Fix other sentences that carry faults the review named

A search of the four documents, the help text and config.example.yml
for the review's faults found these.

- prune help, and snapshot purge and snapshot list in README.md: a
  snapshot is dropped or reported when its manifest is gone, not its
  metadata or directory.
- README.md, version: the date printed is the commit date.
- README.md, Configuration: names the commands that start without a
  config that loads.
- README.md, snapshot purge: "each such snapshot" named nothing.
- README.md and docs/DATAMODEL.md: a backup can upload unchanged
  content again, so "uploads only what changed" was false.
- docs/REPOSTRUCTURE.md: db.zst.age holds more than one snapshot's
  rows.
- ARCHITECTURE.md: "database records" read as a noun.

Model: fable-5-1

.dockerignore

@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+# .dockerignore does NOT use .gitignore semantics. Docker matches with
+# moby/patternmatcher: filepath.Match plus `**`, so `*` does not cross
+# `/` and an unprefixed pattern is anchored at the context root. Every
+# depth-independent pattern therefore needs `**/`, or `config/.env` and
+# `certs/server.key` still ship while this file reads as solved. Only
+# genuinely root-anchored entries go unprefixed. Never transplant these
+# into .gitignore, where `**/` is wrong.
+#
+# Matching is case-sensitive, so secrets use character ranges rather
+# than an ALL-CAPS twin, which would still miss `Server.Key`.
+#
+# Extend with this repo's own host-built artifacts, written anchored:
+# `/myapp`, never `**/myapp`, which also matches `cmd/myapp/` and
+# deletes the package directory from the context.
+
+# .git is sent without its config. Without a VERSION build argument the
+# stage that compiles runs `git describe --tags --always` on .git, which
+# does not need .git/config; that file can hold a credential, such as a
+# password in a remote URL or the token the CI checkout step stores there.
+# Each submodule keeps a config with the same exposure in its git directory
+# under .git/modules/, nested again for a submodule's own submodules, or in
+# its own .git directory when it keeps one.
+# KNOWN GAP: a submodule whose name has a `config` segment (`config`,
+# `deploy/config`, `config/lib`) loses its whole git directory, because
+# `**/.git/modules/**/config` also matches that segment's directory
+# under .git/modules/. Go's version stamping then fails the build;
+# nothing leaks. Name such a submodule without that segment:
+# `git submodule add --name`.
+**/.git/config
+**/.git/modules/**/config
+
+# Agent scratch: one full checkout of the repo per in-flight agent.
+# Anchored because it occurs once where agents run at the repo root.
+# KNOWN GAP: a repo running agents in subdirectories still ships
+# `services/api/.claude/` and must add its own anchored entry.
+.claude
+
+# Environment files. `*.env` covers bare `.env` and the `prod.env`
+# convention. Re-include a committed template with a negation if the
+# build needs one: `!docs/example.env`.
+**/*.[eE][nN][vV]
+**/.[eE][nN][vV].*
+**/.[eE][nN][vV][rR][cC]
+
+# Private keys and the bundles carrying them. Public certificates
+# (*.crt, *.cer) are deliberately absent: they are legitimate inputs.
+**/*.[pP][eE][mM]
+**/*.[kK][eE][yY]
+**/*.[pP]12
+**/*.[pP][fF][xX]
+**/[iI][dD]_[rR][sS][aA]
+**/[iI][dD]_[dD][sS][aA]
+**/[iI][dD]_[eE][cC][dD][sS][aA]
+**/[iI][dD]_[eE][cC][dD][sS][aA]_[sS][kK]
+**/[iI][dD]_[eE][dD]25519
+**/[iI][dD]_[eE][dD]25519_[sS][kK]
+
+# Dependencies: restored inside the image, never copied in.
+**/node_modules
+
+# OS metadata.
+**/.DS_Store
+**/Thumbs.db
+
+# Editor state: never a build input, and it churns COPY.
+**/*.swp
+**/*.swo
+**/*~
+**/*.bak
+**/.idea
+**/.vscode
+**/*.sublime-*
+
+# This repo's own host-built artifacts.
+/vaultik
+/dist
+/.tool
+/coverage.out
+/coverage.html

.editorconfig

@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+root = true
+
+[*]
+indent_style = space
+indent_size = 4
+end_of_line = lf
+charset = utf-8
+trim_trailing_whitespace = true
+insert_final_newline = true
+
+[Makefile]
+indent_style = tab
+
+[*.go]
+indent_style = tab

.gitea/workflows/check.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+name: check
+on: [push]
+jobs:
+    check:
+        runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+        steps:
+            # actions/checkout v4.2.2, 2026-02-22
+            - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683
+            - run: script/cibuild

.gitea/workflows/release.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+name: release
+on:
+  push:
+    tags: ["v*"]
+jobs:
+  release:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      # actions/checkout v4, 2024-09-16
+      - uses: actions/checkout@34e114876b0b11c390a56381ad16ebd13914f8d5
+        with:
+          # goreleaser needs the tags and the full history: the version
+          # it stamps comes from the tag, and the changelog comes from
+          # the commits since the previous one. A shallow checkout
+          # silently produces a mislabelled release.
+          fetch-depth: 0
+      # goreleaser is not a compiler: it shells out to `go` for the
+      # `before:` hook and for every one of the four cross-compiles.
+      # Without this step the release either fails at the before-hook or,
+      # worse, ships binaries built by whatever Go the runner happens to
+      # carry. check.yml's runner gets the same Go through
+      # script/bootstrap, which calls script/install-go, and uses it only
+      # for `go mod download` and gofmt; it compiles inside the
+      # digest-pinned Dockerfile images.
+      #
+      # actions/setup-go would pin the action by commit sha, but the Go
+      # tarball it downloads at runtime is verified against no value in
+      # this repo, and the action exposes no checksum input.
+      # REPO_POLICIES.md requires every external reference to be pinned
+      # by hash with no exceptions, and this is the compiler that
+      # produces the published binaries -- the input where a substituted
+      # artifact matters most. So Go is installed the way goreleaser is:
+      # script/install-go downloads the exact archive for go.mod's `go`
+      # directive and refuses it unless its sha256 matches the value
+      # committed in the script, then puts .tool/go/bin on PATH for the
+      # steps below.
+      - name: Install Go
+        run: script/install-go
+      - name: Install goreleaser
+        run: script/install-goreleaser
+      - name: Release
+        run: script/release
+        env:
+          # RELEASE_TOKEN is a repository Actions secret: a Gitea access
+          # token with write access to this repository's releases (scope
+          # write:repository), owned by an account that can publish here.
+          # It is deliberately not the runner's automatic token, which is
+          # not guaranteed to carry that scope.
+          GITEA_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.RELEASE_TOKEN }}
+          # Build with the toolchain install-go just verified, never a
+          # different one auto-downloaded from a `toolchain` directive:
+          # the point of the hash pin is that this exact compiler makes
+          # the release.
+          GOTOOLCHAIN: local

.gitignore

@@ -1,22 +1,62 @@
-# Binary
-vaultik
-
-# Test artifacts
-*.out
-*.test
-coverage.html
-coverage.out
-
-# IDE
-.vscode/
-.idea/
-*.swp
-*.swo
-
 # OS
 .DS_Store
 Thumbs.db
 
-# Local config for development
+# Editors
+*.swp
+*.swo
+*~
+*.bak
+.idea/
+.vscode/
+*.sublime-*
+
+# Agent scratch (worktrees of this repo, created and destroyed by
+# in-flight tooling). Unanchored: .gitignore patterns already match at
+# every depth, so no prefix is wanted here. This is not a .dockerignore
+# entry and must not be given a `**/` prefix on the way into one.
+.claude/
+
+# Node
+node_modules/
+
+# Secrets. Unanchored like every entry above, so each matches at every
+# depth. Matching is case-sensitive on Linux, so names use character
+# ranges rather than a lowercase form that misses `Server.Key`.
+
+# Environment files. `*.env` covers bare `.env` and the `prod.env`
+# convention. Only the templates `example.env` and `sample.env` are
+# re-included below. A repository that commits any other template adds
+# its own negation after these lines, for example `!.env.example`.
+*.[eE][nN][vV]
+.[eE][nN][vV].*
+.[eE][nN][vV][rR][cC]
+!example.env
+!sample.env
+
+# Private keys and the bundles carrying them.
+*.[pP][eE][mM]
+*.[kK][eE][yY]
+*.[pP]12
+*.[pP][fF][xX]
+[iI][dD]_[rR][sS][aA]
+[iI][dD]_[dD][sS][aA]
+[iI][dD]_[eE][cC][dD][sS][aA]
+[iI][dD]_[eE][cC][dD][sS][aA]_[sS][kK]
+[iI][dD]_[eE][dD]25519
+[iI][dD]_[eE][dD]25519_[sS][kK]
+
+# Go build and test output.
+*.log
+*.out
+*.test
+coverage.html
+
+# This repo's own host-built artifacts.
+/vaultik
+/dist/
+/.tool/
+
+# Local configs for development; they hold storage credentials.
 local-config.yaml
 dev-config.yaml

.golangci.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,103 @@
+version: "2"
+
+# Config schema uses the golangci-lint v2 layout (settings live under
+# linters.settings, not top-level linters-settings) so that the
+# thresholds below are actually applied by golangci-lint >= v2.
+
+run:
+  timeout: 5m
+  modules-download-mode: readonly
+
+linters:
+  default: all
+  enable:
+    # Successor to the deprecated gomodguard. Named explicitly, rather than
+    # left to `default: all`, because it carries the module policy below.
+    - gomodguard_v2
+  disable:
+    # Genuinely incompatible with project patterns
+    - exhaustruct      # Requires all struct fields
+    - exhaustruct_v5   # Requires all struct fields (successor to exhaustruct)
+    - godot            # Requires comments to end with periods
+    - wrapcheck        # Too verbose for internal packages
+    - varnamelen       # Short names like db, id are idiomatic Go
+    # Deprecated: the warning is attached to the old name, so it is
+    # silenced by disabling that name, not by enabling the successor.
+    - wsl              # Deprecated, replaced by wsl_v5
+    - gomodguard       # Deprecated, replaced by gomodguard_v2
+  settings:
+    lll:
+      line-length: 88
+    funlen:
+      lines: 80
+      statements: 50
+    cyclop:
+      max-complexity: 15
+    dupl:
+      threshold: 100
+    depguard:
+      # Test-support code must not be compiled into the shipped binary. A
+      # test-support package exists to hand a test privileges the program
+      # itself must never have, so a file that is not a test must not import
+      # one. Test files, and the files inside a package whose directory name
+      # ends in `test`, are where that code belongs, and are exempt.
+      #
+      # The deny list below is the one part of this file a repository is
+      # expected to extend, and the only part it may. depguard matches an
+      # import path against a list of prefixes, so it cannot be told "any path
+      # whose last segment ends in test"; a repository's own test-support
+      # packages have to be named here one at a time, by full import path,
+      # under a module path that differs from repository to repository. Add
+      # them; change nothing else.
+      rules:
+        test-support:
+          list-mode: lax
+          files:
+            - "$all"
+            - "!$test"
+            - "!**/*test/**"
+          deny:
+            - pkg: net/http/httptest
+              desc: >-
+                Test-support code belongs in test files and in packages whose
+                directory name ends in test, not in the shipped binary.
+            - pkg: sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/storage/faultstore
+              desc: >-
+                Test-support code belongs in test files and in packages whose
+                directory name ends in test, not in the shipped binary.
+    # Only decisions already recorded in the Go package defaults are
+    # listed here. Every entry matches the module path exactly.
+    gomodguard_v2:
+      blocked:
+        - module: github.com/rs/zerolog
+          recommendations:
+            - log/slog
+          reason: "Structured logging is stdlib log/slog."
+        # One entry per pre-fork module path, because the later releases
+        # are separate paths. A prefix match would be shorter but would
+        # also reach github.com/go-redis/redismock, the test double for
+        # the successor these entries recommend.
+        - module: github.com/go-redis/redis
+          recommendations:
+            - github.com/redis/go-redis/v9
+          reason: "Pre-fork module; use the maintained go-redis v9."
+        - module: github.com/go-redis/redis/v7
+          recommendations:
+            - github.com/redis/go-redis/v9
+          reason: "Pre-fork module; use the maintained go-redis v9."
+        - module: github.com/go-redis/redis/v8
+          recommendations:
+            - github.com/redis/go-redis/v9
+          reason: "Pre-fork module; use the maintained go-redis v9."
+        - module: github.com/sergi/go-diff
+          recommendations:
+            - github.com/aymanbagabas/go-udiff
+          reason: "No unified diff output; use go-udiff."
+        - module: github.com/hexops/gotextdiff
+          recommendations:
+            - github.com/aymanbagabas/go-udiff
+          reason: "Unmaintained fork; use go-udiff."
+
+issues:
+  max-issues-per-linter: 0
+  max-same-issues: 0

