The shortest value either codec writes is 40 base64 characters. A
shorter string under an ...Encrypted member is not ciphertext, and
reading it as a legacy value would have made a restore demand the v1
key for a field that holds none.
The admin wipe of every account is the operator clearing their own host,
and the bucket's copies are the documented way back from a wipe pressed
by mistake, so it writes no off-host deletion request. Deleting an
account, deleting a managed profile and "Delete all data" still do.
The backup runbook no longer says the worker never deletes an object: it
lists the grant the worker needs (DeleteObject included), when objects
are deleted, the version-4 envelope, the lifecycle check and how to
rotate the off-host key. The rotation runbook no longer says backups are
covered: rotation reaches a backup's envelope, not the content a restore
writes back, and a retired key stays needed until no backup lists it.
The privacy notice beside account deletion says the same about off-host
copies.
A failed import records its failure in a plain try block, and the
extraction test that inflates past the 64 MiB floor gets the time it
needs on a loaded runner.
Off-host objects are now written as envelope version 4: the header names
the off-host key by fingerprint, and the object's key in the bucket
(<date>/user-<id>.json.enc) is authenticated as GCM associated data, so
a copy moved to another account or another night no longer opens.
Objects of versions 1 to 3 still read. BACKUP_ENCRYPTION_PREVIOUS_KEYS
(comma-separated, on the compose whitelist and in the env manifest)
keeps retired off-host keys readable, which is the rotation path the
off-host key did not have.
The admin backup upload counted the bytes that arrived and none after
the gunzip, so a small gzip could expand without limit into the JSON
scanner and take the app down. The inflated bytes are now held to 100
times the compressed bytes read (at least 256 MB, at most 4 GB) and a
file past that is refused with 413 before anything is stored.
Sealing a readable Coach title or custom-metric note while building a
disaster-recovery file gave each export a fresh IV, so the streaming
writer and the materialising builder no longer produced the same file.
A row the free-text backfill has not reached yet now rides as stored,
readable, inside the encrypted backup; the restore seals it, and a
migrated row carries its ciphertext verbatim as before.
Deleting an account, deleting a managed profile, "Delete all data" and the
admin wipe now write an off-host deletion request in the same transaction
as the deletion. A new job (offhost-backup-purge, kicked straight away and
run nightly as a backstop) lists the bucket once, deletes every
<date>/user-<id>.json.enc object of each pending account and removes the
request only when nothing of the account is left. A refused delete keeps
the request with the bucket's answer and is retried; the off-host card
shows how many deletions are outstanding and why. A copy the nightly run
was writing while the account was deleted is taken back after the upload.
The off-host card also reads the bucket's lifecycle rule and says plainly
when there is none (every nightly copy kept forever) or when the
credential may not read it.
Every stored backup now records the key ids its content was written
under, and every off-host upload records the same per key. The admin
encryption view lists, per key, the stored copies that need it with the
oldest date, and when the last off-host copy needing it expires. The
"safe to drop" badge now requires that no backup still needs a retired
key, instead of only that every row was rotated.
Migration 0358 adds data_backups.inner_key_ids, the key-use table and the
deletion requests.
The title of a Coach conversation is the first 80 characters of the
opening message, and the note on a custom-metric reading is free text;
both were stored readable while every other note was encrypted.
Migration 0357 adds coach_conversations.title_encrypted and
custom_metric_entries.note_encrypted (the title loses its NOT NULL) plus
partial indexes on the backfill's discovery predicate. Every writer now
stores ciphertext only: conversation create, proactive nudge, reminder
surfacing, rename, entry create and edit, and both restore formats.
Readers prefer the ciphertext and fall back to the old column for rows
not yet migrated; a ciphertext that does not open throws instead of
falling back. The history title search decrypts in memory, since SQL can
no longer match the title.
free-text-encryption-backfill is a boot-time, idempotent pg-boss job
(staggered past the startup storm, daily discovery tick) that seals each
remaining readable value and nulls it in one transaction per row. A pass
that sees a row twice stops with an error instead of looping.
Both columns are registered for key rotation (registry, CLI script, and
the in-app rotation that walks the registry). A disaster-recovery backup
carries ciphertext only, sealing a not-yet-migrated row on the way out;
a portable export carries readable text. The old columns are marked for
removal in a later release.
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.
