the dose, dates and schedule stay stored,
but nothing derives a due dose from them: the reminder worker, the manual
reminder check, the today projector, the auto-miss pass, the low-stock pass,
the doses card, the today list, the outstanding-dose badge, compliance and
its heatmap, the doctor report, the Coach, the BP-status gate, insights,
targets, achievements, the efficacy view and the MCP schedule tool all skip
it.
The medication wire serves such a medication with schedules: [] and the
stored rows in an additive recordedSchedules field, so a client that arms
local reminders from schedules stays silent without an update. Switching
tracking off or back on archives a schedule revision at that instant, the
untracked stretch with an empty payload, so it never counts as missed and
the projector does not put a dose from before the switch back on the card.
A structural guard freezes the set of schedule readers: each one filters on
the flag, derives from dueSchedules, shapes the wire with scheduleWireFields,
or is allowlisted with the reason it derives nothing due. The flag travels
through backup, restore and the medication CSV export.
Portable files exported before v1.39.1 carry no creation date for a
medication, so the restore stamped the restore time. The dose history reads
that date as the day the medication began to exist, and every miss before
it, including the day before the restore, dropped out of the record.
When the file has no creation date, the restore now uses the earliest thing
the file records for the medication: its first dose (scheduled, taken or
written), the start of its first schedule revision, its course start, its
first pause, dose change or side effect, and never a date after the restore.
A file that records nothing about the medication keeps the old default.
A restore commits its transaction and then rebuilds the chart tiers. A
worker that stopped during that rebuild left the job running with a stale
heartbeat, and the boot sweep and the admission check treated it like any
interrupted job: the sweep queued it again, so the second run deleted and
re-wrote the account and lost whatever was written in between, and a second
interruption closed it with "rolled back, nothing was changed", which was
false.
The job now records `committedAt` (added to migration 0347, which has not
shipped) and awaits that write before the rebuild starts. The sweep and the
admission check close a committed job as `failed_after_commit`, never queue
it again, and evict the account's caches. The rebuild itself is left to the
nightly and boot passes that already rebuild missing tiers.
The module comment now says what an interrupted restore does (restarted
once, then failed) and what happens to other writes while a restore runs:
new rows are written at once, updates to rows the restore already deleted
wait on their lock until it commits or rolls back.
Restoring a large account was one request: 94 s for 1.25 million readings.
A reverse proxy that cuts a request at 60 s (nginx's default) showed the
operator an error for a restore that went on to finish on the server.
The restore request now checks the typed confirmation, that the backup
exists and that its stored copy opens, admits one job for the account and
answers 202 with its id. The `backup-restore` queue runs the restore and
records its phase, counts and outcome on a `backup_restore_jobs` row
(migration 0347), which `GET /api/admin/backups/restores` and
`GET /api/admin/backups/restores/{id}` read back.
What a restore checks and writes is unchanged. The body moved from the
route into `restoreBackup` (src/lib/export/restore-backup.ts): every
refusal still happens before the first delete and the replacement is still
one transaction, so a failure part-way leaves the account as it was. While
it runs the account keeps showing its current data, and other writes are
neither refused nor held, as before.
- One restore per account: a partial unique index admits one queued or
running job, and a second request gets 409 `backup.restore.active` naming
the running job. A per-account advisory lock inside the transaction holds
even if a worker thought gone is still writing.
- Time budget: the job's expiry is two hours and a file whose transaction
limit would run past three quarters of it is refused before anything is
deleted (`jobDeadline`, beside `jobBudget`).
- Resuming: the job writes a heartbeat every two seconds. A boot sweep
queues a job whose worker stopped again from the start, at most twice,
then fails it as interrupted. The admission check releases an abandoned
job so it never holds the account's slot.
- The staged file is the stored `DataBackup` row, already encrypted at
rest. It stays whatever the outcome, so a retry needs no new upload. The
job records a digest of the copy and refuses one that was replaced while
it waited.
- Failures carry a stable code and a sentence that says what to do.
- The console follows the job: phase and counts while it runs, the outcome
after, and after a reload it finds the job again from the server. A poll
that fails on the network is never shown as a failed restore. A web
process separate from the worker evicts the account's caches when it
first reports the restore finished. The success line goes through the
outcome module, so an empty file is not drawn as a tick.
The model is registered in the backup plan (not carried) and the wipe plan
(wiped with the account); the queue in the maintenance registrar, the
subsystem surface and the job-fact allowlist; the new code in the error
catalogue; the routes in the OpenAPI contract. The tests that pin restore
semantics now drive the real route and the real job through one helper, and
`backup-restore-job.test.ts` pins the asynchronous contract itself.
Marc-André Bombeck