Add checksums, delete-after-verified-sync, and boot trigger to Gitea backup

Three changes to the alpha -> vlda-01 backup pipeline:

- alpha now writes a sha256sum-format checksum alongside every dump,
  ACL'd for the pull account same as the dump itself.
- vlda-01 verifies each freshly-pulled dump's checksum before trusting
  it enough to delete the alpha-side copy - a mismatch removes the bad
  local copy instead and leaves alpha's for a retry, so neither end can
  end up trusting a corrupt file or losing the only good copy. This
  required loosening the giteabackup account from strictly read-only:
  the bind mount is now rw and the directory ACL grants rwx (needed for
  delete, a directory-level operation in POSIX), but per-file ACLs stay
  read-only - verified the boundary holds (rm succeeds, put/overwrite
  still fails with Permission denied).
- vlda-01 now also runs the sync once at every array startup via a
  second User Scripts entry (schedule.json only supports one schedule
  per script path), not just the daily 03:30 - hit the same VFAT
  execute-bit issue as before along the way (a wrapper can't directly
  exec a /boot-resident file, has to invoke it via bash).

Verified the full pipeline end-to-end with a genuinely fresh dump:
checksum generated, fetched, verified locally, both files deleted from
alpha only after a confirmed match.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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co-authored by Claude Sonnet 5
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@@ -373,13 +373,20 @@ config together) — also what Gitea's own restore procedure expects.
the date: `gitea dump` refuses to overwrite an existing filename, which
a plain per-day name would hit on any manual re-run (found this the hard
way testing it).
- Prunes to the last 14 archives.
- Writes a `sha256sum`-format `.sha256` file alongside each dump, so
`vlda-01` can verify integrity after transfer before trusting it enough
to delete the alpha-side copy (see below).
- Applies a POSIX ACL (`setfacl -m u:giteabackup:r`) to each new archive
so the pull account below can read it. **Has to happen explicitly per
file** — a default ACL on the directory alone isn't enough: `gitea dump`
creates each file `600`, and the resulting ACL mask neuters the
inherited grant (`getfacl` shows `#effective:---` if this step is
skipped).
**and its checksum file** so the pull account below can read them.
**Has to happen explicitly per file** — a default ACL on the directory
alone isn't enough: `gitea dump` creates each file `600`, and the
resulting ACL mask neuters the inherited grant (`getfacl` shows
`#effective:---` if this step is skipped).
- Prunes to the last 14 archives (dump + checksum pairs together) — a
**safety net only**: in normal operation `vlda-01` deletes each dump
right after a verified pull, well before this would ever trigger. Only
matters if `vlda-01` is offline long enough for dumps to pile up
unswept.
**Transport — a dedicated, restricted account on alpha**, not a shared or
personal credential:
@@ -387,18 +394,23 @@ personal credential:
existing `sftp` group — reuses the `Match Group sftp` /
`ForceCommand internal-sftp` block already in `sshd_config` for
`ftp_jens`/`ftp_alex`; no new sshd config needed.
- Chrooted to `/var/sftp/giteabackup/`, containing only a **read-only bind
mount** of `/srv/gitea/data/backups` (`/etc/fstab`, `bind,ro`) — even a
misused key can only ever read backup archives, never write, delete, or
reach anything else on the host. Verified: `touch` inside the mount
fails with "Read-only file system" even as root.
- Chrooted to `/var/sftp/giteabackup/`, containing only a bind mount of
`/srv/gitea/data/backups`. **Read-write** at the filesystem level (`rw`
in `/etc/fstab` — needed so `vlda-01` can delete a dump after verifying
it), but the *account's* actual privilege is narrower than that sounds:
the directory-level ACL grants `giteabackup` `rwx` (needed for
delete/unlink, which is a directory operation in POSIX), while each
individual file's ACL only grants `r`. Verified the boundary actually
holds: an SFTP `rm` on an existing dump succeeds, but an SFTP `put`
attempting to overwrite one fails with "Permission denied" — it can
delete a file wholesale, never tamper with one in place.
