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Address review of 9ac3342:

- The media backup now runs as the host user mealquest (10001) with no
  capabilities. systemd bind-mounts the data volume read-only at
  /run/mealquest-data and passes the NAS key as a credential; the script
  changes into media, refuses it if the physical path differs (symlink)
  and rsyncs "./", so the path cannot be swapped under it. ssh pins the
  NAS host keys from /etc/mealquest/known_hosts (deploy/known_hosts).
- A missing media directory now fails the job. The deploy step creates it.
- deploy/RUNBOOK.md records the Traefik route (task 0c1dc172), backup
  setup, the restore procedure (stop, move db/-wal/-shm aside, restore,
  count check, start) and the 2026-10-05 drill with ltx -level all.

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# MealQuest deployment runbook
How MealQuest is deployed on office-srvr (10.60.1.14) and how its data is
backed up and restored. Sections marked *task 876134bc* are completed by
that task (Feature 07 deployment runbook); this file currently records the
reverse-proxy route, the backups and the restore procedure.
Paths used below:
| Name | Path |
| --- | --- |
| Checkout on the host | `/home/overseer/mealquest` |
| Data volume (`mealquest-data`) on the host | `/var/lib/docker/volumes/mealquest-data/_data` |
| Same volume inside the containers | `/data` |
| Database | `mealquest.db` (+ `mealquest.db-wal`, `mealquest.db-shm` while open) |
| Media | `media/` in the data volume |
| Backup target (NAS, over SSH) | `joshua@10.60.1.50:/volume1/homes/Joshua/mealquest-backups` |
| Same target over SFTP (Synology chroot) | `/homes/Joshua/mealquest-backups` |
## Stack and first deploy
*Completed by task 876134bc.* The compose stack is `deploy/compose.yaml`;
start it with `docker compose -f deploy/compose.yaml up -d --build`.
## Reverse proxy (Traefik)
MealQuest is published at <https://mealquest.cubecraftlabs.com> by the
shared Traefik instance on 10.60.1.33 (Feature 07, task 0c1dc172). The
route is a dynamic-configuration file that lives on the Traefik host only,
at `/home/overseer/Code/traefik/config/dynamic/mealquest-ccl.yml`. Its exact
contents:
```yaml
# MealQuest - https://mealquest.cubecraftlabs.com
# Feature 07 task 0c1dc172. Single Go binary (API + embedded PWA) on
# office-srvr 10.60.1.14:8090. HTTP -> HTTPS is handled globally by
# http-conf.yml, so only a websecure router is defined here.
# This file lives on the Traefik host only; the repo copy is recorded in
# deploy/RUNBOOK.md by task 876134bc.
http:
routers:
mealquest:
entryPoints:
- websecure
rule: "Host(`mealquest.cubecraftlabs.com`)"
priority: 100
middlewares:
- mealquest-headers
service: mealquest
tls:
certResolver: myresolver
domains:
- main: mealquest.cubecraftlabs.com
services:
mealquest:
loadBalancer:
servers:
- url: "http://10.60.1.14:8090"
middlewares:
mealquest-headers:
headers:
stsSeconds: 31536000
stsIncludeSubdomains: true
contentTypeNosniff: true
frameDeny: true
```
## Backups
### Database — Litestream
The `litestream` compose service streams every committed change to
`mealquest.db` to the NAS over SFTP (`deploy/litestream.yml`). It takes a
full snapshot daily (compaction level 9) and keeps a week of snapshots
plus the incremental LTX files between them.
One-time setup (already done on 10.60.1.14):
1. Generate the dedicated keypair, git-ignored, owned by the container
user:
```sh
cd /home/overseer/mealquest
ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -N '' -C mealquest-litestream -f deploy/secrets/litestream_key
# append deploy/secrets/litestream_key.pub to joshua@10.60.1.50:~/.ssh/authorized_keys
rm deploy/secrets/litestream_key.pub
sudo chown 10001:10001 deploy/secrets/litestream_key
sudo chmod 0600 deploy/secrets/litestream_key
```
2. The NAS host key is pinned in `deploy/litestream.yml` (`host-key`).
Check replication — list every LTX file at every level. Level 9 holds the
full snapshots; the default listing (`-level 0`) shows only L0 files:
```sh
docker compose -f deploy/compose.yaml exec -T litestream \
litestream ltx -config /etc/litestream.yml -level all /data/mealquest.db
```
### Media — nightly rsync
`mealquest-media-backup.timer` runs `mealquest-media-backup.service` at
03:30 every night. The service runs `/usr/local/sbin/mealquest-media-backup`
(`deploy/systemd/mealquest-media-backup.sh`) as the unprivileged host user
`mealquest` (uid/gid 10001, the app's own user) with no capabilities.
