Every backup writes vaultik-destination.txt at the destination root.
While the local index holds snapshots, a destination without it is
not present: snapshot create refuses before writing, prune and
snapshot purge fail, and snapshot list and snapshot remove act as for
a destination that cannot be listed. remote nuke deletes it last. The
file:// backend no longer creates its destination directory and checks
for it on every write; that protects a directory on a removable
volume, not a mount point.
Tests back up into directories that exist; fixtures standing for a
written destination carry the marker; two tests check they get past
it.
Judgement call: the marker is rewritten on every backup.
Deviation: for the complexity limit, two blocks moved, unchanged, into
snapshotNamesToCreate and confirmRemoveSnapshot.
Model: opus-5-5
snapshot purge, and the purge step of snapshot create --prune, logged a
failure to delete a snapshot from the local index, deleted that
snapshot's metadata from the destination store anyway, and exited 0. The
purge now stops at that snapshot with an error before touching its
remote metadata, so the command exits non-zero. Stopping matches what
the same loop already does when the remote delete fails; snapshots
purged before the failure stay purged.
The test drives snapshot purge only: the trigger that makes the local
index refuse the delete also breaks the backup's metadata export, so
snapshot create --prune cannot be tested that way.
Model: opus-5-5
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