.goreleaser.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+version: 2
+
+project_name: vaultik
+
+# This repo lives on Gitea, not GitHub. Without this block goreleaser
+# talks to the GitHub API by default and a `goreleaser release` either
+# fails outright or publishes somewhere nobody is looking.
+gitea_urls:
+  api: https://git.eeqj.de/api/v1
+  download: https://git.eeqj.de
+
+before:
+  hooks:
+    - go mod tidy
+
+builds:
+  - id: vaultik
+    main: ./cmd/vaultik
+    binary: vaultik
+    env:
+      - CGO_ENABLED=0
+    goos:
+      - linux
+      - darwin
+    goarch:
+      - amd64
+      - arm64
+    ldflags:
+      - -s -w
+      - -X 'sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/globals.Version={{ .Version }}'
+      - -X 'sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/globals.Commit={{ .Commit }}'
+      - -X 'sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/globals.CommitDate={{ slice .CommitDate 0 10 }}'
+
+archives:
+  - id: default
+    name_template: "{{ .ProjectName }}_{{ .Version }}_{{ .Os }}_{{ .Arch }}"
+    formats:
+      - tar.gz
+    files:
+      - LICENSE
+      - README.md
+
+checksum:
+  name_template: "checksums.txt"
+  algorithm: sha256
+
+# A snapshot is not a release and must not name itself like one. The
+# previous `{{ incpatch .Version }}-next` derived a plausible-looking
+# release number from the last tag -- and with no tags in the repo at
+# all, from goreleaser's fabricated v0.0.0.
+snapshot:
+  version_template: "dev-{{ slice .FullCommit 0 12 }}"
+
+changelog:
+  sort: asc
+  use: git
+  filters:
+    exclude:
+      - "^docs:"
+      - "^test:"
+      - "^chore:"
+      - "Merge pull request"
+      - "Merge branch"
+
+release:
+  draft: true
+  prerelease: auto

AGENTS.md

@@ -38,10 +38,9 @@ Version: 2025-06-08
 1. Before committing, tests must pass (`make test`), linting must pass
    (`make lint`), and code must be formatted (`make fmt`).  For go, those
    makefile targets should use `go fmt` and `go test -v ./...` and
-   `golangci-lint run`.  When you think your changes are complete, rather
+   `golangci-lint run`.  Each Makefile target does exactly one thing — to
-   than making three different tool calls to check, you can just run `make
+   run lint + fmt-check + test together (the standard pre-commit gate),
-   test && make fmt && make lint` as a single tool call which will save
+   use `make check`.
-   time.
 
 2. Always write a `Makefile` with the default target being `test`, and with
    a `fmt` target that formats the code.  The `test` target should run all
@@ -84,8 +83,8 @@ Version: 2025-06-08
    possible to mock or stub these side-effects in tests.
 
 9. Always use structured logging.  Log any relevant state/context with the
-   messages (but do not log secrets).  If stdout is not a terminal, output
+   messages (but do not log secrets).  If the log stream is not a terminal,
-   the structured logs in jsonl format.
+   output the structured logs in jsonl format.
 
 10. Avoid using bare strings or numbers in code, especially if they appear
     anywhere more than once.  Always define a constant (usually at the top
@@ -103,3 +102,29 @@ Version: 2025-06-08
     build files are acceptable in the root, but source code and other files
     should be organized in appropriate subdirectories.
 
+13. Pre-1.0: NEVER add a database migration. Migrations are supported, but
+    nothing is installed anywhere yet, so there is nothing to migrate. To
+    change the schema, edit `internal/database/schema/001.sql` (and any
+    code that touches the affected tables) directly. After 1.0, each schema
+    change is a new numbered file in that directory and a released file is
+    never edited; an existing local database is then migrated when vaultik
+    is updated. Before 1.0, a local database left on an older schema is
+    deleted and re-created by a full backup. See
+    [`docs/DATAMODEL.md`](docs/DATAMODEL.md#schema-migrations).
+
+14. Never use `git add -A`.  Stage only the files you intentionally
+    changed.
+
+15. Commit messages carry no attribution or advertising trailers for the
+    tool that helped write the code, or for its vendor: the owner is the
+    sole author of code written with a tool.
+
+16. Run the whole test suite with `make test` every time, and read its full
+    output.  Never run `go test`, a single test or a single package, and
+    never grep the output.
+
+17. Do not stop working on a task until the definition of done given in the
+    initial instruction is met: all of the work, not part or most of it.
+
+18. For estimates: backing up over 2.5Gbit/s ethernet to an S3 server
+    backed by 2000MB/sec SSD takes about 4 seconds per gigabyte.

ARCHITECTURE.md

@@ -0,0 +1,401 @@
+# vaultik architecture
+
+This document describes how the `vaultik` code is organised. It covers three
+things:
+
+- the packages
+- how they are wired together
+- what happens during a backup, a restore, a verify and a prune
+
+Two other documents cover the stored data:
+
+- [docs/DATAMODEL.md](docs/DATAMODEL.md) describes the local index.
+- [docs/REPOSTRUCTURE.md](docs/REPOSTRUCTURE.md) describes the layout of the
+  destination.
+
+## Terms
+
+- **Snapshot**: one backup of the paths listed under one name in the config.
+- **Chunk**: a piece of a file's content. A chunk is named by the SHA-256 hash
+  of its content.
+- **Blob**: one object at the destination. It holds many chunks, compressed and
+  then encrypted.
+- **Local index**: the SQLite database on the backed-up machine.
+- **Destination**: the place the backups are stored.
+- **Manifest**: the unencrypted list of the blobs one snapshot uses.
+- **Remote key**: a hash of the snapshot ID. It names the snapshot's directory
+  at the destination.
+
+## How a backup moves data
+
+```
+source files
+     │
+     ▼
+  Scanner    walks the paths and finds the files that changed
+     │
+     ▼
+  Chunker    cuts each changed file into chunks
+     │
+     ▼
+  Packer     packs new chunks into a blob, compressed and encrypted
+     │
+     ▼
+  Storer     uploads the blob to the destination
+```
+
+## Packages
+
+- `cmd/vaultik`: the `main` function. It starts optional profiling and calls
+  `cli.Entry`.
+- `internal/cli`: the commands, their flags and their help text. It builds the
+  application, takes the lock and handles interrupts.
+- `internal/vaultik`: the code behind each command. `Vaultik` holds every
+  dependency a command uses.
+- `internal/snapshot`: the `Scanner`, which backs up one path, and the
+  `SnapshotManager`, which creates snapshot records and uploads their metadata.
+- `internal/chunker`: cuts a stream into chunks with the FastCDC algorithm.
+- `internal/blob`: the `Packer`, which collects chunks into blobs.
+- `internal/blobgen`: the writer that hashes, compresses and encrypts a blob,
+  and the reader that reverses it.
+- `internal/database`: the local index. It holds the schema and the repository
+  types that read and write the tables.
+  [docs/DATAMODEL.md](docs/DATAMODEL.md#code) says which type serves which
+  table.
+- `internal/storage`: the `Storer` interface and its three implementations, for
+  S3, a local directory and rclone.
+- `internal/s3`: the S3 client that the S3 `Storer` uses.
+- `internal/config`: loads and checks the config file.
+- `internal/ui`: formats the status lines, warnings and errors a user sees.
+- `internal/log`: the logger. It writes to stderr.
+- `internal/pidlock`: the lock that keeps two data-changing commands from
+  running at once.
+- `internal/globals`: the version, commit and commit date, set when the binary
+  is built.
+- `internal/types`: distinct types for IDs, hashes and paths.
+
+## Wiring
+
+The application is assembled with [uber-go/fx](https://github.com/uber-go/fx), a
+dependency injection library. `cli.NewApp` lists the providers:
+
+```go
+fx.Supply(config.Path(opts.ConfigPath)),
+fx.Supply(opts.LogOptions),
+fx.Provide(globals.New),
+fx.Provide(log.New),
+config.Module,
+database.Module,
+log.Module,
+storage.Module,
+snapshot.Module,
+fx.Provide(vaultik.New),
+fx.Invoke(setupGlobals),
+fx.NopLogger,
+```
+
+Each module provides these:
+
+- `config.Module` provides `*config.Config`, from `config.Load`.
+- `database.Module` provides `*database.DB` and `*database.Repositories`. It
+  creates the index file with mode `0600` when it does not exist.
+- `storage.Module` provides the `storage.Storer` that the config selects.
+- `snapshot.Module` provides the `snapshot.ScannerFactory` and the
+  `*snapshot.SnapshotManager`.
+- `vaultik.New` provides `*vaultik.Vaultik`.
+
+A command runs through `cli.RunOperation`. It works like this:
+
+- `RunWithApp` takes the lock when the command changes data, and then starts the
+  application.
+- The command's function runs in its own goroutine.
+- When the function returns, it asks the application to shut down.
+- On `SIGINT` or `SIGTERM`, the stop hook cancels the `Vaultik` context. It then
+  waits for the function to return, so that its temporary files are removed.
+- The wait ends after 30 seconds at most.
+
+The `config` commands, `database delete`, `completion` and `version` do not
+build the application.
+
+## Backup
+
+`Vaultik.CreateSnapshot` runs a backup. It does these steps in order:
+
+- `EnsureStorageBinding` checks that the local index belongs to the configured
+  destination.
+- `markDestination` checks the marker file and then writes it.
+- `PruneDatabase` removes unfinished snapshots and unused records from the
+  local index.
+- `createNamedSnapshot` runs once for each snapshot name.
+- With `--prune`, `runPostBackupPrune` removes old snapshots and unused data.
+
+`CreateSnapshot` calls `skipPostBackupPrune` instead of `runPostBackupPrune` in
+these cases:
+
+- `--skip-errors` skipped a file or directory that could not be read.
+- A configured path held nothing.
+- An earlier snapshot of the same name found a mount point that this backup did
+  not find.
+
+`PruneDatabase` must succeed before anything is scanned. An unfinished snapshot
+left in the index would make the backup skip files that were never fully
+stored.
+
+### One snapshot
+
+`createNamedSnapshot` does these steps:
+
+- `resolveSnapshotPaths` makes each configured path absolute and resolves
+  symlinks.
+- `SnapshotManager.CreateSnapshotWithName` creates the snapshot record. The
+  record is not yet marked complete.
+- `Scanner.Scan` backs up each path in turn.
+- `finalizeSnapshotMetadata` uploads the snapshot's metadata and marks the
+  snapshot complete.
+
+A new `Scanner` is created for each snapshot, from `ScannerFactory`. It owns a
+`Chunker` and a `Packer`.
+
+### Scanning one path
+
+`Scanner.Scan` works in these steps:
+
+- `repairInterruptedBlobs` deletes the records of blobs whose upload never
+  finished. Their data is then stored again.
+- `loadDatabaseState` loads the known files and chunks into memory.
+- `scanPhase` walks the path. It sorts each entry into changed or unchanged.
+- `detectDeletedFiles` counts the files that the previous snapshot of this name
+  had and that are now gone.
+- `batchAddFilesToSnapshot` records the unchanged files in the new snapshot.
+- `recordDirectories` records every directory, and the mount points found.
+- `processPhase` reads each changed file and stores it.
+
+The walk handles each kind of entry differently:
+
+- A regular file or a symlink is compared with its record in the index.
+- A directory is recorded with its metadata. It has no content to store.
+- A device node, a named pipe or a socket is skipped.
+- An entry that matches an exclude pattern is skipped. For a directory, so is
+  everything in it.
+
+### Deduplication
+
+Data is stored once at two levels.
+
+- **Files.** A file is not read again when its record in the index still matches
+  it.
+- **Chunks.** A chunk is named by the SHA-256 hash of its content. A chunk whose
+  hash is already in the index is not stored again.
+
+A file's record matches when all of these are unchanged:
+
+- the size
+- the modification time
+- the mode
+- the owner and group
+- the link target
+
+One case overrides the file check. A file is read again when it lists a chunk
+that no uploaded blob holds. This happens when the only snapshot that used the
+blob holding that chunk is removed. `loadFilesToRechunk` finds these files.
+
+### Chunks
+
+`chunker.Chunker` cuts a file with the FastCDC algorithm. The cut points depend
+on the content, so an insertion early in a file moves only nearby chunks.
+
+`chunk_size` sets the average chunk size. No chunk is larger than four times
+this size. Only a file's last chunk can be smaller than a quarter of it. With
+the default of 10 MB, those limits are 40 MB and 2.5 MB.
+
+`ChunkReaderStreaming` passes each chunk to a callback as it is found. The whole
+file is never held in memory.
+
+### Blobs
+
+`blob.Packer` collects new chunks into a blob. For each blob it does this:
+
+- It gives the blob a UUID and creates a temporary file.
+- It adds each chunk's bytes to a running SHA-256 hash.
+- In the same pass it compresses the bytes with zstd and encrypts them with
+  age. The result goes to the temporary file.
+- It records each chunk's offset and length within the blob.
+- It closes the blob when the next chunk would pass `blob_size_limit`, and at
+  the end of each path.
+
+The blob's name is `hex(SHA256(SHA256(uncompressed contents)))`. It is computed
+from the chunk data before compression and encryption.
+[docs/REPOSTRUCTURE.md](docs/REPOSTRUCTURE.md#blobs) says what follows from
+that.
+
+When a blob is closed, `Scanner.handleBlobReady` stores it:
+
+- It looks the blob up at the destination. A blob that is already there is not
+  uploaded again.
+- Otherwise it uploads the temporary file to
+  `blobs/<hash[0:2]>/<hash[2:4]>/<hash>`.
+- It records the upload in the index and links the blob to the snapshot.
+- It deletes the temporary file.
+
+A file's record is written to the index only after every blob that holds its
+chunks is uploaded.
+
+### Snapshot metadata
+
+`finalizeSnapshotMetadata` does these steps in order:
+
+- `PopulateSnapshotBlobs` records every blob the snapshot uses.
+- `UpdateSnapshotStatsExtended` stores the snapshot's totals.
+- `ExportSnapshotMetadata` uploads the metadata.
+- `MarkSnapshotComplete` marks the snapshot complete.
+
+Completion is recorded last on purpose. A backup that stops during the upload
+leaves the snapshot unfinished, and the next backup removes it and stores its
+data again.
+
+`ExportSnapshotMetadata` works on a copy of the index, never on the index
+itself:
+
+- It copies the index into a temporary directory with `VACUUM INTO`.
+- It deletes the rows of every other snapshot from the copy. It also deletes the
+  files and blobs that this snapshot does not use. It then deletes each chunk
+  that no remaining file and no remaining blob uses.
+- It keeps the `local_meta` and `schema_migrations` tables as they are. The
+  uploaded database therefore names the destination, and lists the migrations
+  that have run.
+- It runs `VACUUM`, so that no deleted row is left in the file.
+- It compresses the copy with zstd and encrypts it with age.
+- It builds the manifest from the copy.
+- It uploads `metadata/<remote-key>/db.zst.age`, and then
+  `metadata/<remote-key>/manifest.json.zst`.
+
+The manifest is uploaded last. A directory under `metadata/` with no manifest
+therefore marks a backup that did not finish.
+
+## Restore
+
+`Vaultik.Restore` does these steps:
+
+- `restoreIdentities` parses the age private key. A missing or malformed key
+  stops the restore before anything is downloaded.
+- `downloadSnapshotDB` downloads and decrypts the snapshot's database into a
+  temporary directory.
+- `getFilesToRestore` selects the files, from the paths given.
+- `restoreAllFiles` downloads blobs and writes the files.
+- With `--verify`, `verifyRestoredFiles` reads each restored file and checks its
+  chunk hashes.
+
+The restore does not read the local index or the manifest. It finds each file's
+chunks and blobs through the downloaded database.
+
+### Checks on the downloaded database
+
+Decryption shows that a database is readable. It does not show that the
+database is honest. The restore therefore checks it:
+
+- `database.OpenReadOnly` opens the file read-only. It refuses a file that has a
+  trigger, a view or a virtual table, or that lacks an expected table.
+- `verifySnapshotDBIdentity` checks that the snapshot in the database hashes to
+  the remote key that was asked for.
+- `containedRestorePath` refuses a stored path that would leave the target
+  directory. It also refuses to write through a symlink below the target.
+- A blob is not decompressed beyond the size that the database gives for it.
+- Each downloaded blob is hashed. The hash must match the blob's name.
+
+### Order of work
+
+`restorePlan` orders the files so that few blobs are on disk at once:
+
+- Downloaded blobs are kept decrypted in a cache directory.
+- A file is restored once every blob it needs is in the cache.
+- When no file is ready, the restore downloads the blobs for the file that
+  needs the fewest.
+- `restoreSweeper` deletes a cached blob once no remaining file needs it.
+
+A regular file is created with mode `0600` and gets its stored mode after its
+content is written. A directory gets its stored mode, owner and modification
+time after the whole restore.
+
+## Verify
+
+`Vaultik.VerifySnapshotWithOptions` checks a snapshot without the private key:
+
+- It downloads the manifest.
+- It checks that the snapshot's encrypted database is present.
+- It checks that each listed blob is present with the listed size.
+
+`Vaultik.RunDeepVerify` needs the private key. It does these steps:
+
+- It downloads the manifest and the database. It checks the database as a
+  restore does.
+- `verifyManifestAgainstDatabase` checks that both list the same blobs with the
+  same sizes.
+- `verifyBlobExistenceFromDB` checks that every blob is present with the
+  recorded size.
+- `verifyBlob` downloads each blob, checks the hash of each chunk in it, and
+  checks the hash that names the blob.
+
+## Prune
+
+`Vaultik.Prune` does three steps:
+
+- `CleanupLocalSnapshots` drops from the local index each snapshot whose
+  manifest is gone from the destination.
+- `PruneDatabase` removes unfinished snapshots and unused records from the
+  local index.
+- `PruneBlobs` deletes unused data at the destination.
+
+`PruneBlobs` reads every manifest at the destination. It then deletes two kinds
+of object, once they are older than `prune_grace_period`:
+
+- a blob that no manifest lists
+- a directory under `metadata/` that has no manifest, and whose snapshot is not
+  in the local index
+
+It deletes nothing when any manifest cannot be read.
+[docs/REPOSTRUCTURE.md](docs/REPOSTRUCTURE.md#pruning) explains why this is
+safe, and where it is not.
+
+## The destination
+
+`storage.Storer` is the only way the code reaches the destination. It has these
+methods:
+
+- `Put` and `PutWithProgress` store an object.
+- `Get` reads an object.
+- `Stat` reports an object's size.
+- `Delete` removes an object.
+- `List` and `ListStream` list the objects under a prefix.
+- `DeletePartialUploads` removes what an interrupted upload left behind.
+- `Info` describes the destination.
+
+`storage.NewStorer` picks the implementation from `storage_url`:
+
+- `s3://` gives the S3 implementation.
+- `file://` gives the local directory implementation.
+- `rclone://` gives the rclone implementation.
+
+With no `storage_url`, it builds the S3 implementation from the `s3` settings.
+
+## The marker file and the destination binding
+
+Two checks keep the local index and the destination in step.
+
+- `checkDestinationMarker` looks for `vaultik-destination.txt`. It fails when
+  the file is reported missing while the local index holds snapshots.
+- `EnsureStorageBinding` records the configured destination in the local index
+  on first use. Later it fails when the config names a different destination.
+
+Every command that changes data calls `EnsureStorageBinding` first.
+
+## Concurrency
+
+- The local index is opened with one connection, so its queries run one at a
+  time.
+- The index runs in SQLite's WAL mode. A second process can therefore read it
+  while a backup writes to it.
+- `Packer` guards its state with a mutex.
+- `Scanner` holds `packerMu` while a chunk is added to the packer and while a
+  blob is closed.
+- `Repositories.WithTx` runs a function in one transaction. It commits when the
+  function succeeds and rolls back when it fails.

