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What this changes

Adds AES-256-GCM envelope encryption with pluggable secret-source resolution for backup capture and guarded restore, an automated backup retention and pruning engine (bun run backup:prune) with age, count, GFS slots, disk quota, and newest-good backup safety guarantees, plus platform-neutral scheduling configurations for Docker Compose, systemd, and Kubernetes.

Why

Fulfills slice 3 of #394 (REL-001, DB-001, DOC-001). Backups contain sensitive application data and object uploads that must be encrypted before leaving the host without exposing credentials in logs or process arguments. Operators also need automated, predictable retention that cleans incomplete captures and enforces storage quotas without accidentally deleting the newest recoverable backup or pinned archives.

Part of #394

How you know it works

  • Added unit and integration tests in packages/services/tests/backup/encryption.test.ts verifying master key resolution (env, file, and KMS command), envelope key wrapping, buffer encryption, streaming file encryption/decryption, 0-byte file handling, and tampering rejection.
  • Added tests in packages/services/tests/backup/prune.test.ts and scripts/backup-prune.test.ts verifying count/age retention, disk quota trimming, legal-hold pinning preservation, guaranteed protection of the newest good backup, stale backup alerts, and CLI dry-run execution.
  • Added encrypted backup creation and guarded restore roundtrip tests in packages/services/tests/backup/create.test.ts and packages/services/tests/backup/restore.test.ts.
  • Verified pre-mutation checksum verification, on-the-fly S3 object decryption, and post-restore application-aware validation.
  • All checks green: bun run verify (lint, check-comments, check-bytes, check-bun-imports, check-deps, typecheck, and unit/integration tests).

Checklist

  • bun run verify is green, all four checks
  • Tests added or updated, and they fail without the change
  • No comments added to code, and no em-dash characters anywhere
  • No any, no non-null assertions
  • External input is parsed with a Zod schema from @orbit/shared
  • Authorization is enforced on the server through packages/shared/src/policy, not only in the UI
  • Docs updated if behaviour, configuration or setup changed
  • bun run db:release and bun run db:check-drift passed against the target database before this ships

Anything reviewers should know

  • In accordance with security guidelines, direct master keys are not accepted as CLI arguments (--encryption-key) to avoid leaking secrets into process tables (ps aux) or shell history; secret ingestion uses --encryption-key-file, --encryption-command, or environment variables.
  • System/hidden directories (like lost+found on mounted Linux filesystems) are explicitly ignored by the pruning scanner to prevent accidental data deletion on dedicated mountpoints.
  • This is PR 3 of 4 for Operations: prove backup, restore, upgrade, and disaster recovery for self-hosted Orbit #394 and does not close the issue; PR 4 will introduce the CI continuous disaster recovery drill, upgrade matrix, and operator runbooks.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Backup creation and restore now support AES-256-GCM encryption for database dumps and storage objects. The change adds backup pruning with configurable retention, quota, and incomplete-directory cleanup. Shell scripts and systemd units schedule backup and pruning operations.

Changes

Backup encryption and lifecycle management

Layer / File(s) Summary
Encryption format and payload contract
packages/services/src/backup/encryption.ts, packages/services/src/backup/types.ts, packages/shared/src/validators/backup.ts, packages/services/tests/backup/encryption.test.ts, packages/shared/tests/validators/backup.test.ts
Adds AES-256-GCM key resolution, envelope handling, and file and buffer encryption. Backup types and validators support envelope fields and plaintext integrity metadata.
Encrypted backup creation
packages/services/src/backup/create.ts, scripts/backup/create.ts, packages/services/tests/backup/create.test.ts
Backup creation can encrypt database dumps and captured objects and record encryption metadata. The CLI accepts encryption options and reports encryption details.
Encrypted backup restore
packages/services/src/backup/restore.ts, packages/services/src/backup/restore-storage.ts, scripts/backup/restore.ts, packages/services/tests/backup/restore*.test.ts
Restore decrypts database dumps and storage objects and validates plaintext metadata when supplied. The CLI accepts key-file and helper-command options.
Retention pruning and CLI
packages/services/src/backup/prune.ts, scripts/backup/prune.ts, package.json, packages/shared/src/validators/backup.ts, packages/services/tests/backup/prune.test.ts, scripts/backup-prune.test.ts
Adds backup discovery, retention and quota pruning, incomplete-directory cleanup, dry-run reporting, and stale status. The CLI supports JSON and human-readable output.
Backup scheduling and operator guidance
deploy/backup/*, .env.example, docs/configuration.md, docs/self-hosting.md
Adds shell and systemd scheduling for backup and pruning. Configuration examples and documentation cover encryption, restore, retention, and scheduling.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant restoreBackup
  participant encryptionUtilities
  participant runDatabaseAndMigrations
  participant restoreStorageObjects
  restoreBackup->>encryptionUtilities: Resolve master key and decrypt envelope DEK
  restoreBackup->>encryptionUtilities: Decrypt database dump
  restoreBackup->>runDatabaseAndMigrations: Restore from decrypted dump
  restoreBackup->>restoreStorageObjects: Pass DEK-based decrypt callback
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to c80ea

