feat(admin): the nightly backup, made visible

It has run since the beginning and nothing showed it. A backup nobody can see is
a backup nobody knows has been failing, and the failure is quiet: a volume gone
read-only, a disk that filled, a container that has not been up at midnight all
week. The first anybody hears of it is the day they need one.

`ListBackupRuns` was already in the store and exposed nowhere. Now there is a
list, a download, and a button that takes one now — the same work the nightly job
does without its "one a day" check, because waiting until tonight to learn whether
backups work at all is how somebody finds out on the day they need one, and it is
the only way to get a snapshot from *before* something you are about to do.

Restoring is deliberately not a button. Swapping a database under a server that
is writing to it means stopping every writer, replacing the file and reopening,
and a half-done version of that destroys the thing it was restoring. The panel
says what to do instead.

`RunBackupNow` turns out to have been a second copy of the backup logic, written
for a button that did not exist yet, and the two had already drifted: it never
created the backups directory and logged nothing. One implementation now.

Administrators only, and sessions only. A backup is a complete copy of the
database, so this hands out everybody's data in one file.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
This commit is contained in:
Kristian Wind
2026-08-18 09:04:43 +02:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5
parent 04a7ba1024
commit 1da7ea64bf
5 changed files with 471 additions and 37 deletions
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package httpapi
import (
"fmt"
"net/http"
"os"
"path/filepath"
"strings"
"time"
"github.com/go-chi/chi/v5"
"github.com/kristianwind/verdande/internal/jobs"
)
// The nightly backup, made visible.
//
// It has run since the beginning and nothing showed it. A backup nobody can see is
// a backup nobody knows has been failing — and the failure mode is quiet: a volume
// that went read-only, a disk that filled, a container that has not been up at
// midnight for a week. The first time anybody finds out is the day they need one.
//
// Administrators only, and behind a session as well as the admin check. A backup
// file is a complete copy of the database, so downloading one is downloading
// everybody's data; a leaked API token must not be able to.
type backupRunJSON struct {
ID string `json:"id"`
Started string `json:"started_at"`
// Finished is absent while a backup is still running, and on one that was
// interrupted — which is the same shape from outside and honestly so: a run
// the process died in the middle of never finished.
Finished string `json:"finished_at,omitempty"`
Size int64 `json:"size_bytes"`
Error string `json:"error,omitempty"`
// Present says the file is still on disk. Rotation keeps the most recent
// fourteen, so an older row is a true record of a backup that was made and a
// file that is no longer there — and a download link for it would 404.
Present bool `json:"present"`
}
func (s *Server) handleListBackups(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
runs, err := s.db.ListBackupRuns(r.Context(), parseLimit(r.URL.Query().Get("limit"), 30, 100))
if err != nil {
s.internal(w, r, "list backups", err)
return
}
out := make([]backupRunJSON, 0, len(runs))
for _, b := range runs {
j := backupRunJSON{
ID: b.ID, Started: b.StartedAt.Format(time.RFC3339),
Size: b.SizeBytes, Error: b.Error,
}
if b.FinishedAt != nil {
j.Finished = b.FinishedAt.Format(time.RFC3339)
}
if b.Path != "" {
if _, err := os.Stat(b.Path); err == nil {
j.Present = true
}
}
out = append(out, j)
}
writeJSON(w, http.StatusOK, map[string]any{"backups": out})
}
// handleRunBackup takes one now.
//
// The same function the nightly job runs, without the "has one run today" check.
// Waiting until tonight to learn whether backups work at all is how somebody finds
// out on the day they need one — and it is the only way to get a snapshot from
// *before* something you are about to do.
//
// Synchronous. A backup of a homelab database is a second or two, and a button
// that returns immediately and tells you nothing is a button you press twice.
func (s *Server) handleRunBackup(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
if err := jobs.Backup(r.Context(), s.cfg, s.db, s.log); err != nil {
s.internal(w, r, "run backup", err)
return
}
runs, err := s.db.ListBackupRuns(r.Context(), 1)
if err != nil || len(runs) == 0 {
w.WriteHeader(http.StatusNoContent)
return
}
b := runs[0]
j := backupRunJSON{
ID: b.ID, Started: b.StartedAt.Format(time.RFC3339),
Size: b.SizeBytes, Error: b.Error, Present: true,
}
if b.FinishedAt != nil {
j.Finished = b.FinishedAt.Format(time.RFC3339)
}
writeJSON(w, http.StatusCreated, j)
}
// handleDownloadBackup sends one backup file.
//
// The path comes from the row rather than from the request, and is then checked to
// be inside the backups directory anyway. The row is written by this process and
// should always be safe; the check is there because "should always" is how a path
// traversal gets shipped, and the thing on the other side of it is every account's
// data in one file.
func (s *Server) handleDownloadBackup(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
runs, err := s.db.ListBackupRuns(r.Context(), 100)
if err != nil {