CLAUDE.md

@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-# Rules
-
-Read the rules in AGENTS.md and follow them.
-
-# Memory
-
-* Claude is an inanimate tool.  The spam that Claude attempts to insert into
-  commit messages (which it erroneously refers to as "attribution") is not
-  attribution, as I am the sole author of code created using Claude.  It is
-  corporate advertising for Anthropic and is therefore completely
-  unacceptable in commit messages.
-
-* Tests should always be run before committing code.  No commits should be
-  made that do not pass tests.
-
-* Code should always be formatted before committing.  Do not commit
-  unformatted code.
-
-* Code should always be linted before committing.  Do not commit
-  unlinted code.
-
-* The test suite is fast and local.  When running tests, don't run
-  individual parts of the test suite, always run the whole thing by running
-  "make test".
-
-* Do not stop working on a task until you have reached the definition of
-  done provided to you in the initial instruction.  Don't do part or most of
-  the work, do all of the work until the criteria for done are met.

DESIGN.md

@@ -1,385 +0,0 @@
-# vaultik: Design Document
-
-`vaultik` is a secure  backup tool written in Go. It performs
-streaming backups using content-defined chunking, blob grouping, asymmetric
-encryption, and object storage. The system is designed for environments
-where the backup source host cannot store secrets and cannot retrieve or
-decrypt any data from the destination.
-
-The source host is **stateful**: it maintains a local SQLite index to detect
-changes, deduplicate content, and track uploads across backup runs. All
-remote storage is encrypted and append-only. Pruning of unreferenced data is
-done from a trusted host with access to decryption keys, as even the
-metadata indices are encrypted in the blob store.
-
----
-
-## Why
-
-ANOTHER backup tool??
-
-Other backup tools like `restic`, `borg`, and `duplicity` are designed for
-environments where the source host can store secrets and has access to
-decryption keys. I don't want to store backup decryption keys on my hosts,
-only public keys for encryption.
-
-My requirements are:
-
-* open source
-* no passphrases or private keys on the source host
-* incremental
-* compressed
-* encrypted
-* s3 compatible without an intermediate step or tool
-
-Surprisingly, no existing tool meets these requirements, so I wrote `vaultik`.
-
-## Design Goals
-
-1. Backups must require only a public key on the source host.
-2. No secrets or private keys may exist on the source system.
-3. Obviously, restore must be possible using **only** the backup bucket and
-   a private key.
-4. Prune must be possible, although this requires a private key so must be
-   done on different hosts.
-5. All encryption is done using [`age`](https://github.com/FiloSottile/age)
-   (X25519, XChaCha20-Poly1305).
-6. Compression uses `zstd` at a configurable level.
-7. Files are chunked, and multiple chunks are packed into encrypted blobs.
-   This reduces the number of objects in the blob store for filesystems with
-   many small files.
-9. All metadata (snapshots) is stored remotely as encrypted SQLite DBs.
-10. If a snapshot metadata file exceeds a configured size threshold, it is
-    chunked into multiple encrypted `.age` parts, to support large
-    filesystems.
-11. CLI interface is structured using `cobra`.
-
----
-
-## S3 Bucket Layout
-
-S3 stores only four things:
-
-1) Blobs: encrypted, compressed packs of file chunks.
-2) Metadata: encrypted SQLite databases containing the current state of the
-   filesystem at the time of the snapshot.
-3) Metadata hashes: encrypted hashes of the metadata SQLite databases.
-4) Blob manifests: unencrypted compressed JSON files listing all blob hashes
-   referenced in the snapshot, enabling pruning without decryption.
-
-```
-s3://<bucket>/<prefix>/
-├── blobs/
-│   ├── <aa>/<bb>/<full_blob_hash>.zst.age
-├── metadata/
-│   ├── <snapshot_id>.sqlite.age
-│   ├── <snapshot_id>.sqlite.00.age
-│   ├── <snapshot_id>.sqlite.01.age
-│   ├── <snapshot_id>.manifest.json.zst
-```
-
-To retrieve a given file, you would:
-
-* fetch `metadata/<snapshot_id>.sqlite.age` or `metadata/<snapshot_id>.sqlite.{seq}.age`
-* fetch `metadata/<snapshot_id>.hash.age`
-* decrypt the metadata SQLite database using the private key and reconstruct
-  the full database file
-* verify the hash of the decrypted database matches the decrypted hash
-* query the database for the file in question
-* determine all chunks for the file
-* for each chunk, look up the metadata for all blobs in the db
-* fetch each blob from `blobs/<aa>/<bb>/<blob_hash>.zst.age`
-* decrypt each blob using the private key
-* decompress each blob using `zstd`
-* reconstruct the file from set of file chunks stored in the blobs
-
-If clever, it may be possible to do this chunk by chunk without touching
-disk (except for the output file) as each uncompressed blob should fit in
-memory (<10GB).
-
-### Path Rules
-
-* `<snapshot_id>`: UTC timestamp in iso860 format, e.g. `2023-10-01T12:00:00Z`.  These are lexicographically sortable.
-* `blobs/<aa>/<bb>/...`: where `aa` and `bb` are the first 2 hex bytes of the blob hash.
-
-### Blob Manifest Format
-
-The `<snapshot_id>.manifest.json.zst` file is an unencrypted, compressed JSON file containing:
-
-```json
-{
-  "snapshot_id": "2023-10-01T12:00:00Z",
-  "blob_hashes": [
-    "aa1234567890abcdef...",
-    "bb2345678901bcdef0...",
-    ...
-  ]
-}
-```
-
-This allows pruning operations to determine which blobs are referenced without requiring decryption keys.
-
----
-
-## 3. Local SQLite Index Schema (source host)
-
-```sql
-CREATE TABLE files (
-  path TEXT PRIMARY KEY,
-  mtime INTEGER NOT NULL,
-  size INTEGER NOT NULL
-);
-
--- Maps files to their constituent chunks in sequence order
--- Used for reconstructing files from chunks during restore
-CREATE TABLE file_chunks (
-  path TEXT NOT NULL,
-  idx INTEGER NOT NULL,
-  chunk_hash TEXT NOT NULL,
-  PRIMARY KEY (path, idx)
-);
-
-CREATE TABLE chunks (
-  chunk_hash TEXT PRIMARY KEY,
-  sha256 TEXT NOT NULL,
-  size INTEGER NOT NULL
-);
-
-CREATE TABLE blobs (
-  blob_hash TEXT PRIMARY KEY,
-  final_hash TEXT NOT NULL,
-  created_ts INTEGER NOT NULL
-);
-
-CREATE TABLE blob_chunks (
-  blob_hash TEXT NOT NULL,
-  chunk_hash TEXT NOT NULL,
-  offset INTEGER NOT NULL,
-  length INTEGER NOT NULL,
-  PRIMARY KEY (blob_hash, chunk_hash)
-);
-
--- Reverse mapping: tracks which files contain a given chunk
--- Used for deduplication and tracking chunk usage across files
-CREATE TABLE chunk_files (
-  chunk_hash TEXT NOT NULL,
-  file_path TEXT NOT NULL,
-  file_offset INTEGER NOT NULL,
-  length INTEGER NOT NULL,
-  PRIMARY KEY (chunk_hash, file_path)
-);
-
-CREATE TABLE snapshots (
-  id TEXT PRIMARY KEY,
-  hostname TEXT NOT NULL,
-  vaultik_version TEXT NOT NULL,
-  created_ts INTEGER NOT NULL,
-  file_count INTEGER NOT NULL,
-  chunk_count INTEGER NOT NULL,
-  blob_count INTEGER NOT NULL
-);
-```
-
----
-
-## 4. Snapshot Metadata Schema (stored in S3)
-
-Identical schema to the local index, filtered to live snapshot state. Stored
-as a SQLite DB, compressed with `zstd`, encrypted with `age`. If larger than
-a configured `chunk_size`, it is split and uploaded as:
-
-```
-metadata/<snapshot_id>.sqlite.00.age
-metadata/<snapshot_id>.sqlite.01.age
-...
-```
-
----
-
-## 5. Data Flow
-
-### 5.1 Backup
-
-1. Load config
-2. Open local SQLite index
-3. Walk source directories:
-
-   * For each file:
-
-     * Check mtime and size in index
-     * If changed or new:
-
-       * Chunk file
-       * For each chunk:
-
-         * Hash with SHA256
-         * Check if already uploaded
-         * If not:
-
-           * Add chunk to blob packer
-       * Record file-chunk mapping in index
-4. When blob reaches threshold size (e.g. 1GB):
-
-   * Compress with `zstd`
-   * Encrypt with `age`
-   * Upload to: `s3://<bucket>/<prefix>/blobs/<aa>/<bb>/<hash>.zst.age`
-   * Record blob-chunk layout in local index
-5. Once all files are processed:
-   * Build snapshot SQLite DB from index delta
-   * Compress + encrypt
-   * If larger than `chunk_size`, split into parts
-   * Upload to:
-     `s3://<bucket>/<prefix>/metadata/<snapshot_id>.sqlite(.xx).age`
-6. Create snapshot record in local index that lists:
-    * snapshot ID
-    * hostname
-    * vaultik version
-    * timestamp
-    * counts of files, chunks, and blobs
-    * list of all blobs referenced in the snapshot (some new, some old) for
-      efficient pruning later
-7. Create snapshot database for upload
-8. Calculate checksum of snapshot database
-9. Compress, encrypt, split, and upload to S3
-10. Encrypt the hash of the snapshot database to the backup age key
-11. Upload the encrypted hash to S3 as `metadata/<snapshot_id>.hash.age`
-12. Create blob manifest JSON listing all blob hashes referenced in snapshot
-13. Compress manifest with zstd and upload as `metadata/<snapshot_id>.manifest.json.zst`
-14. Optionally prune remote blobs that are no longer referenced in the
-   snapshot, based on local state db
-
-### 5.2 Manual Prune
-
-1. List all objects under `metadata/`
-2. Determine the latest valid `snapshot_id` by timestamp
-3. Download and decompress the latest `<snapshot_id>.manifest.json.zst`
-4. Extract set of referenced blob hashes from manifest (no decryption needed)
-5. List all blob objects under `blobs/`
-6. For each blob:
-   * If the hash is not in the manifest:
-     * Issue `DeleteObject` to remove it
-
-### 5.3 Verify
-
-Verify runs on a host that has no state, but access to the bucket.
-
-1. Fetch latest metadata snapshot files from S3
-2. Fetch latest metadata db hash from S3
-3. Decrypt the hash using the private key
-4. Decrypt the metadata SQLite database chunks using the private key and
-   reassemble the snapshot db file
-5. Calculate the SHA256 hash of the decrypted snapshot database
-6. Verify the db file hash matches the decrypted hash
-7. For each blob in the snapshot:
-    * Fetch the blob metadata from the snapshot db
-    * Ensure the blob exists in S3
-    * Check the S3 content hash matches the expected blob hash
-    * If not using --quick mode:
-        * Download and decrypt the blob
-        * Decompress and verify chunk hashes match metadata
-
----
-
-## 6. CLI Commands
-
-```
-vaultik backup [--config <path>] [--cron] [--daemon] [--prune]
-vaultik restore --bucket <bucket> --prefix <prefix> --snapshot <id> --target <dir>
-vaultik prune --bucket <bucket> --prefix <prefix> [--dry-run]
-vaultik verify --bucket <bucket> --prefix <prefix> [--snapshot <id>] [--quick]
-vaultik fetch --bucket <bucket> --prefix <prefix> --snapshot <id> --file <path> --target <path>
-vaultik snapshot list --bucket <bucket> --prefix <prefix> [--limit <n>]
-vaultik snapshot rm --bucket <bucket> --prefix <prefix> --snapshot <id>
-vaultik snapshot latest --bucket <bucket> --prefix <prefix>
-```
-
-* `VAULTIK_PRIVATE_KEY` is required for `restore`, `prune`, `verify`, and
-  `fetch` commands.
-* It is passed via environment variable containing the age private key.
-
----
-
-## 7. Function and Method Signatures
-
-### 7.1 CLI
-
-```go
-func RootCmd() *cobra.Command
-func backupCmd() *cobra.Command
-func restoreCmd() *cobra.Command
-func pruneCmd() *cobra.Command
-func verifyCmd() *cobra.Command
-```
-
-### 7.2 Configuration
-
-```go
-type Config struct {
-    BackupPubKey      string  // age recipient
-    BackupInterval    time.Duration // used in daemon mode, irrelevant for cron mode
-    BlobSizeLimit     int64  // default 10GB
-    ChunkSize         int64 // default 10MB
-    Exclude           []string // list of regex of files to exclude from backup, absolute path
-    Hostname          string
-    IndexPath         string  // path to local SQLite index db, default /var/lib/vaultik/index.db
-    MetadataPrefix    string  // S3 prefix for metadata, default "metadata/"
-    MinTimeBetweenRun time.Duration  // minimum time between backup runs, default 1 hour - for daemon mode
-    S3                S3Config  // S3 configuration
-    ScanInterval      time.Duration  // interval to full stat() scan source dirs, default 24h
-    SourceDirs        []string  // list of source directories to back up, absolute paths
-}
-
-type S3Config struct {
-    Endpoint        string
-    Bucket          string
-    Prefix          string
-    AccessKeyID     string
-    SecretAccessKey string
-    Region          string
-}
-
-func Load(path string) (*Config, error)
-```
-
-### 7.3 Index
-
-```go
-type Index struct {
-    db *sql.DB
-}
-
-func OpenIndex(path string) (*Index, error)
-
-func (ix *Index) LookupFile(path string, mtime int64, size int64) ([]string, bool, error)
-func (ix *Index) SaveFile(path string, mtime int64, size int64, chunkHashes []string) error
-func (ix *Index) AddChunk(chunkHash string, size int64) error
-func (ix *Index) MarkBlob(blobHash, finalHash string, created time.Time) error
-func (ix *Index) MapChunkToBlob(blobHash, chunkHash string, offset, length int64) error
-func (ix *Index) MapChunkToFile(chunkHash, filePath string, offset, length int64) error
-```
-
-### 7.4 Blob Packing
-
-```go
-type BlobWriter struct {
-    // internal buffer, current size, encrypted writer, etc
-}
-
-func NewBlobWriter(...) *BlobWriter
-func (bw *BlobWriter) AddChunk(chunk []byte, chunkHash string) error
-func (bw *BlobWriter) Flush() (finalBlobHash string, err error)
-```
-
-### 7.5 Metadata
-
-```go
-func BuildSnapshotMetadata(ix *Index, snapshotID string) (sqlitePath string, err error)
-func EncryptAndUploadMetadata(path string, cfg *Config, snapshotID string) error
-```
-
-### 7.6 Prune
-
-```go
-func RunPrune(bucket, prefix, privateKey string) error
-```
-

Dockerfile

@@ -0,0 +1,108 @@
+# Lint phase. The linter is invoked directly rather than through `make
+# lint` or `script/lint`, which are themselves a docker build and would
+# recurse into a daemon that does not exist in a build step.
+# golangci/golangci-lint:v2.14.0, 2026-10-05
+FROM golangci/golangci-lint:v2.14.0@sha256:ad862ba6b3798cbe0fd9fd7408d498fd74fbd2623a92406b2fd3898faf0bf98f AS lint
+WORKDIR /src
+COPY go.mod go.sum ./
+# Without the time limit a stalled connection to the module proxy holds
+# this step, and every build on the host sharing it, until the kernel
+# drops the connection, which can take an hour. The limit is well above
+# the three minutes a working download can take on a busy build host.
+RUN for attempt in 1 2 3; do \
+        timeout 300 go mod download && exit 0; \
+        echo "go mod download attempt $attempt failed or ran over 300s" >&2; \
+    done; \
+    echo "module download failed: giving up after 3 attempts" >&2; \
+    exit 1
+COPY . .
+# `golangci-lint run` silently ignores an unknown top-level key in
+# .golangci.yml, such as a misspelt `linters:`; `config verify` fails on it.
+RUN golangci-lint config verify --config .golangci.yml
+RUN golangci-lint run --config .golangci.yml ./...
+
+# Test phase. -race needs cgo and so a C compiler, which the Debian Go
+# image ships and the alpine one does not.
+# golang:1.26.1 (Debian trixie), 2026-10-05
+FROM golang:1.26.1@sha256:cd78d88e00afadbedd272f977d375a6247455f3a4b1178f8ae8bbcb201743a8a AS test
+WORKDIR /src
+COPY go.mod go.sum ./
+# Limited and retried as in the lint phase above.
+RUN for attempt in 1 2 3; do \
+        timeout 300 go mod download && exit 0; \
+        echo "go mod download attempt $attempt failed or ran over 300s" >&2; \
+    done; \
+    echo "module download failed: giving up after 3 attempts" >&2; \
+    exit 1
+COPY . .
+RUN go test -timeout 90s -race -cover ./... || \
+    { echo "--- Rerunning with -v for details ---"; \
+      go test -timeout 90s -race -v ./...; exit 1; }
+
+# Build stage. Nothing is wanted from either phase above; the copies
+# are what make BuildKit build them first, so this stage cannot run
+# unless lint and test passed.
+# golang:1.26.1-alpine, 2026-03-17
+FROM golang:1.26.1-alpine@sha256:2389ebfa5b7f43eeafbd6be0c3700cc46690ef842ad962f6c5bd6be49ed82039 AS builder
+COPY --from=lint /src/go.sum /dev/null
+COPY --from=test /src/go.sum /dev/null
+RUN apk add --no-cache git
+# A tar-stream context keeps the sender's file owners, which git refuses.
+RUN git config --system --add safe.directory /src
+WORKDIR /src
+COPY go.mod go.sum ./
+# Limited and retried as in the lint phase above.
+RUN for attempt in 1 2 3; do \
+        timeout 300 go mod download && exit 0; \
+        echo "go mod download attempt $attempt failed or ran over 300s" >&2; \
+    done; \
+    echo "module download failed: giving up after 3 attempts" >&2; \
+    exit 1
+COPY . .
+
+# The VERSION build arg when one is given, otherwise
+# `git describe --tags --always` on the .git in the build context. The
+# commit and its date always come from that .git. With .git present, a
+# version that is still empty, dev or unknown, or a commit or date that
+# is unknown, fails the build: git is missing or could not read the
+# checkout, as when .git is a file pointing outside the context. A
+# context without .git, such as a source export, stamps "dev" and an
+# "unknown" commit and date.
+ARG VERSION
+RUN VERSION="${VERSION:-$(git describe --tags --always || echo dev)}"; \
+    commit="$(git rev-parse HEAD || echo unknown)"; \
+    commit_date="$(git show -s --format=%cs HEAD || echo unknown)"; \
+    if [ -e .git ]; then \
+        case "$VERSION" in ""|dev|unknown) \
+            echo "version is '$VERSION' although .git is present" >&2; \
+            exit 1 ;; \
+        esac; \
+        if [ "$commit" = unknown ] || [ "$commit_date" = unknown ]; then \
+            echo "commit is '$commit' and its date '$commit_date'" \
+                "although .git is present" >&2; \
+            exit 1; \
+        fi; \
+    fi; \
+    globals=sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/globals; \
+    CGO_ENABLED=0 go build -trimpath \
+        -ldflags="-s -w -X ${globals}.Version=${VERSION} \
+            -X ${globals}.Commit=${commit} \
+            -X ${globals}.CommitDate=${commit_date}" \
+        -o /vaultik ./cmd/vaultik
+
+# Runtime stage, and the last one: a plain `docker build .` builds this
+# stage's chain and nothing else.
+# alpine:3.21, 2026-02-25
+FROM alpine:3.21@sha256:c3f8e73fdb79deaebaa2037150150191b9dcbfba68b4a46d70103204c53f4709
+
+RUN apk add --no-cache ca-certificates
+
+# Copy binary from builder
+COPY --from=builder /vaultik /usr/local/bin/vaultik
+
+# Create non-root user
+RUN adduser -D -H -s /sbin/nologin vaultik
+
+USER vaultik
+
+ENTRYPOINT ["/usr/local/bin/vaultik"]

LICENSE

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+MIT License
+
+Copyright (c) 2025 Jeffrey Paul sneak@sneak.berlin
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
+of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
+in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
+to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
+copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
+furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
+copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
+AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
+LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
+OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
+SOFTWARE.