Use same-length object corruption to protect the checksum check. Backup capture also holds an attachment in memory before encrypting it; confirm available memory for the supported attachment size before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to c80ea

Encryption and existing restore guards provide useful protection, and the inspected entrypoints remain operator-facing. However, automated pruning can mistake an unrestorable encrypted archive for the newest good backup, deletion is not coordinated with concurrent preservation updates, and monitoring reports no stale condition when no usable backups remain. These gaps weaken recovery guarantees.

Retained concerns

  • High · reliability · inferred: Pruning equates schema-valid, checksum-valid payloads with a recoverable backup. The schema accepts encryption.enabled=true without envelope parameters, but restore rejects that state. A newer archive with such metadata can become newestGoodBackupId and, under count or quota pruning, displace the last restorable archive. Normal capture writes complete envelope parameters, so this concerns malformed or altered metadata accepted by the new retention lifecycle, not ordinary producer output.
  • Medium · reliability · inferred: Preservation and deletion use separate observations without a shared lifecycle guard. Pin markers are checked during discovery but not before recursive deletion, so a legal hold added after discovery can be ignored. Incomplete cleanup similarly treats an old lock as expired without checking whether its creator is still active; a sufficiently old live capture can become eligible. Atomic publication and fresh-lock protection cover normal capture, but not these concurrent ownership changes. This weakens preservation and incident-recovery guarantees without establishing a remote attack path.
  • Medium · reliability · observed: When no backup passes discovery, pruning returns isStale=false even with stale monitoring configured. With no deletion failures, the CLI emits successful status and does not set the stale-alert exit code. Human output does show “Newest backup: none,” but scheduled exit-status monitoring receives no alert when the recovery set is empty, including when every archive is corrupt.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The demonstrated destructive scope is the configured backup root. Recovery failures affect archives for the configured database and referenced object uploads, potentially across multiple workspaces. Restore continues to target the explicitly confirmed database and bucket; the inspected caller evidence did not establish a new network-facing entrypoint.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — A principal able to alter backup metadata, or malformed externally supplied metadata, can influence the new newest-good selection without satisfying restore's envelope contract. Automatic pruning can then remove older recovery material. Backup-write access is a necessary demonstrated precondition; no unprivileged remote path to that access was established.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Operator configuration can select a key file or helper executable, creating file-read and process-execution authority under the backup runner's identity. The helper is not invoked through a shell, and its failure message does not include captured output. Both systemd services consume /etc/orbit/orbit.env; repository evidence does not establish that file's effective ownership or permissions.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — Checksum rejection protects against ordinary corrupt payloads, but recovery resilience also requires agreement with restore eligibility, coordinated preservation state, and an alert when no valid recovery set exists. The new lifecycle does not fully enforce those conditions.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Use a shared structural restore-eligibility predicate before allowing an archive to protect the retention floor. Coordinate capture, preservation updates, and deletion through a shared ownership mechanism, and distinguish an empty valid recovery set from healthy monitoring status. These are proposed controls, not existing guarantees.
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Review comments at @packages/services/src/backup/create.ts:
- Around line 105-118: Update createBackup to resolve the master key before
verifyPreflight and dumpDatabase, then pass it to processPayloadEncryption to
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- Around line 380-386: Update the backup deletion flow that uses rm so failures
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- Around line 175-196: Update the `.tmp` pruning loop so `maxAgeHours` uses a
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🟠 Major · Do not treat maxTotalBytes as a retention rule. · prune.ts:278-330

packages/services/src/backup/prune.ts:278-330
🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Do not treat maxTotalBytes as a retention rule.

When the operator sets only maxTotalBytes and the discovered backups fit within the quota, determineRetainedIds keeps only the newest and pinned backups. applyQuotaLimit then returns without changing that set, and executePruning deletes every other discovered backup. This can remove valid backups even though the storage quota is not exceeded.

Remove maxTotalBytes from hasSpecificRule. The later quota check will still prune backups when the total exceeds the limit.

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     options.keepWeekly !== undefined ||
-    options.keepMonthly !== undefined ||
-    options.maxTotalBytes !== undefined;
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Update hasSpecificRule in determineRetainedIds to exclude maxTotalBytes. When
quota is the only option and no quota pruning is needed, retain all discovered
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The crypto core is solid, nice work.