s.internal(w, r, "list backups", err)
return
}
id := chi.URLParam(r, "backupID")
var path string
for _, b := range runs {
if b.ID == id {
path = b.Path
break
}
}
if path == "" {
writeError(w, http.StatusNotFound, CodeNotFound, "not found")
return
}
dir, err := filepath.Abs(s.cfg.BackupsDir())
if err != nil {
s.internal(w, r, "backups dir", err)
return
}
full, err := filepath.Abs(path)
if err != nil || !strings.HasPrefix(full, dir+string(os.PathSeparator)) {
writeError(w, http.StatusNotFound, CodeNotFound, "not found")
return
}
file, err := os.Open(full)
if err != nil {
// Rotation keeps the most recent fourteen, so a row older than that is a
// true record with no file behind it. Not an error — a 404 is the honest
// answer to "send me that one".
writeError(w, http.StatusNotFound, CodeNotFound, "not found")
return
}
defer file.Close()
info, err := file.Stat()
if err != nil {
s.internal(w, r, "stat backup", err)
return
}
// The same treatment attachments get, and for a stronger reason: this is a
// SQLite database, and nothing should ever be tempted to render it inline.
w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/octet-stream")
w.Header().Set("Content-Disposition",
fmt.Sprintf("attachment; filename=%q", filepath.Base(full)))
w.Header().Set("X-Content-Type-Options", "nosniff")
http.ServeContent(w, r, "", info.ModTime(), file)
}
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package httpapi
import (
"net/http"
"testing"
)
// The backup panel exists because the job was invisible, so the thing to check is
// that it can be seen and asked for — and that the file it hands out is guarded
// like what it is, which is every account's data in one download.
func TestABackupCanBeTakenListedAndDownloaded(t *testing.T) {
ts := newTestServer(t)
ts.bootstrap(t)
// Nothing yet, and that is a state the list has to survive rather than a case
// nobody hits: it is what a fresh instance looks like.
_, empty := ts.do(t, "GET", "/api/v1/backups", nil)
if got, _ := empty["backups"].([]any); len(got) != 0 {
t.Fatalf("a fresh instance has %d backups", len(got))
}
resp, made := ts.do(t, "POST", "/api/v1/backups", nil)
if resp.StatusCode != http.StatusCreated {
t.Fatalf("run backup: status %d, body %v", resp.StatusCode, made)
}
id, _ := made["id"].(string)
if id == "" {
t.Fatal("the new run has no id")
}
if size, _ := made["size_bytes"].(float64); size <= 0 {
t.Errorf("size_bytes = %v — a backup of a database with rows in it is not empty", made["size_bytes"])
}
if made["error"] != nil {
t.Errorf("the backup reported an error: %v", made["error"])
}
_, listed := ts.do(t, "GET", "/api/v1/backups", nil)
rows, _ := listed["backups"].([]any)
if len(rows) != 1 {
t.Fatalf("listed %d backups, want 1", len(rows))
}
row := rows[0].(map[string]any)
if row["id"] != id {
t.Errorf("the listed run is not the one that was made")
}
if row["present"] != true {
t.Error("present = false on a backup that was just written")
}
// And the file itself, which must arrive as a download rather than as
// something a browser might try to render.
req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", ts.URL+"/api/v1/backups/"+id, nil)
req.Header.Set("Sec-Fetch-Site", "same-origin")
dl, err := ts.client.Do(req)
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
defer dl.Body.Close()
if dl.StatusCode != http.StatusOK {
t.Fatalf("download: status %d", dl.StatusCode)
}
if ct := dl.Header.Get("Content-Type"); ct != "application/octet-stream" {
t.Errorf("Content-Type = %q, want application/octet-stream", ct)
}
if cd := dl.Header.Get("Content-Disposition"); cd == "" || cd[:10] != "attachment" {
t.Errorf("Content-Disposition = %q, want an attachment", cd)
}
// An id that is not a backup is a 404, not a path to try opening.
if resp, _ := ts.do(t, "GET", "/api/v1/backups/../../etc/passwd", nil); resp.StatusCode == http.StatusOK {
t.Error("a traversal in the id was served")
}
if resp, _ := ts.do(t, "GET", "/api/v1/backups/nogetsomhelst", nil); resp.StatusCode != http.StatusNotFound {
t.Errorf("an unknown id: status %d, want 404", resp.StatusCode)
}
}
// Administrators only, and sessions only. A backup is a complete copy of the
// database — a leaked token that could download one turns a stolen credential into
// a copy of everybody's data.
func TestBackupsAreAdminsOnlyAndSessionsOnly(t *testing.T) {
ts := newTestServer(t)
ts.bootstrap(t)
other := ts.newUser(t, "anden@example.dk", "Anden")
for _, c := range []struct{ method, path string }{
{"GET", "/api/v1/backups"},
{"POST", "/api/v1/backups"},
{"GET", "/api/v1/backups/whichever"},
} {
if resp, _ := other.do(t, c.method, c.path, nil); resp.StatusCode != http.StatusForbidden {
t.Errorf("%s %s as an ordinary user: status %d, want 403", c.method, c.path, resp.StatusCode)
}
}
admin, err := ts.db.UserByEmail(t.Context(), "kristian@example.dk")
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
token := ts.apiToken(t, admin.ID)
for _, c := range []struct{ method, path string }{
{"GET", "/api/v1/backups"},
{"POST", "/api/v1/backups"},
} {
req, _ := http.NewRequest(c.method, ts.URL+c.path, nil)
req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer "+token)
resp, err := (&http.Client{}).Do(req)
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
resp.Body.Close()
if resp.StatusCode != http.StatusForbidden {
t.Errorf("%s %s with an admin's API token: status %d, want 403", c.method, c.path, resp.StatusCode)
}
}
}