systemd bind-mounts the data volume read-only at `/run/mealquest-data` and
passes the Litestream key in as the credential `nas_key`; uid 10001 cannot
otherwise reach `/var/lib/docker` or `deploy/secrets/`. The script refuses a
`media` path that is a symlink and fails (exit 1) if `media` is missing.
One-time setup (already done on 10.60.1.14):
```sh
cd /home/overseer/mealquest
# Host user for the backup; ssh needs a passwd entry for its uid.
sudo groupadd --system --gid 10001 mealquest
sudo useradd --system --uid 10001 --gid 10001 --no-create-home \
--home-dir /nonexistent --shell /usr/sbin/nologin mealquest
# Pinned NAS host keys, root-owned and world-readable.
sudo install -d -o root -g root -m 0755 /etc/mealquest
sudo install -o root -g root -m 0644 deploy/known_hosts /etc/mealquest/known_hosts
# The media directory; the backup fails if it is ever missing.
sudo install -d -o 10001 -g 10001 -m 0755 /var/lib/docker/volumes/mealquest-data/_data/media
# Script and units.
sudo install -o root -g root -m 0755 deploy/systemd/mealquest-media-backup.sh /usr/local/sbin/mealquest-media-backup
sudo install -o root -g root -m 0644 deploy/systemd/mealquest-media-backup.service \
deploy/systemd/mealquest-media-backup.timer /etc/systemd/system/
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable --now mealquest-media-backup.timer
```
Run it by hand and read the result:
```sh
sudo systemctl start mealquest-media-backup.service
journalctl -u mealquest-media-backup --no-pager -n 30
```
Restore media by reversing the copy into the (empty or stale) media
directory as uid 10001:
```sh
sudo rsync -a --chown=10001:10001 \
-e "ssh -i deploy/secrets/litestream_key -o IdentitiesOnly=yes -o UserKnownHostsFile=/etc/mealquest/known_hosts -o StrictHostKeyChecking=yes" \
joshua@10.60.1.50:/volume1/homes/Joshua/mealquest-backups/media/ \
/var/lib/docker/volumes/mealquest-data/_data/media/
```
## Restore the database
SQLite in WAL mode keeps recent commits in `mealquest.db-wal`, indexed by
`mealquest.db-shm`. **A restored database must never sit beside an old WAL
or shared-memory file**: on open, SQLite would replay the old WAL's pages
onto the restored database and corrupt it or mix in state from the
database it replaced. So all three files are moved aside together, with
Litestream's local state directory `.mealquest.db-litestream`, before the
restore — and the restore runs into an empty volume.
Run from `/home/overseer/mealquest`:
```sh
D=/var/lib/docker/volumes/mealquest-data/_data
A=/var/tmp/mealquest-restore-aside-$(date +%Y%m%d%H%M)
# 1. Stop the whole stack (app and Litestream). Nothing may hold the
# database open; a clean close checkpoints the WAL into mealquest.db.
docker compose -f deploy/compose.yaml down
# 2. Move the database, its -wal and -shm files and Litestream's state
# aside — all of them, every time. Keep the directory until the
# restored stack is verified.
sudo mkdir "$A"
for f in mealquest.db mealquest.db-wal mealquest.db-shm .mealquest.db-litestream; do
if sudo test -e "$D/$f"; then sudo mv "$D/$f" "$A/"; fi
done
sudo ls -la "$D" # must list only media/
# 3. Restore from the NAS. --no-deps keeps the app stopped so it cannot
# create a fresh, empty database first.
docker compose -f deploy/compose.yaml run --rm --no-deps litestream \
restore -config /etc/litestream.yml -o /data/mealquest.db /data/mealquest.db
sudo ls -la "$D" # mealquest.db only: no -wal, no -shm
# 4. Check the restored file before starting the app (see "Count check").
# 5. Start the stack and check health.
docker compose -f deploy/compose.yaml up -d
docker compose -f deploy/compose.yaml ps
curl -s -o /dev/null -w "health %{http_code}\n" http://10.60.1.14:8090/health
```
To restore to a point in time, add `-timestamp 2026-10-05T23:00:00Z` (or
`-txid`) to the `restore` command.