A person stores one connection per system (base address, Papra
organization id, API token encrypted at rest) and can search it by
document name with tag and date filters, then import picked documents
one per request through the same ingest path as an upload: source-key
answer before any download, content dedup, deleted stays deleted, quota,
provenance, and the person's own AI reading setting. An import can link
the document to the visit, condition or vaccination it was picked for.
The operator lists the instances in DOCUMENT_SOURCE_ORIGINS; unset, the
feature is off. Only listed origins are contacted, through safeFetch with
the origin pinned, redirects refused, timeouts and byte caps. The routes
are cookie-only and owner-only. The token is registered for rotation,
removed by Delete all data, and not carried in backups.
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.
An uploaded file whose encrypted copy passes the size one stored backup may
have on this host (a fifth of the heap limit) stopped the store with
BackupBlobTooLargeError, which the route let through as a 500 and reported
to the error tracker. It is now a 413 with the numbers and the remedy in the
message and meta.errorCode backup.upload.too_large, and the refusal is
audited like the others. The store rolls back, so nothing is kept.
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.
A visit can be filed as a procedure or surgery (new EncounterKind
PROCEDURE) and carry a body site in the person's own words, encrypted at
rest, plus an optional side (LEFT, RIGHT, BOTH). An existing visit
switches to the new kind by an ordinary edit, keeping its date, reason,
outcome and links.
- migration 0349: enum value, laterality type, two nullable columns
- GET /api/encounters/procedures: the DONE procedures, newest first,
searched after the decrypt over site, side and reason, with body-site
choices and a total computed over the whole history
- create and edit accept bodySite and laterality on any kind
- /checkups gains a Procedures tab with a body-site filter; the visit
form offers the site for a procedure and keeps it in view on any
visit that carries one
- backup and restore carry both fields; the body site is registered as
ciphertext and rotates with the key
- MCP get_visits narrows by kind and reads the whole record for
procedures when no window is named; the Coach visit block names a
procedure's site
- i18n in all seven locales, OpenAPI regenerated
Refs #1025
Each `createManyAndReturn` flush of the export import left about 5 MB of
heap behind until some two dozen calls had piled up. A 300 000-record
synthetic import under a 524 MB heap settled at 53 MB retained; a run of
back-to-back 600-row calls with nothing between them reached 212 MB.
Spot rows now go through the column-array `INSERT … SELECT FROM unnest`
the restore already uses, with `ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING RETURNING`, which
is what `createMany({ skipDuplicates })` emits. The same import holds
11.5 MB and finishes in 35 s instead of 55 s. Ids are minted in the
cuid() shape, defaults are written as the client would write them, and
integration tests compare the returned rows and the resulting table with
`createManyAndReturn` for fresh rows, conflicts on either unique
identity, and duplicates inside one call.
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.
An account of 1.25 million measurements could not export its data or be
restored from any backup (#1031). Measured in a 1 GB container:
- The full export and the passphrase export built the whole payload and
its JSON string in memory; the app ran out of heap and restarted.
- The weekly backup's JSON is 662 MB, longer than any string V8 can hold,
so `unpackBackupBlob` threw on every read. Restore, download and the
restore preview all answered "could not be decrypted".
- Upload accepted 10 MB, a fraction of a large export.
Every reader and writer of a backup file now streams it:
- `scanBackupJson` reads a backup's bytes once, keeps every section but
the named bulk arrays, and hands their elements out one at a time.
`readStreamedBackup` uses it twice: a first pass that validates each
measurement against the element schema and keeps the rest of the file,
and a second pass that hands the measurements to the writer in batches.
Stored copies and off-host objects are authenticated whole on their
compressed ciphertext before any plaintext is read; only the
decompression is streamed.
- Restore writes the measurements with one `INSERT … FROM unnest` per
batch. Prisma caches a query plan per `createMany` row count, and one
1 000-row plan kept about 145 MB alive, which alone put the restore past
the heap limit. The transaction budget grows with the measurement count.
The awards and ECG sections are handed the ids they reference that were
written, not every written id.
- The export routes write the file into the response as it is produced.
The passphrase export spools its ciphertext to a temporary file because
the HLX1 format puts the tag first; the format is unchanged, so existing
archives open as before.
- Upload accepts the raw body, JSON or gzip, up to the 512 MB request
ceiling, checks it as it arrives and stores it in the same pass; the admin
page compresses the file in the browser before sending it. Multipart stays
for small files.
- Download streams the stored JSON; the preview counts measurements from
the stream. The monthly restore drill and `scripts/restore-backup.ts`
read the off-host object the same way; the script can write `.json.gz`.