Makefile

@@ -1,54 +1,130 @@
-.PHONY: test fmt lint build clean all
+.PHONY: all bootstrap setup check test lint lint-fix fmt fmt-check build clean deps test-coverage local install release release-snapshot docker hooks
+
+# Where script/bootstrap installs Go when the host has none.
+export PATH := $(PATH):$(CURDIR)/.tool/go/bin
+
+# Version number, derived from git by script/version (`git describe
+# --tags --always --dirty`). This used to be a hardcoded
+# constant, which meant every local build claimed to be a release that
+# had never been tagged.
+VERSION := $(shell script/version)
+
+# $(shell) discards exit status, so a script/version that is missing,
+# non-executable or broken would otherwise leave VERSION empty and every
+# binary built here would print "vaultik " with no version at all. A
+# build that cannot determine what it is must not produce an artifact.
+ifeq ($(strip $(VERSION)),)
+$(error script/version produced no version string; a build that cannot \
+determine its version will not be made. Check that script/version exists \
+and is executable)
+endif
 
 # Build variables
-VERSION := $(shell git describe --tags --always --dirty 2>/dev/null || echo "dev")
+GIT_REVISION := $(shell git rev-parse HEAD 2>/dev/null || echo "unknown")
-COMMIT := $(shell git rev-parse HEAD 2>/dev/null || echo "unknown")
+GIT_COMMIT_DATE := $(shell git show -s --format=%cs HEAD 2>/dev/null || echo "unknown")
 
 # Linker flags
-LDFLAGS := -X 'git.eeqj.de/sneak/vaultik/internal/globals.Version=$(VERSION)' \
+LDFLAGS := -X 'sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/globals.Version=$(VERSION)' \
-           -X 'git.eeqj.de/sneak/vaultik/internal/globals.Commit=$(COMMIT)'
+           -X 'sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/globals.Commit=$(GIT_REVISION)' \
+           -X 'sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/globals.CommitDate=$(GIT_COMMIT_DATE)'
 
 # Default target
-all: test
+all: vaultik
 
-# Run tests
+# Install all development dependencies.
-test: lint fmt-check
+bootstrap:
-	go test -v ./...
+	@script/bootstrap
 
-# Check if code is formatted
+# Prepare a fresh clone: bootstrap plus pre-commit hook.
+setup:
+	@script/setup
+
+# Combined pre-commit/CI gate: tests, lint, format check.
+check:
+	@script/check
+
+# Run tests only, by building the test phase of the Dockerfile. This
+# runs the ENTIRE suite -- there is no separate integration target and
+# no build-tagged subset held back. In particular
+# internal/vaultik/integration_test.go, which does full
+# chunk -> pack -> encrypt -> upload -> restore round-trips, runs here.
+# A `test-integration` target used to exist and was removed: no file in
+# the repo carried a build tag, so `-tags=integration` selected nothing
+# extra and the target was an exact duplicate of this one.
+test:
+	@script/test
+
+# Check if code is formatted (read-only).
 fmt-check:
-	@if [ -n "$$(go fmt ./...)" ]; then \
+	@script/fmt-check
-		echo "Error: Code is not formatted. Run 'make fmt' to fix."; \
-		exit 1; \
-	fi
 
-# Format code
+# Format code.
 fmt:
-	go fmt ./...
+	@script/fmt
 
-# Run linter
+# Run linter only.
 lint:
-	golangci-lint run
+	@script/lint
 
-# Build binary
+# Apply the linter's autofixes (rewrites files).
-build:
+lint-fix:
-	go build -ldflags "$(LDFLAGS)" -o vaultik ./cmd/vaultik
+	@script/lint-fix
 
-# Clean build artifacts
+# Build binary. `build` is the name the org convention reaches for and
+# the one a caller checks the exit code of; `vaultik` is the file rule
+# that does the work, so an unchanged tree still short-circuits.
+#
+# This alias is not decorative. `build` was listed in .PHONY with no
+# rule, and a phony target with no prerequisites and no recipe is
+# already satisfied: `make build` printed "Nothing to be done" and
+# exited 0 without producing a binary (issue #110). Every name in
+# .PHONY needs a rule for that reason; TestPhonyTargetsAllHaveRules in
+# cmd/vaultik keeps it that way.
+build: vaultik
+
+vaultik: internal/*/*.go cmd/vaultik/*.go
+	go build -ldflags "$(LDFLAGS)" -o $@ ./cmd/vaultik
+
+# Clean build artifacts.
 clean:
 	rm -f vaultik
 	go clean
 
-# Install dependencies
+# Install dependencies. The linter is deliberately not installed here:
+# script/lint lints by building the lint phase of the Dockerfile, whose
+# FROM line is the single source of truth for the linter version. A
+# second, separately pinned copy on PATH could drift from it and make a
+# local `make lint` disagree with CI.
 deps:
 	go mod download
-	go install github.com/golangci/golangci-lint/cmd/golangci-lint@latest
 
-# Run tests with coverage
+# Run tests with coverage, on the host. -count=1 because without it an
+# unchanged package is served from Go's test result cache, and a
+# coverage profile assembled from cached results describes a run that
+# did not happen.
 test-coverage:
-	go test -v -coverprofile=coverage.out ./...
+	go test -v -count=1 -coverprofile=coverage.out ./...
 	go tool cover -html=coverage.out -o coverage.html
 
-# Run integration tests
+local:
-test-integration:
+	VAULTIK_CONFIG=$(HOME)/etc/vaultik/config.yml ./vaultik snapshot --debug list 2>&1
-	go test -v -tags=integration ./...
+	VAULTIK_CONFIG=$(HOME)/etc/vaultik/config.yml ./vaultik snapshot --debug create 2>&1
+
+install: vaultik
+	cp ./vaultik $(HOME)/bin/
+
+# Build and publish release artifacts (linux/darwin × amd64/arm64) via goreleaser.
+release:
+	@script/release
+
+# Dry-run a release build without publishing or tagging.
+release-snapshot:
+	@script/release-snapshot
+
+# Build Docker image.
+docker:
+	@script/docker
+
+# Install pre-commit hook.
+hooks:
+	@script/install-precommit

