Two independent reasons the nightly backup was not producing a snapshot.
zstd refuses to overwrite its -o target. A dump that fails midway therefore
wedges the job permanently rather than just losing one night: pg_dumpall dies
(the immich db is not up yet right after a boot), zstd still writes its empty
frame, pipefail aborts before the mv, and the orphaned .tmp then makes every
later run fail instantly on "already exists; not overwritten". Three nights
were lost that way from 2026-09-15. The sqlite branch already rm -f'd its tmp;
these two did not. -f closes it.
sftpgo moved its state onto the /var/lib/sftpgo bind mount, so the old
/home/connor/docs/sftpgo.db only tripped the "db missing, skipping" WARN --
sftpgo went unbacked-up from 2026-09-09 while the run still reported success.
Left as a WARN deliberately: a decommissioned service should not break the
nightly run. Read the WARNs.
Replaces the previous repo, which had split into two histories that never
met (mainframe on a dead GitLab remote, the laptops on Gitea) with 146
dirty files across three machines and the NAS never enrolled at all.
Branch-per-machine is gone. One main, with host differences expressed as
small files under hosts/<hostname>/ rather than as branches, so there is
nothing to merge. The reconciled zsh layer reduces 15-33 line forks to
1-7 effective lines per host; distro differences (oh-my-zsh prefix,
syntax-highlighting path, fd vs fdfind) are probed in common/ instead.
Fresh history: the old one carried six plaintext credentials, 45 MB of
mail caches, browser caches and vendored binaries. 5,096 tracked files
and 144 MB become 462 files and 2.6 MB. The .gitignore is now an
allowlist, which is what keeps that true.
Root cause of the rot: ~/.local/bin was a symlink to scripts/ with GOPATH
inside it, so every go install wrote into version control (2.2 GB on the
work laptop). PATH now points at the repo instead of the reverse.
Also: Hyprland replaces sway and is sourced in two halves so $browser is
defined before use; singleton automations carry ConditionHost= alongside
host-layer-only placement; ddns moves from cron to a guarded timer;
package manifests and pkg-snapshot/pkg-restore replace the X11-era
install_scripts/; networkmanager-dmenu added to system76 (the binding
always existed, the package never did).
connor