On the seeded account in a 1 GB container: export 25 s at 389 MB peak,
passphrase export 25 s, both uploads 19 s, restore of the weekly backup
94 s at 554 MB peak, and export, upload and restore round-trip to exactly
the same rows. The encrypted-column guard now also recognises the raw SQL
statement that writes `DataBackup.data`.
The backup streamed its JSON through gzip and the cipher, but kept the
stored copy as one string and handed that to Postgres in one parameter.
On a seeded account of 1.25 million measurements the copy is 64 MB of
base64, and the pieces, the joined string and the driver's copies of it
grew the process from 309 MB to 946 MB resident. A bare process needed a
heap limit above 400 MB to finish it (the new path finishes under 220 MB).
With the dense retention running beside it in a 1 GB container the
process died of heap exhaustion, and the backup job sat "active" until its
two-hour limit marked it "job timed out" (#1031).
`packBackupBlobInto` hands the stored copy on in pieces of up to 4 MB as
it is produced, and `storeBackupBlob` writes them into a temporary table
on its own transaction and assembles the row with one `string_agg`. The
process never holds the whole copy. The account's previous copy stays in
place until the new one is complete: a failure rolls back to it.
Measured on the seeded account in a 1 GB container, web and worker in one
process: the backup completes in about 30 s with the dense retention
running beside it, where v1.39.0 crashed within 30 s.
The streamed JSON also reports its progress to the job every 50 000 rows.
A portable export left the medication's creation instant out, so a restore
stamped the restore time instead. The creation instant is where a
medication's expected doses start, so the whole restored history then read
as predating the medication: its missed doses dropped out of every
adherence rate. The portable file now carries the creation instant as the
disaster-recovery file already did, and the restore, which already honoured
it, brings it back. A round trip pins both file purposes.
Refs #1028
Status notes (the per-metric text a model writes) move out of audit_logs
into InsightStatusCache: one row per user, metric and locale, the note
encrypted at rest, upserted in place, with the input and snapshot
fingerprints and a separate negative-cache window.
Migration 0344 creates the table and deletes every audit_logs row whose
action matches insights.%-status.%. The notes are a regenerable cache and
the old rows are plaintext, so nothing is copied; the first nightly run
after the upgrade writes them again. Take a backup before applying.
The table is registered for key rotation, excluded from backups as a
regenerable cache, and deleted by Delete All Data.
Refs #975
The operator switches become master, Coach, Daily Briefing, Status
notes and Reading documents. Correlations goes: it gated statistics,
not anything a model writes. Reading documents covers the document
vault, lab scans and medication extraction.
The Coach module's operator availability now follows the Coach
switch, so there is one place to turn the Coach off server-wide. The
migration folds a stored Coach availability of false into the switch,
and gives everyone who hid the Coach the AI analysis opt-out, since
hiding the Coach no longer stops nightly briefing and status notes.
A switch read that fails now fails closed. The insights module is
described as AI analysis in every locale, and the switch guard now
keeps both retired switches out and freezes the callers of the old
operator-only gate.
Nothing recomputes an answer. The module map they produced survives on the
account row, but the map says what is switched on, not that the person told the
flow they take medication daily and have a visit next month — so a restore
without the row opens a blank questionnaire for somebody who already answered
it, and leaves the checklist ordering itself from nothing.
Both ends live in one file, the arrangement the visits and the score already
use, because a reader who greps only the restore route gets a false negative
when the route delegates.
`modulesDerivedAt` is the field that makes this more than history and it is
asserted rather than defaulted: it is the once-only latch on the module
derivation, so a restore that let it default to null would hand the next confirm
permission to re-apply the questionnaire over every module decision taken since,
silently. The round trip seeds it non-null and reads it back.
The file's schema validates the three answer objects loosely and the restore
narrows them through the same fail-soft readers the account payload uses. Being
stricter there would refuse a whole account's restore over one retired chip.
The wipe takes the row for the reason the reset already takes the wizard's own
columns: the record the answers were about is gone, so the answers describe
nothing.
The nightly off-host job reports counts — uploaded, failed, total — and a
count cannot name the account it is failing for. A cohort where one object
has been refused every night for a month reads as "99 uploaded, 1 failed"
each time, which looks like weather rather than like an account with no
disaster-recovery copy at all.