REPO_POLICIES.md

@@ -0,0 +1,679 @@
+---
+title: Repository Policies
+last_modified: 2026-10-04
+---
+
+This document covers repository structure, tooling, and workflow standards. Code
+style conventions are in separate documents:
+
+- [Code Styleguide](https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/prompts/raw/branch/main/prompts/CODE_STYLEGUIDE.md)
+  (general, bash, Docker)
+- [Go](https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/prompts/raw/branch/main/prompts/CODE_STYLEGUIDE_GO.md)
+- [JavaScript](https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/prompts/raw/branch/main/prompts/CODE_STYLEGUIDE_JS.md)
+- [Python](https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/prompts/raw/branch/main/prompts/CODE_STYLEGUIDE_PYTHON.md)
+- [Go HTTP Server Conventions](https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/prompts/raw/branch/main/prompts/GO_HTTP_SERVER_CONVENTIONS.md)
+
+---
+
+- Cross-project documentation (such as this file) must include
+  `last_modified: YYYY-MM-DD` in the YAML front matter so it can be kept in sync
+  with the authoritative source as policies evolve.
+
+- **ALL external references must be pinned by cryptographic hash.** This
+  includes Docker base images, Go modules, npm packages, GitHub Actions, and
+  anything else fetched from a remote source. Version tags (`@v4`, `@latest`,
+  `:3.21`, etc.) are server-mutable and therefore remote code execution
+  vulnerabilities. The ONLY acceptable way to reference an external dependency
+  is by its content hash (Docker `@sha256:...`, Go module hash in `go.sum`, npm
+  integrity hash in lockfile, GitHub Actions `@<commit-sha>`). No exceptions.
+  This also means never `curl | bash` to install tools like pyenv, nvm, rustup,
+  etc. Instead, download a specific release archive from GitHub, verify its hash
+  (hardcoded in the Dockerfile or script), and only then install. Unverified
+  install scripts are arbitrary remote code execution. This is the single most
+  important rule in this document. Double-check every external reference in
+  every file before committing. There are zero exceptions to this rule.
+
+- Every repo with software must have a root `Makefile` with these targets:
+  `make bootstrap`, `make setup`, `make test`, `make lint`, `make fmt` (writes),
+  `make fmt-check` (read-only), `make check` (runs `test`, `lint`, `fmt-check`),
+  `make docker`, and `make hooks` (installs pre-commit hook). A model Makefile
+  is at `https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/prompts/raw/branch/main/Makefile`.
+
+- Repos follow the
+  [Scripts to Rule Them All](https://github.com/github/scripts-to-rule-them-all)
+  pattern: the implementation of each Makefile target lives in an executable
+  script in `script/` (`script/bootstrap`, `script/setup`, `script/test`,
+  `script/lint`, `script/fmt`, `script/fmt-check`, `script/check`,
+  `script/docker`), and the Makefile targets are thin shims that call them. The
+  scripts must be POSIX sh (`#!/bin/sh`, `set -eu`, no bashisms) so they run in
+  minimal containers (e.g. alpine images have no bash); locate the repo root
+  with `$(cd "$(dirname "$0")/.." && pwd -P)` and `cd` there before acting. From
+  the standard's canonical set we use `bootstrap`, `setup` (make the repo ready
+  for development after a fresh clone: runs `bootstrap`, then
+  `install-precommit`, plus any repo-specific initialization), `test`, and
+  `cibuild`. `script/bootstrap` installs all dependencies idempotently and
+  assumes nothing is present: base tools come from nix, apt, brew, or apk
+  (detected in that order; apt runs noninteractive). For node it uses the
+  installed node if present; otherwise it installs a PINNED node version via
+  nvm, first installing nvm itself if missing — from a hash-verified GitHub
+  release archive (never `curl | sh`), with bash installed as an explicit
+  prerequisite since nvm requires bash. yarn is then pinned via
+  `corepack prepare yarn@<version> --activate`. Never install "latest" or "lts";
+  always exact versions. `script/cibuild` runs the CI build: it changes to the
+  repo root, runs `script/bootstrap`, runs `script/check`, and builds the image
+  with the version; the Gitea workflow calls it. **`script/cibuild` runs
+  `script/bootstrap` first**, because the workflow checks out the repo and runs
+  nothing else, while `script/fmt-check` runs the formatter on the host: on a
+  pristine checkout with nothing installed the run dies there, after the
+  containerised gates have passed. **The bootstrap alone is not enough**:
+  `script/bootstrap` installs node and yarn under nvm and leaves neither on the
+  `PATH` of the shell that called it, so a bare `yarn` still exits 127. The host
+  entrypoints that need yarn — `script/fmt` and `script/fmt-check` — therefore
+  source nvm for the pinned node version before invoking it, exactly as
+  `script/bootstrap`'s own install step does. A runner carrying nothing but
+  docker and git then gets through `script/check`. Four further scripts are our
+  own extensions to the standard: `script/check` runs `script/test`,
+  `script/lint` and `script/fmt-check`; `script/precommit` is what the git
+  pre-commit hook runs, and it calls `script/check`; `script/install-precommit`
+  installs the git pre-commit hook (the `make hooks` target shims to it); and
+  `script/projectname` (literally that filename) simply outputs the project's
+  name. Scripts that need the name call `script/projectname` — e.g.
+  `script/docker` assembles its image tag from it — so those scripts stay
+  byte-identical across all repos. Repo-type-specific pre-commit extras (e.g.
+  `go mod tidy` verification in Go repos) belong in `script/precommit`, not in
+  the hook itself. Model scripts are at
+  `https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/prompts/raw/branch/main/script/<name>`. The README
+  must document the provided scripts in an **Entrypoints** section (see the
+  README requirements below).
+
+- Always use Makefile targets (`make fmt`, `make test`, `make lint`, etc.)
+  instead of invoking the underlying tools directly. The Makefile is the single
+  source of truth for how these operations are run.
+
+- The Makefile is authoritative documentation for how the repo is used. Beyond
+  the required targets above, it should have targets for every common operation:
+  running a local development server (`make run`, `make dev`), re-initializing
+  or migrating the database (`make db-reset`, `make migrate`), building
+  artifacts (`make build`), generating code, seeding data, or anything else a
+  developer would do regularly. If someone checks out the repo and types
+  `make<tab>`, they should see every meaningful operation available. A new
+  contributor should be able to understand the entire development workflow by
+  reading the Makefile.
+
+- Every repo should have a `Dockerfile`, and it carries the repo's gates: a
+  `lint` phase and a `test` phase, with the final stage depending on both so the
+  image cannot be built unless they pass. For non-server repos the final stage
+  brings up a development environment; for server repos it is the runtime image.
+  The gate phases and the build stage start from their pinned base images and
+  install what those images lack either inline, as the canonical Go `Dockerfile`
+  below does for `git`, or by running `script/bootstrap`, as the `prompts`
+  repo's own `Dockerfile` does for its yarn packages. The development
+  environment stage installs development prerequisites by running
+  `script/bootstrap` rather than duplicating its installs inline. A stage that
+  runs `script/bootstrap` COPYs `script/` and the dependency manifests
+  (`package.json` + `yarn.lock`, `go.mod` + `go.sum`, etc.) before running it.
+
+- **Linting and testing run in Docker, as phases of the `Dockerfile`.** There is
+  no separate lint file. `script/lint` and `script/test` each build one phase
+  and nothing else:
+
+    ```sh
+    docker build --no-cache --target lint -t "$(script/projectname)-lint" .
+    docker build --no-cache --target test -t "$(script/projectname)-test" .
+    ```
+
+    **A stage that is not the last one in the file is built only when the final
+    stage's chain depends on it, or when `--target` names it.** That is why the
+    two gates are always invoked by name here, and why the final stage carries a
+    `COPY --from=` of a harmless file from each of them: without that edge a
+    plain `docker build .` builds the last stage alone and exits 0 having linted
+    and tested nothing.
+
+    **Every `docker build` in `script/` is tagged**, here and in
+    `script/cibuild` and `script/docker`. An untagged build leaves a dangling
+    image behind on every invocation, on every developer host and every CI
+    runner; a tagged one replaces the previous image.
+
+    Inside a phase the tool is invoked directly — `golangci-lint`, `go test`,
+    `eslint`, `prettier` — never through `make lint` or `script/test`, which are
+    themselves a `docker build` and would recurse into a daemon that does not
+    exist in a build step. Formatting is the exception and stays on the host:
+    `script/fmt` writes the working tree, and `script/fmt-check` is its
+    read-only twin.
+
+    **No lint verdict may come from a host invocation of the linter.** On a
+    shared host golangci-lint reads a result cache keyed on file content rather
+    than location, so a second checkout of the same content is served the first
+    one's findings, and a host-global lock in `$TMPDIR` makes concurrent runs
+    exit non-zero with `parallel golangci-lint is running` — a status a caller
+    cannot tell from real findings. Both have produced wrong verdicts in this
+    org, in both directions. A container has its own cache, its own `TMPDIR` and
+    a digest-pinned binary, so neither is reachable.
+
+- **Any build that runs checks is built with `--no-cache`.** Docker invalidates
+  a `COPY` layer only when the copied content changes, so on an unchanged tree
+  the check `RUN` is served from cache, nothing executes, and the build still
+  exits 0. Every `docker build` in `script/` therefore passes `--no-cache`:
+  `script/lint`, `script/test`, `script/cibuild` and `script/docker` are the
+  four, and there is no fifth — `script/check` runs the two gate phases and
+  `script/fmt-check`, and builds no image of its own. A bare `docker build .` is
+  not evidence that anything ran: a sub-second build reporting success is a
+  cache hit, not a result. Never invalidate by pruning — `docker builder prune`
+  and friends destroy a build cache shared with every other build on the host.
+  When a check is added or changed, prove it works by planting a defect it must
+  catch and watching the run fail on it, then revert the defect. A green run
+  alone shows neither that the check ran nor that it covers what it should.
+
+- **The gate phases are separate stages, and the build stage depends on both.**
+  The lint phase is based on the `golangci/golangci-lint` image (pinned by
+  hash), so lint failures surface in seconds rather than after a full compile,
+  and the test phase is based on the Debian Go image. The canonical Go repo
+  `Dockerfile`:
+
+    ```dockerfile
+    # Lint phase
+    # golangci/golangci-lint:v2.x.x, YYYY-MM-DD
+    FROM golangci/golangci-lint@sha256:... AS lint
+    WORKDIR /src
+    COPY go.mod go.sum ./
+    RUN go mod download
+    COPY . .
+    RUN golangci-lint run --config .golangci.yml ./...
+
+    # Test phase. -race needs cgo and so a C compiler, which the Debian Go
+    # image ships and the alpine one does not.
+    # golang:1.x, YYYY-MM-DD
+    FROM golang@sha256:... AS test
+    WORKDIR /src
+    COPY go.mod go.sum ./
+    RUN go mod download
+    COPY . .
+    RUN go test -timeout 90s -race -cover ./... || \
+        { echo "--- Rerunning with -v for details ---"; \
+          go test -timeout 90s -race -v ./...; exit 1; }
+
+    # Build stage. Nothing is wanted from either phase above; the copies
+    # are what make BuildKit build them first, so this stage cannot run
+    # unless lint and test passed.
+    # golang:1.x-alpine, YYYY-MM-DD
+    FROM golang@sha256:... AS builder
+    COPY --from=lint /src/go.sum /dev/null
+    COPY --from=test /src/go.sum /dev/null
+    RUN apk add --no-cache git
+    # A tar-stream context keeps the sender's file owners, which git refuses.
+    RUN git config --system --add safe.directory /src
+    WORKDIR /src
+    COPY go.mod go.sum ./
+    RUN go mod download
+    COPY . .
+
+    # The VERSION build arg when one is given, otherwise
+    # `git describe --tags --always` on the .git in the build context. With
+    # .git present, a version that is still empty, dev or unknown fails the