  • AES-256-GCM with a random 96-bit IV per file and per object, a random data key per backup, and a strict key parser.
  • No key material in logs or the manifest.
  • Tampered, truncated and wrong-key files all fail with "authentication tag mismatch", and the decrypted temp file is removed before pg_restore ever runs.
  • A wrong master key fails at the key unwrap, before the restore lock is taken or anything changes.
  • Unencrypted backups still restore on the old path.

I ran the 88 backup tests, the validators and the 177 script tests. Typecheck, biome and the repo checks are clean.

Two things block it:

  1. --pinned doesn't pin, so the backups you name get deleted. isPinnedBackup compares against manifest.metadata.backupId and sourceRevision, but createBackup never writes metadata.backupId. The id backup:create prints is the directory name, and nothing compares it. With two backups and pruneBackups({ keepCount: 1, pinnedBackupIds: ['orbit-backup-2026-08-01T10-00-00-000Z-aaaaaaaa'] }), pinnedBackups comes back empty and that exact directory is deleted. The sourceRevision fallback goes wrong the other way: it defaults to 'unknown', so pinning 'unknown' pins every backup. Please match on the directory id and drop the revision fallback, and add an engine-level test that pins one backup and asserts it survives.
  2. Two of the three scheduler templates can't run as shipped.
    • The Compose and Kubernetes files use ghcr.io/noveum/orbit-tools:latest, which we don't publish (container-images.yml publishes only runtime, gateway and bucket). Even built locally, Dockerfile.tools has no pg_dump.
    • The documented docker compose -f deploy/backup/compose.backup.yaml run --rm backup-runner runs as its own project on its own network, so it can't resolve postgres or storage from the preview stack. Its defaults (postgres:postgres, orbit-access-key) don't match deploy/docker/compose.yaml either.
    • CLAUDE.md says nothing runs in Kubernetes, so please drop the CronJob rather than fix it.
    • For Compose, either add the service to deploy/docker/compose.yaml using its network and secrets, or document the systemd path only.

Should fix:

  1. Restoring encrypted attachments isn't tested. If I force decrypt to undefined in restore.ts, restore uploads the ciphertext as the attachment and all 92 backup tests still pass. The encrypted round-trip tests use a storage mock with no objects, so the new plaintext size and checksum checks never run. The wrong-key and missing-key cases use a bare .rejects.toThrow(); assert the message and that the database was left alone.
  2. The quota protections the docs promise aren't tested. Removing b.id !== newestGoodBackupId or !b.isPinned from the quota filter still passes every test, yet self-hosting.md says the newest backup survives --max-bytes and pinned ones are immune.
  3. Prune can delete a backup that's still being written. A .tmp directory is protected only by its mtime against incompleteMaxAgeHours. With that set to 0, prune deleted a fresh .tmp that contained database.dump. The mtime also doesn't change while pg_dump streams into an existing file. Since backup and prune run on separate timers, please never delete a .tmp that's in use: hold a lock file the backup takes, or skip .tmp regardless of age unless it's very old.
  4. "Newest good backup" only means the manifest parses. A newest backup with a missing or corrupt dump is protected, while keepCount deletes intact older ones. Check the dump exists and its size matches before treating a backup as good.
  5. Docs.
    • The removed "Backup limitations" caveats still apply: encryption needs extra scratch space while the dump and .enc coexist, and restore decrypts the whole dump into the temp directory.
    • The key rotation note says old backups stay restorable because the manifest records keyId, but restore never reads it; the operator has to supply the old key.
    • The new prune variables and --pinned aren't in docs/configuration.md or .env.example.

Nits: the encrypted header has no format version byte, and GCM runs without additional authenticated data, so keyId and the header aren't bound to the ciphertext. Everything still fails closed, so that's hardening for later. Also, parsePruneArgs runs outside the try, so a bad flag with --json prints a raw stack trace instead of JSON.

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185-189: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

An mtime check does not protect an in-progress .tmp capture.

If incompleteMaxAgeHours is 0, prune deletes a .tmp directory that a running backup is still writing. A directory mtime also stays old while files inside the directory change. A long capture can therefore be deleted even with the 24-hour default. Use a lock or PID marker that the running capture holds, and skip .tmp directories that have a live lock.

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Review comment at @packages/services/src/backup/prune.ts around lines 185 - 189:
Update the pruning logic around ageHours and thresholdHours to skip .tmp
directories when they have a live lock or PID marker held by an in-progress
backup; ensure the capture lifecycle maintains that marker so age-based pruning
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- Around line 92-97: Update the pinned-backup check in the pruning logic to
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no operand instead of silently ignoring it; ensure parsePruneArgs receives these
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Review comments at @packages/services/src/backup/prune.ts:
- Around line 185-189: Update the pruning logic around ageHours and
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🟠 Major · Stream encryption for captured objects. · create.ts:62-64

packages/services/src/backup/create.ts:62-64
🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Stream encryption for captured objects.