- Key-only auth: a dedicated ed25519 keypair generated on `vlda-01`
(private key never leaves it), `authorized_keys` further restricted
(`restrict,no-port-forwarding,no-X11-forwarding,no-agent-forwarding,no-pty`)
on top of the chroot/`ForceCommand`.
- **Plain SFTP, not real `rsync`**: `ForceCommand internal-sftp` blocks a
genuine `rsync --server` invocation from the client, so the transport
is SFTP `get`, not rsync.
is SFTP `get`/`rm`, not rsync.
**On `vlda-01`** — via the **User Scripts** plugin, not a raw
crontab/`/usr/local/sbin` script: Unraid's `/` and `/usr` are RAM-backed
@@ -412,13 +424,36 @@ box's other scheduled maintenance, no new persistence mechanism invented.
The SSH keypair needed no special handling: Unraid already auto-mirrors
`/root/.ssh` to `/boot/config/ssh/root/` on its own.
- Lists what's actually on alpha via SFTP, fetches only filenames not
already present locally — a run after several days offline catches up
on all of them, not just the newest, without re-downloading anything
already pulled.
already present locally (dump + its `.sha256`, when one exists — older
dumps from before checksums existed won't have one, and are just kept
as unverified without touching alpha's copy) — a run after several days
offline catches up on all of them, not just the newest, without
re-downloading anything already pulled.
- **Verifies each freshly-fetched dump's checksum before deleting
anything on alpha.** A match triggers an SFTP `rm` of both the dump and
its checksum file on alpha; a mismatch deletes the *bad local copy*
instead and leaves alpha's copy alone for a retry next run — a failed
or partial transfer never results in either end trusting a corrupt file
or losing the only good copy.
- **Also runs once at every array startup** (`gitea-backup-pull-onboot`,
a one-line wrapper around the same script, registered with
`"frequency": "boot"` — `schedule.json` only supports one schedule per
script path, so this needed a second entry rather than combining it with
the daily one), in addition to the daily `03:30` schedule — so a restart
after being offline catches up right away instead of waiting for the
next scheduled time. Fired via the User Scripts plugin's own
`disks_mounted` boot-event hook, which calls `startSchedule.php boot`
once per real boot; verified by invoking that exact call manually
(without a real reboot) and confirming the wrapper actually ran the
underlying script. **Gotcha hit twice building this**: a script that
tries to directly `exec` another file living on `/boot` fails with
"Permission denied", since `/boot` is VFAT and can never carry a Unix
execute bit — the wrapper has to invoke it via `bash <path>` instead of
relying on the file's own (nonexistent) `+x`.
- Lands in `/mnt/disks/WSD2L840/git/` — an **Unassigned Device** (external
disk, not part of the protected array), not the RAM-backed root — keeps
the last 30 locally, deeper history than alpha's own 14, given the
disk's ample headroom.
the last 30 locally, now the real long-term history given alpha deletes
its own copies right after a verified pull.
- **The device isn't guaranteed to already be mounted** when the script
runs, so it resolves the disk by filesystem label (`findfs
LABEL=WSD2L840`, not a hardcoded `/dev/sdX` — USB/Unassigned-Device
@@ -433,11 +468,13 @@ The SSH keypair needed no special handling: Unraid already auto-mirrors
Gitea container, unpack the chosen dump's DB/repos/etc. into `/data` per
Gitea's documented restore steps, restart, verify. Not automated.
**Verified end-to-end**: a real archive produced on alpha, pulled to
`vlda-01` via the actual scheduled-invocation code path (`startCustom.php`,
not just the raw script) and confirmed as a genuinely new file; a second
run correctly reported "up to date, nothing new to pull" rather than
re-fetching.
**Verified end-to-end**, including the full checksum-verify-then-delete
flow with a genuinely fresh dump (not just a re-run against existing
files): dump + checksum produced on alpha, pulled to `vlda-01` via the
actual scheduled-invocation code path (`startCustom.php`), checksum
verified locally (`sha256sum -c` → `OK`), both files then deleted from
alpha (confirmed empty afterward) — all through the real production
script, not a manual approximation of it.
### Password vault sync (KeePass, via Nextcloud)