+    # build: git is missing or could not read the checkout.
+    ARG VERSION
+    RUN VERSION="${VERSION:-$(git describe --tags --always)}"; \
+        if [ -e .git ]; then \
+            case "$VERSION" in ""|dev|unknown) \
+                echo "version is '$VERSION' although .git is present" >&2; \
+                exit 1 ;; \
+            esac; \
+        fi; \
+        CGO_ENABLED=0 go build -trimpath \
+            -ldflags="-s -w -X main.Version=${VERSION}" \
+            -o /app ./cmd/app/
+
+    # Runtime stage, and the last one
+    FROM alpine@sha256:...
+    COPY --from=builder /app /usr/local/bin/app
+    ENTRYPOINT ["app"]
+    ```
+
+    Key points:
+    - The lint phase uses the `golangci/golangci-lint` image directly (it has
+      both Go and the linter), so nothing needs installing.
+    - `COPY --from=<phase> /src/go.sum /dev/null` is a no-op copy whose only
+      purpose is the ordering edge. BuildKit runs stages in parallel by default,
+      and a stage nothing depends on is not built at all, so without these two
+      lines a red gate would not fail the build.
+    - Keep the runtime stage last, and if you add a stage after it, give it the
+      same two copies. A plain `docker build .` builds the last stage's chain
+      and nothing else.
+    - If the project uses `//go:embed` directives that reference build artifacts
+      (e.g. a web frontend compiled in a separate stage), the lint phase must
+      create placeholder files so the embed directives resolve. Example:
+      `RUN mkdir -p web/dist && touch web/dist/index.html web/dist/style.css`.
+    - If the project requires CGO or system libraries for linting, install them
+      in the lint phase. The `golangci/golangci-lint` image is Debian-based and
+      has no `apk`, so install with `apt-get` under the Debian package name
+      (`libvips-dev`, where alpine says `vips-dev`), and delete the package
+      lists in the same `RUN`, so the layer does not keep them:
+
+        ```dockerfile
+        RUN apt-get update \
+            && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends libvips-dev \
+            && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+        ```
+
+    - `.dockerignore` lets `.git` into the build context. It keeps out every git
+      `config` at any depth (`**/.git/config`, `**/.git/modules/**/config`): the
+      repository's own, each submodule's under `.git/modules/`, and that of a
+      submodule keeping its own `.git` directory. `git describe` does not need
+      them, and each can hold a credential: a password in a remote URL, or the
+      token the CI checkout step stores there. A submodule whose name has a
+      `config` segment (`config`, `deploy/config`, `config/lib`) loses its whole
+      git directory to `**/.git/modules/**/config`, and Go's version stamping
+      then fails the build: give it a name without that segment
+      (`git submodule add --name`). The stage that compiles has `git` (the
+      Debian Go image has it; an alpine one needs `apk add --no-cache git`) and
+      takes the version from the `VERSION` build argument when one is given,
+      otherwise from `git describe --tags --always`. That gives the tag on a
+      tagged commit; on a later commit, the tag, the number of commits since it
+      and the short commit (`v1.2.3-4-gabc1234`); and the short commit when no
+      tag is reachable. The stage that compiles also marks its working directory
+      safe for git (`git config --system --add safe.directory /src`): a context
+      sent as a tar stream keeps the sender's file owners, and git refuses a
+      checkout owned by another user, so the version would come out empty.
+      `ARG VERSION` has no default, and the build fails if the context carries
+      `.git` and the version still comes out empty, `dev` or `unknown`. A plain
+      `docker build .` with no build arguments must succeed; a Dockerfile that
+      refuses an empty build argument drops that refusal and keeps the argument.
+
+- Every repo should have a Gitea Actions workflow (`.gitea/workflows/`) that
+  runs `script/cibuild` on push, and checks out the repo as its only other step.
+  That script bootstraps, runs the gate phases, and then builds the image, so a
+  successful run means every check passed; a bare `docker build .` does not
+  carry the same guarantee, because its gate phases may come from the cache. The
+  image build is uncached and so runs the gate phases a second time. That is the
+  price of the rule above, and it is worth paying: the image that ships is built
+  from a run of its own gates rather than from a cache entry. A separate
+  workflow limited to `main` by a `branches` list under `on: push` cannot be
+  checked by review: to try a change to it, add the feature branch to that list
+  and push, then remove the branch from the list again before merging. Keep any
+  job in it that publishes behind `if: github.ref_name == 'main'`, so the run
+  from the feature branch publishes nothing.
+
+- Use platform-standard formatters: `black` for Python, `prettier` for
+  JS/CSS/Markdown/HTML, `go fmt` for Go. Always use default configuration with
+  two exceptions: four-space indents (except Go), and `proseWrap: always` for
+  Markdown (hard-wrap at 80 columns). Documentation and writing repos (Markdown,
+  HTML, CSS) should also have `.prettierrc` and `.prettierignore`.
+
+- Pre-commit hook: runs `script/precommit`, which calls `script/check`. If local
+  testing is not possible in the repo, `script/precommit` may skip `script/test`
+  and run only `script/lint` and `script/fmt-check`. The hook is installed by
+  `script/install-precommit`; the Makefile must provide a `make hooks` target
+  that shims to it.
+
+- All repos with software must have tests that run via the platform-standard
+  test framework (`go test`, `pytest`, `jest`/`vitest`, etc.). If no meaningful
+  tests exist yet, add the most minimal test possible — e.g. importing the
+  module under test to verify it compiles/parses. There is no excuse for
+  `make test` to be a no-op.
+
+- `make test` must complete in under 60 seconds. That is the hard cap, and a
+  suite that exceeds it fails. Under 20 seconds is the target. A suite between
+  20 and 60 seconds is still green, but the overage must be filed as an
+  improvement bug against that repo. Add a 90-second timeout to the test
+  invocation (`go test -timeout 90s`). The backstop deliberately sits above the
+  hard cap so that it catches a genuinely hung test rather than a merely slow
+  one.
+
+- **The test command should use the conditional verbose rerun pattern.** Run
+  tests without `-v` (verbose) first. If tests fail, automatically rerun with
+  `-v` to show full output. This keeps CI logs and `docker build` output clean
+  on success (just package/suite summaries) while providing full diagnostic
+  detail on failure (every test case, every assertion). The command lives in the
+  `test` phase of the `Dockerfile`, since `script/test` builds that phase; the
+  Makefile form below is the same pattern for any repo-local invocation:
+
+    ```makefile
+    test:
+    	@<test-command> || \
+    		{ echo "--- Rerunning with -v for details ---"; \
+    		  <test-command-with-v>; exit 1; }
+    ```
+
+    Go example:
+
+    ```makefile
+    test:
+    	@go test -count=1 -timeout 90s -race -cover ./... || \
+    		{ echo "--- Rerunning with -v for details ---"; \
+    		  go test -count=1 -timeout 90s -race -v ./...; exit 1; }
+    ```
+
+    `-count=1` is required on both invocations: it defeats Go's test _result_
+    cache, so neither run can report a stored pass in place of running the
+    tests. It leaves the build cache alone, so it costs the runtime of the suite
+    and no recompilation.
+
+    That cache is Go's own, separate from Docker's layer cache. Go stores a
+    passing result in its cache directory (`GOCACHE`), and when the same tests
+    run again on unchanged code it prints that result, marked `(cached)`,
+    without running them. That matters on a developer's machine, where this
+    target runs and the directory lasts from one run to the next. The `test`
+    phase of the `Dockerfile` needs no `-count=1`: its base image holds no
+    result for this repo's tests and nothing before its `go test` step runs a
+    test, so there is nothing to replay. `--no-cache` (above) is what makes that
+    step run on an unchanged tree.
+
+    Python example:
+
+    ```makefile
+    test:
+    	@python -m pytest || \
+    		{ echo "--- Rerunning with -v for details ---"; \
+    		  python -m pytest -v; exit 1; }
+    ```
+
+    The `exit 1` ensures the target always fails after a rerun — the first run
+    already proved the tests are broken, so the build must not pass even if a
+    flaky test happens to succeed on the second attempt. The rerun exists solely
+    for diagnostic output.
+
+- Docker builds must complete in under 5 minutes.
+
+- `make check` must not modify any files in the repo. Tests may use temporary
+  directories.
+
+- `main` must always pass `make check`, no exceptions.
+
+- Never commit secrets. `.env` files, credentials, API keys, and private keys
+  must be in `.gitignore`. No exceptions.
+
+- `.gitignore` should be comprehensive from the start: OS files (`.DS_Store`),
+  editor files (`.swp`, `*~`), in-repo agent scratch directories (`.claude/`),
+  language build artifacts, and `node_modules/`. Fetch the standard `.gitignore`
+  from `https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/prompts/raw/branch/main/.gitignore` when
+  setting up a new repo. These patterns are written to `.gitignore`'s own
+  semantics, in which an unanchored pattern already matches at every depth; they
+  are not a `.dockerignore` and must not be transplanted into one unmodified.
+
+- **`.dockerignore` does not use `.gitignore` semantics, and copying patterns
+  across unmodified leaves secrets in the build context.** Docker matches with
+  `moby/patternmatcher`: `filepath.Match` semantics plus a `**` extension, so
+  `*` does not cross `/` and a pattern without a leading `**/` is anchored at
+  the build-context root. A `.dockerignore` listing `.env`, `*.pem` and `*.key`
+  therefore excludes only the copies at the repository root, while `config/.env`
+  and `certs/server.key` still reach the context and can land in an image layer
+  — which is more dangerous than a short file with no secret patterns at all,
+  because it reads as solved and stops anyone looking. Give every
+  depth-independent pattern the `**/` prefix and leave only genuinely
+  root-anchored entries unprefixed: `.claude`, and the repo's own host-built
+  binary, written `/myapp` and never `**/myapp`, which would also match
+  `cmd/myapp/` and delete the package directory from the context. Matching is
+  case-sensitive, and an ALL-CAPS twin per pattern still misses `Server.Key`, so
+  secret names use character ranges — `**/*.[kK][eE][yY]`, `**/*.[pP][eE][mM]`,
+  and likewise for `.envrc` and the extensionless SSH keys. Where such a pattern
+  also catches something the build needs, re-include it with a negation
+  (`!docs/example.env`); deleting the pattern reopens the exposure for every
+  other file it covers. Fetch the standard `.dockerignore` from
+  `https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/prompts/raw/branch/main/.dockerignore` and extend
+  it with the repo's own artifacts.
+
+- **In-repo agent scratch belongs in both files, written to each file's own
+  semantics.** `.claude/` holds one worktree per in-flight agent — an entire
+  additional checkout of the repo — so under `COPY . .` the build context
+  inflates by a multiple of the repo and another session's unreviewed work can
+  be copied into an image layer. In `.gitignore` the entry is `.claude/`,
+  unanchored. In `.dockerignore` it is `.claude`, anchored and with **no** `**/`
+  prefix, because the prefixed form would also delete any nested directory of
+  that name from the build. Anchoring carries a known gap that the canonical
+  `.dockerignore` states in its own comment, since consuming repos receive the
+  file and not the tracker: the directory is created in the agent's working
+  directory, so a repo running agents in subdirectories still ships
+  `services/api/.claude/` and must add its own anchored entry there.
+
+- **A plain `docker build .` of a clone stamps the version that
+  `git describe --tags --always` gives**, derived from the `.git` in the build
+  context as the canonical `Dockerfile` above shows. Without its failure check,
+  a missing `git` or an unreadable checkout would leave `-X main.Version=` empty
+  and the build would still exit 0. `script/docker` and `script/cibuild` pass