Uploads are capped at 100 MiB, but captureStorageObjects has no size check. During encryption, readFile and encryptBuffer allocate multiple full-object buffers. A large accepted object can exceed the memory available to a constrained backup process. Use the existing streaming encryptFile helper and a temporary output file.

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 import {
   createEnvelopeDataKey,
-  encryptBuffer,
   encryptFile,
   resolveMasterEncryptionKey,
 } from './encryption.ts';

   for (const obj of objects) {
     const objectPath = join(workingDir, 'objects', obj.key);
-    const rawData = await readFile(objectPath);
-    const encryptedData = encryptBuffer(rawData, dek);
-    await writeFile(objectPath, encryptedData, { mode: 0o600 });
-    const encryptedSha256 = createHash('sha256').update(encryptedData).digest('hex');
+    const encryptedPath = `${objectPath}.${randomUUID()}.tmp`;
+    const encryptedData = await encryptFile(objectPath, encryptedPath, dek);
+    try {
+      await rename(encryptedPath, objectPath);
+    } finally {
+      await rm(encryptedPath, { force: true });
+    }

     encryptedObjects.push({
       key: obj.key,
-      sha256: encryptedSha256,
-      bytes: encryptedData.byteLength,
+      sha256: encryptedData.sha256,
+      bytes: encryptedData.bytes,
       contentType: obj.contentType,
       plaintextSha256: obj.sha256,
       plaintextBytes: obj.bytes,
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Replace the full-buffer readFile/encryptBuffer path in captureStorageObjects
with the existing streaming encryptFile helper, writing to a temporary output
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- Line 239: In the backup validation flow around `dumpStat`, verify the dump’s
SHA-256 against `checksums.databaseDump.sha256` before including it in retention
decisions or selecting `newestGoodBackupId`. Update the test fixture to store
the actual dump digest, and add a same-length corruption case that confirms the
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- Line 187: Update pruneBackups to accept only names matching the
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check; do not treat arbitrary .tmp or .incomplete directories as eligible for
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- Around line 62-64: Replace the full-buffer readFile/encryptBuffer path in
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- Line 250: Normalize both `actualSha256` and `dumpMeta.sha256` to the same case
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Re-checked every item from the 3 October review against c80eaf3, and all seven are fixed with code and tests: pinning matches the directory name, the Compose and Kubernetes templates are gone, the encrypted attachment restore is exercised end to end including wrong-key and missing-key refusals with the row left untouched, both quota guarantees are tested, .backup.lock protects an in-flight capture, "newest good" now means every artifact verified by digest, and the docs carry the scratch-space, decrypt-to-temp and key-rotation caveats.

Key custody is right: random DEK per backup wrapped under the KEK with AES-256-GCM, the manifest stores only the wrapped DEK, IV, tag and key id, there is deliberately no --encryption-key flag, the helper command is spawned without a shell, and nothing logs key material. Retention never deletes the newest verified or a pinned backup, and dry-run never calls rm. Lint, comment policy, Bun-import policy and typecheck pass on the branch merged with current main, and the non-database suites pass locally. Approving.

Two follow-ups worth a small commit here or a separate PR:

  • tryDiscoverBackup swallows a failed checksum verification into undefined, so a corrupt backup disappears from evaluatedCount, retainedBackups, totalRemainingBytes and the quota computation. It is neither deleted nor reported. A skippedBackups list in the result and the CLI report, with their size counted toward the quota, would close that.
  • Discovery now hashes the full dump and every object of every backup on every prune run. With hourly backups and 30 retained that is a full read of the backup directory daily. Cheaper existence and size checks for discovery, with full hashing only for the newest-good candidate, would keep the guarantee without the cost.

Nits: discovered[0] as DiscoveredBackup is a cast standing in for a non-null assertion, destructure instead; docs/configuration.md says the incomplete max age defaults to 24h for both .tmp and .incomplete but the code uses 24h and 0h.

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packages/services/tests/backup/prune.test.ts (1)

609-609: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Use same-length corruption for the object checksum test.

hello attachment is 16 bytes, but corrupted payload is 17. The byte-count check rejects the current fixture before SHA-256 verification, so this test still passes if object SHA-256 verification is removed.

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-        Buffer.from('corrupted payload', 'utf8'),
+        Buffer.from('bad!o attachment', 'utf8'),
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Update the corrupted payload fixture in the object checksum test to have the
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