### Count check
`/tmp/mqcount.py` prints row counts for key tables, the number of
application tables, a SHA-256 over every application row (first 16 hex
digits; Litestream's own `_litestream*` tables are excluded) and
`PRAGMA integrity_check`. Run it on a **copy** of the database, never on the
live file; copy `-wal`/`-shm` along with it when the app is running.
```python
import sqlite3, sys, hashlib
c = sqlite3.connect(sys.argv[1])
tabs = [r[0] for r in c.execute("select name from sqlite_master where type=\"table\" and name not like \"sqlite_%\" and name not like \"_litestream%\" order by name")]
for t in ("dinners", "week_plans", "schema_migrations"):
print(t, c.execute(f"select count(*) from {t}").fetchone()[0])
h = hashlib.sha256()
for t in tabs:
for row in c.execute(f"select * from \"{t}\" order by rowid"):
h.update(repr(row).encode())
print("tables", len(tabs), "content-sha256", h.hexdigest()[:16])
print("integrity", c.execute("pragma integrity_check").fetchone()[0])
```
```sh
rm -rf /tmp/mqcheck && mkdir /tmp/mqcheck
sudo sh -c "cp -a $D/mealquest.db* /tmp/mqcheck/" && sudo chown -R "$USER" /tmp/mqcheck
python3 /tmp/mqcount.py /tmp/mqcheck/mealquest.db
```
Before and after must match exactly.
## Restore drill record — 2026-10-05
Drill on 10.60.1.14 against the live (pre-launch, empty-household)
database, Litestream 0.5.17. Commands as in "Restore the database";
output trimmed only of compose progress lines.
Replica before the drill (`ltx -level all`; level 9 is the full snapshot):
```
level min_txid max_txid size created
0 0000000000000003 0000000000000003 14110 2026-10-05T23:13:30Z
1 0000000000000001 0000000000000002 14110 2026-10-05T23:12:38Z
1 0000000000000003 0000000000000003 14110 2026-10-05T23:13:30Z
2 0000000000000001 0000000000000002 14110 2026-10-05T23:12:38Z
2 0000000000000003 0000000000000003 14110 2026-10-05T23:13:30Z
3 0000000000000001 0000000000000002 14110 2026-10-05T23:12:38Z
9 0000000000000001 0000000000000002 14110 2026-10-05T23:12:38Z
```
1. `docker compose -f deploy/compose.yaml down` — both containers stopped
and removed. The volume then held `mealquest.db`,
`.mealquest.db-litestream/` and `media/`; the clean close had
checkpointed and removed `-wal` and `-shm`.
2. Before (copy of the stopped database):
```
dinners 0
week_plans 0
schema_migrations 7
tables 26 content-sha256 836e230e16c58dc7
integrity ok
```
3. Moved aside to `/var/tmp/mealquest-restore-aside-20261005`:
`mealquest.db` and `.mealquest.db-litestream` (no `-wal`/`-shm` existed
after the clean stop; the loop moves them whenever they do). Volume
afterwards: `media/` only.
4. `docker compose -f deploy/compose.yaml run --rm --no-deps litestream restore -config /etc/litestream.yml -o /data/mealquest.db /data/mealquest.db`
— volume afterwards: `mealquest.db` (258048 bytes) and `media/`; no
`-wal`, no `-shm`.
5. After (copy of the restored file, before the app started):
```
dinners 0
week_plans 0
schema_migrations 7
tables 26 content-sha256 836e230e16c58dc7
integrity ok
```
6. `docker compose -f deploy/compose.yaml up -d` — `mealquest-mealquest-1`
healthy, `mealquest-litestream-1` up; `GET /health` → `200`. Counts on a
copy of the running database (`mealquest.db`, `-wal`, `-shm`) were
identical to the above.