+  the version they compute on the host; it takes precedence. They do this
+  byte-identically across repos:
+
+    ```sh
+    # Own line: a failing command substitution inside an argument does not
+    # trip `set -e`, so the inline form degrades to an empty constant.
+    version="$(git describe --tags --always --dirty 2>/dev/null || true)"
+    [ -n "$version" ] || version="unknown"
+    docker build --no-cache \
+        --build-arg VERSION="$version" \
+        -t "$(script/projectname)" .
+    ```
+
+    `--always` makes an untagged repo yield an abbreviated commit hash rather
+    than failing, and the `[ -n "$version" ]` line is the single place the
+    fallback is applied — a live check that fires on a build from an export with
+    no `.git` and on a repository with no commits yet. Do not fold it into the
+    substitution as `|| echo unknown`, which makes the guard unreachable. The
+    Dockerfile's side is `ARG VERSION` in the stage that compiles, declared
+    there because `ARG` is stage-scoped; passing `VERSION` to a repo whose
+    Dockerfile declares no such `ARG` is ignored and costs nothing, which is why
+    the scripts stay byte-identical. One consequence for CI: the standard
+    checkout action clones shallow and fetches no tags, so a repo that embeds a
+    tag-derived version must set `fetch-depth: 0` on its checkout step.
+
+- **Verify `.dockerignore` by enumerating the image, not by reading the
+  patterns.** Plant files at the root _and_ at least two directories deep, build
+  a probe image that does `COPY . .`, and list what actually landed
+  (`docker run --rm --entrypoint find IMAGE /app`). The `transferring context`
+  size is not a substitute: a nested secret is a few bytes, and BuildKit
+  transfers only the delta from the previous build.
+
+- **No build artifacts in version control.** Code-derived data (compiled
+  bundles, minified output, generated assets) must never be committed to the
+  repository if it can be avoided. The build process (e.g. Dockerfile, Makefile)
+  should generate these at build time. Notable exception: Go protobuf generated
+  files (`.pb.go`) ARE committed because repos need to work with `go get`, which
+  downloads code but does not execute code generation.
+
+- Never use `git add -A` or `git add .`. Always stage files explicitly by name.
+
+- Never force-push to `main`.
+
+- Make all changes on a feature branch. You can do whatever you want on a
+  feature branch.
+
+- `.golangci.yml` is standardized. The vendored copy in a consuming repo must
+  _NEVER_ be modified by an agent: fetch it from
+  `https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/prompts/raw/branch/main/.golangci.yml` and keep it
+  byte-identical, so that no repo can quietly loosen its own linting. Linter
+  configuration changes are made to the canonical copy in the `prompts` repo and
+  reach consuming repos by re-vendoring; an agent may open a PR against
+  canonical, which only the user merges. One list is exempt from byte-identity,
+  because it cannot be written once for every repo: the `deny` list of the
+  `test-support` depguard rule, where a repo names its own test-support packages
+  by full import path. A repo adds entries there and changes nothing else, and a
+  re-vendor carries its entries forward. The canonical golangci-lint version is
+  v2.14.0 (released 2026-09-24), pinned as the digest of the lint phase's base
+  image
+  (`golangci/golangci-lint@sha256:ad862ba6b3798cbe0fd9fd7408d498fd74fbd2623a92406b2fd3898faf0bf98f`,
+  which reports `2.14.0 built with go1.27.0 from 114493f9`). A module's `go`
+  directive must not name a newer Go minor version than the one golangci-lint
+  was built with, or golangci-lint refuses to lint it: this release lints
+  `go 1.27.1` but not `go 1.28`. That digest is the only pin, since no repo
+  installs golangci-lint on the host. A repo sets the lint phase digest to the
+  one named here and re-vendors `.golangci.yml` in the same commit, whichever of
+  the two prompted the change: the canonical copy can name linters that an older
+  golangci-lint rejects, and a newer golangci-lint can add linters that
+  `default: all` switches on until the canonical copy disables them.
+
+- **`script/bootstrap` installs a pinned tool by comparing versions, never by
+  testing presence.** An `if ! command -v <tool>; then install; fi` guard tests
+  `PATH` only, so on an already-provisioned machine the pin is inert and a
+  version bump is a silent no-op — while the Dockerfile, installing into a clean
+  image, gets the pinned version, so a local `make check` and `make docker` can
+  disagree about what the tool even is. The canonical form:
+    - compares the installed version against the pin over the **whole** version
+      token; a parser that stops at the first `-` reports `2.12.2` for a host
+      running `2.12.2-rc1` and skips the install;
+    - treats absent, non-zero, empty or unrecognised `--version` output as a
+      mismatch, so the failure direction is a redundant install and never a
+      skipped one;
+    - after installing, re-resolves the binary the way callers do — `hash -r`,
+      then through `PATH`, not through the directory the installer wrote to —
+      and fails naming the resolved path, since an install that a shadowing
+      binary hides succeeds while changing nothing any caller sees;
+    - is actually called, and prints the version on both success paths: a
+      function defined and never invoked has the same exit status and the same
+      empty output as one that worked.
+
+    Keep it POSIX sh: no arrays, no `[[`, no `grep -P`.
+
+    A Go tool a repo needs on the host is installed with `go install` pinned to
+    a commit hash (`go install <package>@<commit hash>`). It is never tracked as
+    a `go.mod` tool dependency or through a `tools.go` file, either of which
+    pulls the tool's own dependencies into the repo's `go.mod` and `go.sum`.
+
+- When pinning images or packages by hash, add a comment above the reference
+  with the version and date (YYYY-MM-DD).
+
+- Use `yarn`, not `npm`.
+
+- Write all dates as YYYY-MM-DD (ISO 8601).
+
+- Simple projects should be configured with environment variables.
+
+- Dockerized web services listen on port 8080 by default, overridable with
+  `PORT`.
+
+- **HTTP/web services must be hardened for production internet exposure before
+  tagging 1.0.** This means full compliance with security best practices
+  including, without limitation, all of the following:
+    - **Security headers** on every response:
+        - `Strict-Transport-Security` (HSTS) with `max-age` of at least one year
+          and `includeSubDomains`.
+        - `Content-Security-Policy` (CSP) with a restrictive default policy
+          (`default-src 'self'` as a baseline, tightened per-resource as
+          needed). Never use `unsafe-inline` or `unsafe-eval` unless
+          unavoidable, and document the reason.
+        - `X-Frame-Options: DENY` (or `SAMEORIGIN` if framing is required).
+          Prefer the `frame-ancestors` CSP directive as the primary control.
+        - `X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff`.
+        - `Referrer-Policy: strict-origin-when-cross-origin` (or stricter).
+        - `Permissions-Policy` restricting access to browser features the
+          application does not use (camera, microphone, geolocation, etc.).
+    - **Request and response limits:**
+        - Maximum request body size enforced on all endpoints (e.g. Go
+          `http.MaxBytesReader`). Choose a sane default per-route; never accept
+          unbounded input.
+        - Maximum response body size where applicable (e.g. paginated APIs).
+        - `ReadTimeout` and `ReadHeaderTimeout` on the `http.Server` to defend
+          against slowloris attacks.
+        - `WriteTimeout` on the `http.Server`.
+        - `IdleTimeout` on the `http.Server`.
+        - Per-handler execution time limits via `context.WithTimeout` or
+          chi/stdlib `middleware.Timeout`.
+    - **Authentication and session security:**
+        - Rate limiting on password-based authentication endpoints. API keys are
+          high-entropy and not susceptible to brute force, so they are exempt.
+        - CSRF tokens on all state-mutating HTML forms. API endpoints
+          authenticated via `Authorization` header (Bearer token, API key) are
+          exempt because the browser does not attach these automatically.
+        - Passwords stored using bcrypt, scrypt, or argon2 — never plain-text,
+          MD5, or SHA.
+        - Session cookies set with `HttpOnly`, `Secure`, and `SameSite=Lax` (or
+          `Strict`) attributes.
+    - **Reverse proxy awareness:**
+        - True client IP detection when behind a reverse proxy
+          (`X-Forwarded-For`, `X-Real-IP`). The application must accept
+          forwarded headers only from a configured set of trusted proxy
+          addresses — never trust `X-Forwarded-For` unconditionally.
+    - **CORS:**
+        - Authenticated endpoints must restrict `Access-Control-Allow-Origin` to
+          an explicit allowlist of known origins. Wildcard (`*`) is acceptable
+          only for public, unauthenticated read-only APIs.
+    - **Error handling:**
+        - Internal errors must never leak stack traces, SQL queries, file paths,
+          or other implementation details to the client. Return generic error
+          messages in production; detailed errors only when `DEBUG` is enabled.
+    - **TLS:**
+        - Services never terminate TLS directly. They are always deployed behind
+          a TLS-terminating reverse proxy. The service itself listens on plain
+          HTTP. However, HSTS headers and `Secure` cookie flags must still be
+          set by the application so that the browser enforces HTTPS end-to-end.
+
+    This list is non-exhaustive. Apply defense-in-depth: if a standard security
+    hardening measure exists for HTTP services and is not listed here, it is
+    still expected. When in doubt, harden.
+
+- `README.md` is the primary documentation. Required sections:
+    - **Description**: First line must include the project name, purpose,
+      category (web server, SPA, CLI tool, etc.), license, and author. Example:
+      "µPaaS is an MIT-licensed Go web application by @sneak that receives
+      git-frontend webhooks and deploys applications via Docker in realtime."
+    - **Getting Started**: Copy-pasteable install/usage code block.
+    - **Entrypoints**: Opens by stating that the repo adheres to the
+      [Scripts to Rule Them All](https://github.com/github/scripts-to-rule-them-all)
+      standard (with that link), then documents each provided `script/`
+      entrypoint and its purpose.
+    - **Rationale**: Why does this exist?
+    - **Design**: How is the program structured?
+    - **TODO**: Update meticulously, even between commits. When planning, put
+      the todo list in the README so a new agent can pick up where the last one
+      left off.
+    - **License**: MIT, GPL, or WTFPL. Ask the user for new projects. Include a
+      `LICENSE` file in the repo root and a License section in the README.
+    - **Author**: [@sneak](https://sneak.berlin).
+
+- First commit of a new repo should contain only `README.md`.
+
+- Go module root: `sneak.berlin/go/<name>`. Always run `go mod tidy` before
+  committing.
+
+- Use SemVer.
+
+- Database migrations live in `internal/db/migrations/` and must be embedded in
+  the binary.
+    - `000_migration.sql` — contains ONLY the creation of the migrations
+      tracking table itself. Nothing else.
+    - `001_schema.sql` — the full application schema.
+    - **Pre-1.0.0:** never add additional migration files (002, 003, etc.).
+      There is no installed base to migrate. Edit `001_schema.sql` directly.
+    - **Post-1.0.0:** add new numbered migration files for each schema change.
+      Never edit existing migrations after release.
+
+- All repos should have an `.editorconfig` enforcing the project's indentation
+  settings.
+
+- Avoid putting files in the repo root unless necessary. Root should contain
+  only project-level config files (`README.md`, `AGENTS.md`, `Makefile`,
+  `Dockerfile`, `LICENSE`, `.gitignore`, `.editorconfig`, `REPO_POLICIES.md`,
+  and language-specific config). Everything else goes in a subdirectory.
+  Canonical subdirectory names:
+    - `bin/` — executable scripts and tools
+    - `cmd/` — Go command entrypoints; thin only: one `main.go` per binary whose
+      body is a single call into `internal/` or `pkg/`, no project logic in
+      `cmd/`
+    - `configs/` — configuration templates and examples
+    - `deploy/` — deployment manifests (k8s, compose, terraform)
+    - `docs/` — documentation and markdown (README.md stays in root)