The worker now writes a ledger row when an object lands (account, instant,
size), and Admin → Backups gains a second card that rates every account
against the nightly schedule: fresh inside one run, due when one run
produced nothing, stale when two did not, never when no object has ever
landed. On a host without BACKUP_S3_* the card says off-host backup is not
configured and stops there.
The verdicts are computed from the ledger, never from a bucket listing: the
worker's grant is deliberately PutObject + GetObject, and an admin page must
not put the operator's credentials on its render path to state a number the
database already holds.
A `DataBackup` row that fails to decrypt answered 500 on the restore, the
download and the preview. It is not a server fault: either the key that wrote
the copy is no longer in `ENCRYPTION_KEYS` — a rotation that dropped the legacy
entry before the script reported zero rows, the case the rotation runbook warns
about — or the stored bytes are not the ones that were written. Every other
bad-input arm on those routes already answers 4xx, and the 500 also paged the
error reporter as if the process had broken.
All three now answer 422 with `meta.errorCode = backup.payload.undecryptable`
and one shared sentence, so the three routes cannot drift into three wordings
for one condition. The download's second 500 stays: a payload this instance
wrote and cannot parse really is a fault here.
The two routes that open a stored copy move from the unpublished list into the
contract, because the refusal is now a promise an operator can look up rather
than whatever the handler happened to answer. The restore publishes its
`Idempotency-Key` header with them.
Nothing calls it any more: the weekly pass and the off-host job both
walk the payload through the streaming writer. Keeping an exported
function that builds the entire record as one string invites the next
caller to reintroduce the memory profile this branch removes.
The per-user date order reached the entry form and nothing else. A
reporter switched away from MM/DD/YYYY, the date picker followed, and
the dashboard chart axes and the measurements list kept the old order.
`makeFormatters` took `timeFormat` and `dateFormat` as optional
parameters defaulting to "AUTO", so six of the seven constructions in
the tree silently rendered the locale default and nothing anywhere
said the setting had been dropped. Drop both defaults. The compiler
then names every caller: the chart bucket labels, the legacy
`@/lib/format` helpers the measurements list renders through, the
medication compliance and efficacy charts, the doctor-report PDF and
the clinician share view.
Thread the preference:
- `makeBucketLabelFormatters` takes the order; the health and mood
charts read `useDateFormatPreference()`. The UTC pin decides which
day the label names, the preference decides how it is spelled, and
the two are separate questions.
- `format.ts` reads `readStoredDateFormat()` beside the timezone and
hour-cycle mirrors it already read.
- The PDF takes `dateFormat` as a required render option, alongside
`timeFormat`, which was optional for the same reason.
- The clinician share view spells the OWNER's dates the owner's way.
It also picked up the owner's hour cycle, which it had been ignoring
while the PDF route beside it already honoured it. Both resolve
through the new `resolveUserFormatPreferences`, the counterpart to
`resolveUserTimezone`.
Textual months stay on the UI locale. The preference pins numeric
field order by rendering through de-DE / en-US / en-CA, and a textual
month through those would change the month name's language.
Add `date-order-explicit-formatter-guard`: a raw numeric date renderer
must take its locale from the preference or carry a written reason,
and a formatter construction may not hard-code "AUTO" for the order.
Its allowlist holds thirteen calendar-day key builders, each with the
reason it has no order to get wrong. The sibling timezone guard passes
every one of them, because naming a calendar says nothing about
spelling a date.
Refs #922
The writer added in v1.38.6 compared the process's live heap usage against
80 % of V8's heap limit and aborted above it. That reading is not the
backup's footprint; it is the whole process's, garbage included. A
long-running app sits at 400 MB of largely collectable heap, so on a 1 GB
container (a 419 MB budget) the weekly pass aborted the first flush of every
account: four out of four in seven seconds, the smallest of them a demo
record whose entire stored copy is 1.2 MB, each told its record was too large
and its operator to buy memory.
Drop the gauge. What the writer holds is bounded by its shape and needs no
reading to prove: the three unbounded tables are pulled a page at a time,
every other section is released as soon as its JSON is in the sink, and at
most one flush of text is pending. The one copy that does grow with the
record is the stored blob, so the bound moves there — counted in the
ciphertext bytes actually produced, against a fifth of this process's heap
limit, which is what two copies of the answer plus a live set have to fit
inside. The message names both numbers.
A pass that wrote nothing for anybody now fails its job instead of reporting
`ok: true` with `backed: 0`, so the failing-queue panel and the backups page
read the same thing an operator would. A pass where some accounts were
written keeps passing with the failures as counts.