7. Litestream resumed against the restored database:
```
level=INFO msg="detected database behind replica" db=mealquest.db db_txid=0000000000000000 replica_txid=0000000000000003
level=INFO msg="fetched latest L0 file from replica" db=mealquest.db min_txid=0000000000000003 max_txid=0000000000000003
level=INFO msg="compaction complete" db=mealquest.db level=1 txid.min=0000000000000004 txid.max=0000000000000004 size=14110
```
Replica after the drill (`ltx -level all`):
```
level min_txid max_txid size created
0 0000000000000004 0000000000000004 14110 2026-10-05T23:27:21Z
1 0000000000000001 0000000000000002 14110 2026-10-05T23:12:38Z
1 0000000000000003 0000000000000003 14110 2026-10-05T23:13:30Z
1 0000000000000004 0000000000000004 14110 2026-10-05T23:27:21Z
2 0000000000000001 0000000000000002 14110 2026-10-05T23:12:38Z
2 0000000000000003 0000000000000003 14110 2026-10-05T23:13:30Z
3 0000000000000001 0000000000000002 14110 2026-10-05T23:12:38Z
9 0000000000000001 0000000000000002 14110 2026-10-05T23:12:38Z
```
The first drill earlier the same day (before `-level all` was recorded)
gave the same before/after result: checksum `836e230e16c58dc7`, 26 tables,
integrity ok.
### Media backup checks — 2026-10-05
`sudo systemctl start mealquest-media-backup.service` on 10.60.1.14:
| Case | Result |
| --- | --- |
| Normal run | `Result=success`; journal: `synced /run/mealquest-data/media to joshua@10.60.1.50:/volume1/homes/Joshua/mealquest-backups/media/ as uid 10001` |
| A test file added | `Number of regular files transferred: 1`; removing it then gave `Number of deleted files: 1 (reg: 1)` |
| `media` replaced by a symlink to `/etc` | `Result=exit-code`, status 1; `/run/mealquest-data/media is a symlink to /etc; refusing to back it up` |
| `media` removed | `Result=exit-code`, status 1; `media directory /run/mealquest-data/media is missing` |
| `sudo -u mealquest` writing into the volume via `/var/lib/docker/...` | `Permission denied` — uid 10001 cannot traverse `/var/lib/docker` (mode 0710 root) |
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# the app's own user (owner of the volume) with a read-only root
# filesystem, no privilege escalation and no Linux capabilities.
#
# Restore (app stopped; --no-deps so the app does not start and create a
# fresh database first):
# docker compose -f deploy/compose.yaml run --rm --no-deps litestream \
# restore -config /etc/litestream.yml -o /data/mealquest.db /data/mealquest.db
# Restore: follow "Restore the database" in deploy/RUNBOOK.md (stop the
# stack, move the database with its -wal and -shm aside, restore, check).
litestream:
image: litestream/litestream:0.5.17
user: "10001:10001"
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# Host keys of the Synology NAS (10.60.1.50), the backup target. Installed
# root-owned with mode 0644 as /etc/mealquest/known_hosts and pinned by the
# media backup (UserKnownHostsFile, StrictHostKeyChecking=yes). The ECDSA
# key is also pinned in deploy/litestream.yml (host-key).
10.60.1.50 ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIKHxIfgjavBABMRE5GW/EFY4C4gO6mo0sKbhkUW2NcAo
10.60.1.50 ecdsa-sha2-nistp256 AAAAE2VjZHNhLXNoYTItbmlzdHAyNTYAAAAIbmlzdHAyNTYAAABBBNujay9nYEiXuRQf4wDRDU1gp+CDvpeMdhuhC2XypIihzKGEtB654kwrUGfA2kDWAoSPGlmojeS3OIRtHPkj6GY=
@@ -3,6 +3,11 @@
# systemctl start mealquest-media-backup
# and read the result with
# journalctl -u mealquest-media-backup
#
# The script runs as the app's user (10001, host user "mealquest") with no
# capabilities. systemd, as root, only bind-mounts the data volume's root
# (a root-owned path the app cannot replace) read-only at
# /run/mealquest-data and copies the NAS key into the credentials directory.
[Unit]
Description=Back up MealQuest media to the Synology NAS
After=network-online.target
@@ -11,3 +16,14 @@ Wants=network-online.target
[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/usr/local/sbin/mealquest-media-backup
User=mealquest
Group=mealquest
LoadCredential=nas_key:/home/overseer/mealquest/deploy/secrets/litestream_key
BindReadOnlyPaths=/var/lib/docker/volumes/mealquest-data/_data:/run/mealquest-data
ProtectSystem=strict
ProtectHome=yes
PrivateTmp=yes
PrivateDevices=yes
NoNewPrivileges=yes
CapabilityBoundingSet=
RestrictAddressFamilies=AF_INET AF_INET6 AF_UNIX
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# to the Synology NAS. The database itself is replicated continuously by
# Litestream; this covers the files beside it.
#
# rsync mirrors the media directory onto .../mealquest-backups/media/ only:
# both paths end in a slash, so --delete removes files from that target
# directory and nothing outside it. A missing source directory (no media
# uploaded yet) is reported and skipped, never synced, so an empty source
# can never wipe the remote copy. Re-runs transfer only what changed.
# Runs as the unprivileged app user (10001, host user "mealquest"), never
# root: mealquest-media-backup.service bind-mounts the data volume
# read-only at /run/mealquest-data and hands the NAS key in as a systemd
# credential. Anything the app could plant in the volume is therefore read
# with the app's own permissions only.
#
# The volume is writable by the app container, so a media path that is a
# symlink is refused: root's rsync would otherwise follow it and copy
# whatever it points at. Symlinks inside the directory are copied as links
# (-a), never followed.
# The script changes into the media directory and checks that the physical
# path is the expected one, so a media path that is a symlink is refused.
# rsync then copies "./" — the directory the shell is already in — so
# swapping the path afterwards cannot redirect it. Symlinks inside the
# directory are copied as links (-a), never followed.
#
# Connects with the dedicated MealQuest key; the NAS host key must already
# be in root's known_hosts (StrictHostKeyChecking=yes fails otherwise).
# Installed as /usr/local/sbin/mealquest-media-backup; output goes to the
# The media directory is created at deploy time (deploy/RUNBOOK.md). If it
# is missing the job fails; it is never treated as "nothing to back up".
#
# rsync mirrors into .../mealquest-backups/media/ only: the target ends in
# a slash, so --delete removes files from that directory and nothing
# outside it. Re-runs transfer only what changed. Output goes to the
# journal via mealquest-media-backup.service.
set -eu
src=/var/lib/docker/volumes/mealquest-data/_data/media/
src=/run/mealquest-data/media
dest=joshua@10.60.1.50:/volume1/homes/Joshua/mealquest-backups/media/
key=/home/overseer/mealquest/deploy/secrets/litestream_key
key=$CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY/nas_key
known_hosts=/etc/mealquest/known_hosts
if [ -L "${src%/}" ]; then
echo "mealquest-media-backup: ${src%/} is a symlink; refusing to back it up" >&2
if ! cd "$src"; then
echo "mealquest-media-backup: media directory $src is missing" >&2
exit 1
fi
if [ "$(pwd -P)" != "$src" ]; then
echo "mealquest-media-backup: $src is a symlink to $(pwd -P); refusing to back it up" >&2
exit 1
fi
if [ ! -d "$src" ]; then
echo "mealquest-media-backup: no media directory at $src yet; nothing to back up"
exit 0
fi
rsync -a --delete --stats \
-e "ssh -i $key -o IdentitiesOnly=yes -o BatchMode=yes -o StrictHostKeyChecking=yes" \
"$src" "$dest"
echo "mealquest-media-backup: synced $src to $dest"
-e "ssh -F none -i $key -o IdentitiesOnly=yes -o BatchMode=yes -o UserKnownHostsFile=$known_hosts -o GlobalKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o StrictHostKeyChecking=yes" \
./ "$dest"
echo "mealquest-media-backup: synced $src to $dest as uid $(id -u)"