Measured under --max-old-space-size=450 from a heap deliberately dirtied
first: 445 000 measurements peak at 28 MB held by the backup, a one-row
record at under 1 MB.
The compression that landed last release was real and was measured in the
wrong place. On a development machine with a multi-gigabyte heap the pass
finished; the container the job runs in is capped at 1 GB, which gives V8
a 524 MB limit, and there the same pass died of memory about fifteen
seconds in. Because the job shares the application process, that was not
one failed backup — it was a restart, and every signed-in session on the
host went with it.
Reproduced before touching anything, under `--max-old-space-size=450`
against a seeded account of 445 000 measurements, 30 000 mood entries and
60 000 intake events: `FATAL ERROR: Reached heap limit` at 34 s. The same
fixture doubled to 890 000 measurements now completes inside a 296 MB
limit, holding 16 MB of live heap where the old writer held 168 MB.
The document is written incrementally now. `buildFullBackupPayload` takes
a `deferBulk` mode that declares the three unbounded tables instead of
reading them, and `streamFullBackupJson` walks the payload in key order,
pulls those tables through page by page, and releases every other section
as soon as its JSON reaches the sink. `packBackupBlobStreaming` feeds that
into gzip and an AES-256-GCM stream, so nothing between the database rows
and the stored value ever exists whole. Both writers go through the same
per-row serialisers, and the round-trip suite pins their output byte for
byte rather than trusting that they agree.
The intake and mood reads are ordered totally now. A keyset cursor needs
it, and a partial order also let two exports of one account differ over a
tie, which every multi-dose day has.
The streamed ciphertext is a new shape at rest, because GCM only produces
its tag once the last block is in and a leading tag is what makes the old
layout unstreamable. It carries a marker no older writer can produce, so
the two families are disjoint by construction rather than by sniffing.
All three stored shapes — plain, compressed, streamed — restore, proved
both ways.
The writer also watches its own live heap and stops at 80 % of V8's
limit. An account too large for its host is now one failed backup,
counted in the run's meta, instead of a restart for everybody on it.
The stored column is the ceiling that is left: `data_backups.data` is a
single `text` value, so the finished artifact has to exist as one string,
and that is the only part of the job still growing with the record. The
operator runbook says so, with the number at which it starts to matter.
The export was its only user, and the export now reads through a helper that
marks an undecryptable note instead of blanking it. Nothing else wanted the
silent null: the list DTO never carries the note at all, only `hasNote`, and
the single-resource GET has always used the throwing decrypt so a key gap
surfaces there.
Deleted rather than kept behind a dead-code exemption. A fail-soft twin
sitting unused next to a strict one is the exact shape this branch has been
clearing out — the next person writing an export reaches for whatever is
nearest, and the whole point was that the nearest thing should not silently
swallow a row. It had no test of its own, so none was removed; the three
comments that pointed at it are rewritten to say what is true now.
The weekly pass built the whole account in memory, serialised it whole,
encrypted the string whole, and handed the result to the database whole.
That is four full copies of the record at the same moment — the object
graph, the JSON, the base64 ciphertext at 1.33x the JSON, and the copy the
driver makes of that parameter. Measured against a seeded account of
445 000 readings, the JSON alone is 242 MB and the run dies of heap
exhaustion; under a modest heap it never reaches the insert. The pass was
not slow, it could not finish.
A health record's JSON is extremely repetitive, so gzip takes that 242 MB
to 14 MB and every copy after it shrinks with it. The same run completes
in about twenty seconds with a peak heap of 434 MB and a stored row of
25 MB instead of 322 MB — which also matters because the copy lives inside
the database it would be needed to restore. Both backup jobs now hand the
serialised form back from a frame of its own, so the payload graph is
released before the compress step allocates anything.
The marker sits inside the ciphertext, so the stored column keeps the one
shape `decrypt()` already understands and rows written before this still
restore. The off-host object gets the same treatment through the version
byte its envelope always carried; version 1 objects still read back, which
both the restore drill and the restore script depend on.
The obvious saving — dropping soft-deleted readings, four rows in five on
a real record — is not taken, and the round-trip test now seeds a
tombstone and asserts it makes the journey. A tombstone inside the
retention window is what tells a synced client the row is gone and what
makes a re-sent sample a no-op; a restore without them brings back every
measurement the account ever deleted on the next device sync.
Marc-André Bombeck