+    - `internal/` — Go internal packages
+    - `internal/db/migrations/` — database migrations
+    - `pkg/` — Go library packages
+    - `share/` — systemd units, data files
+    - `static/` — static assets (images, fonts, etc.)
+    - `web/` — web frontend source
+
+- When setting up a new repo, files from the `prompts` repo may be used as
+  templates. Fetch them from
+  `https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/prompts/raw/branch/main/<path>`.
+
+- New repos must contain at minimum:
+    - `README.md`, `.git`, `.gitignore`, `.editorconfig`
+    - `LICENSE`, `REPO_POLICIES.md` (copy from the `prompts` repo)
+    - `Makefile`
+    - `script/` entrypoints (`bootstrap`, `setup`, `projectname`, `test`,
+      `lint`, `fmt`, `fmt-check`, `check`, `docker`, `cibuild`, `precommit`,
+      `install-precommit`)
+    - `Dockerfile`, `.dockerignore`
+    - `.gitea/workflows/check.yml`
+    - Go: `go.mod`, `go.sum`, `.golangci.yml`
+    - JS: `package.json`, `yarn.lock`, `.prettierrc`, `.prettierignore`
+    - Python: `pyproject.toml`
+
+- Guidance for coding agents lives in one `AGENTS.md` at the repository root. It
+  is never committed under a file or directory named after one agent tool, such
+  as `CLAUDE.md` or `.claude/`, and never split into separate memory files.

cmd/vaultik/dockermoddownload_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+package main_test
+
+import (
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+)
+
+// TestDockerfileBoundsEveryModuleDownload fails unless every
+// `go mod download` in the Dockerfile runs under a time limit, is tried
+// a fixed number of times, and then fails the build with a message that
+// names the module download (issue #351). Like the version tests, this
+// parses the Dockerfile; that a stalled download really is cut off and
+// retried was checked by hand.
+func TestDockerfileBoundsEveryModuleDownload(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	var downloads []string
+
+	for _, instruction := range instructions(t, productDockerfile) {
+		if strings.Contains(instruction, "go mod download") {
+			downloads = append(downloads, instruction)
+		}
+	}
+
+	require.NotEmpty(t, downloads, "%s must download modules",
+		productDockerfile)
+
+	for _, download := range downloads {
+		assert.Contains(t, download, "timeout 300 go mod download",
+			"%s: a module download must have a time limit: %s",
+			productDockerfile, download)
+		assert.Contains(t, download, "for attempt in 1 2 3",
+			"%s: a module download must be retried: %s",
+			productDockerfile, download)
+		assert.Contains(t, download, "module download failed",
+			"%s: a module download that never succeeds must say so: %s",
+			productDockerfile, download)
+		assert.True(t, strings.HasSuffix(download, "exit 1"),
+			"%s: a module download that never succeeds must fail the"+
+				" build: %s", productDockerfile, download)
+	}
+}

cmd/vaultik/dockerversion_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,149 @@
+package main_test
+
+import (
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+)
+
+// This file guards the version stamping of the product image (issue
+// #75). The failure it protects against is silent: the image still
+// builds and runs, but `vaultik version` inside it reports "commit:
+// unknown" or a version of "dev", so an operator cannot tell which
+// source produced a given backup. The build takes the version as a
+// build arg, which script/docker computes on the host, and otherwise
+// derives it from the .git in its context; the commit and its date
+// always come from that .git.
+//
+// These are parses of the committed files, because shelling out to
+// docker would nest a build inside `make test`. That `vaultik version`
+// in the built image really prints the host's version is verified by
+// hand.
+
+// The files under guard, relative to the repository root.
+const (
+	productDockerfile = "Dockerfile"
+	dockerScript      = "script/docker"
+)
+
+// TestProductDockerfileTakesVersionAsBuildArg fails unless the build
+// declares ARG VERSION, with no default, and stamps it into the binary
+// whenever it is given, ahead of the value derived in the container.
+func TestProductDockerfileTakesVersionAsBuildArg(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	found := instructions(t, productDockerfile)
+
+	require.Contains(t, found, "ARG VERSION",
+		"%s must declare `ARG VERSION`, with no default, so the host can"+
+			" pass it in", productDockerfile)
+
+	assertLdflagReferences(t, found, "VERSION")
+}
+
+// TestProductDockerfileDerivesVersionFromGit fails unless a build given
+// no VERSION, such as a plain `docker build .` of a clone, takes it from
+// `git describe` of the .git in its context, stamps "dev" when the
+// context has no .git, and fails rather than stamp "dev" when that .git
+// yields no version. The commit and its date come from the same .git,
+// and the build fails rather than stamp them "unknown" when it is
+// present.
+func TestProductDockerfileDerivesVersionFromGit(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	found := instructions(t, productDockerfile)
+
+	buildAt := indexContaining(found, "go build")
+	require.GreaterOrEqual(t, buildAt, 0, "%s must build", productDockerfile)
+
+	assert.Contains(t, found[buildAt], "git describe --tags --always || echo dev",
+		"%s must derive the version from git when no VERSION is given,"+
+			" and stamp dev when the context has no .git", productDockerfile)
+	assert.Contains(t, found[buildAt], "[ -e .git ]",
+		"%s must fail when the context carries .git but yields no version",
+		productDockerfile)
+	assert.Contains(t, found[buildAt], "git rev-parse HEAD",
+		"%s must stamp the commit from git", productDockerfile)
+	assert.Contains(t, found[buildAt], "git show -s --format=%cs HEAD",
+		"%s must stamp the commit date from git", productDockerfile)
+	assert.Contains(t, found[buildAt],
+		`[ "$commit" = unknown ] || [ "$commit_date" = unknown ]`,
+		"%s must fail when the context carries .git but yields no commit"+
+			" or date", productDockerfile)
+}
+
+// TestDockerScriptComputesVersionOnTheHost fails unless script/docker
+// passes the version it derives where .git exists as a build arg.
+func TestDockerScriptComputesVersionOnTheHost(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	script := readRepoFile(t, dockerScript)
+
+	assert.Contains(t, script, "--build-arg VERSION=",
+		"%s must pass --build-arg VERSION to the build", dockerScript)
+}
+
+// assertLdflagReferences fails unless the build instruction uses the
+// named ARG whenever it is given (a ${arg:- reference), so a value
+// passed in is not overridden by one derived inside the container.
+func assertLdflagReferences(t *testing.T, found []string, arg string) {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	for _, instruction := range found {
+		if strings.HasPrefix(instruction, "RUN ") &&
+			strings.Contains(instruction, "go build") &&
+			strings.Contains(instruction, "${"+arg+":-") {
+			return
+		}
+	}
+
+	assert.Fail(t, "version arg is declared but never stamped",
+		"the go build in %s must use ${%s:-...}, or the arg is passed and"+
+			" discarded", productDockerfile, arg)
+}
+
+// instructions returns the Dockerfile's instructions, one per element,
+// with comments and blank lines dropped and continuation lines joined,
+// so a multi-line RUN is one string.
+func instructions(t *testing.T, name string) []string {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	var (
+		out         []string
+		continued   string
+		isContinued bool
+	)
+
+	for line := range strings.SplitSeq(readRepoFile(t, name), "\n") {
+		trimmed := strings.TrimSpace(line)
+		if !isContinued && (trimmed == "" || strings.HasPrefix(trimmed, "#")) {
+			continue
+		}
+
+		isContinued = strings.HasSuffix(trimmed, `\`)
+		continued += strings.TrimSuffix(trimmed, `\`)
+
+		if isContinued {
+			continue
+		}
+
+		out = append(out, strings.Join(strings.Fields(continued), " "))
+		continued = ""
+	}
+
+	return out
+}
+
+// indexContaining returns the position of the first instruction
+// containing want; -1 if there is none.
+func indexContaining(found []string, want string) int {
+	for i, instruction := range found {
+		if strings.Contains(instruction, want) {
+			return i
+		}
+	}
+
+	return -1
+}

cmd/vaultik/main.go

@@ -1,9 +1,60 @@
+// Package main is the vaultik command-line entry point.
 package main
 
 import (
-	"git.eeqj.de/sneak/vaultik/internal/cli"
+	"os"
+	"runtime"
+	"runtime/pprof"
+
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/cli"
 )
 
 func main() {
-	cli.CLIEntry()
+	os.Exit(run())
+}
+
+// run sets up optional profiling, runs the CLI, and returns the process
+// exit code. os.Exit lives in main so it fires only after run's deferred
+// profile writers have flushed. cli.Entry returns a status code rather
+// than calling os.Exit itself: an os.Exit from inside it would skip
+// these defers and truncate the profile of a failing command -- exactly
+// the command one most often wants to profile.
+func run() int {
+	// CPU profiling: set VAULTIK_CPUPROFILE=/path/to/cpu.prof
+	if cpuProfile := os.Getenv("VAULTIK_CPUPROFILE"); cpuProfile != "" {
+		f, err := os.Create(cpuProfile) //nolint:gosec // G304: operator-set path
+		if err != nil {
+			panic("could not create CPU profile: " + err.Error())
+		}
+
+		defer func() { _ = f.Close() }()
+
+		err = pprof.StartCPUProfile(f)
+		if err != nil {
+			panic("could not start CPU profile: " + err.Error())
+		}
+
+		defer pprof.StopCPUProfile()
+	}
+
+	// Memory profiling: set VAULTIK_MEMPROFILE=/path/to/mem.prof
+	if memProfile := os.Getenv("VAULTIK_MEMPROFILE"); memProfile != "" {
+		defer func() {
+			f, err := os.Create(memProfile) //nolint:gosec // G304: operator-set path
+			if err != nil {
+				panic("could not create memory profile: " + err.Error())
+			}
+
+			defer func() { _ = f.Close() }()
+
+			runtime.GC() // get up-to-date statistics
+
+			err = pprof.WriteHeapProfile(f)
+			if err != nil {
+				panic("could not write memory profile: " + err.Error())
+			}
+		}()
+	}
+
+	return cli.Entry()
 }

cmd/vaultik/makefile_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,187 @@
+package main_test
+
+import (
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"regexp"
+	"slices"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+)
+
+// This file guards the Makefile that builds this program, which is why
+// it lives beside it rather than in a package of its own.
+//
+// Issue #110: `build` was listed in .PHONY with no `build:` rule
+// anywhere in the file. That combination is silently successful — make
+// considers a phony target with no prerequisites and no recipe already
+// satisfied, so `rm -f vaultik && make build` printed "Nothing to be
+// done for 'build'" and exited 0 with no binary produced. Declaring the
+// name phony is precisely what converts the "No rule to make target"
+// error into a green.
+//
+// The guard is a parse of the Makefile rather than an invocation of
+// make. `make test` is what runs these tests, so shelling back into
+// `make build` here would nest a build inside the test run and drop a
+// binary into the tree as a side effect of testing. The one property a
+// parse cannot establish — that the recipe still fails when the build
+// fails — is not testable from inside the build either; it is verified
+// by hand against a deliberately broken tree.
+
+// phonyDirective introduces the list of phony target names.
+const phonyDirective = ".PHONY:"
+
+// ruleLine matches a rule's target list: a target starts in column
+// zero, so recipe lines (tab-indented) and the continuation lines of a
+// variable assignment (space-indented) are excluded by construction.
+//
+// The trailing (?:[^=]|$) rejects `:=` assignments such as
+// `VERSION := $(shell script/version)`, which are not rules. Directives
+// and function calls (`.PHONY:`, `ifeq`, `$(error ...)`) do not match
+// because a target here must begin with a letter, digit or underscore.
+var ruleLine = regexp.MustCompile(`^([A-Za-z0-9_][A-Za-z0-9_./ -]*):(?:[^=]|$)`)
+
+// TestPhonyTargetsAllHaveRules fails on any name in .PHONY that has no
+// rule in the Makefile. Such a name is not a build target at all: it is
+// a command that reports success without doing anything, which is worse
+// than one that does not exist, because a caller checking the exit code
+// cannot tell the difference.
+func TestPhonyTargetsAllHaveRules(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	makefile := readMakefile(t)
+
+	phony := phonyTargets(makefile)
+	require.NotEmpty(t, phony, "no .PHONY names found; the parser is broken")
+
+	rules := declaredRules(makefile)
+
+	// Sanity check on the rule parser before trusting its verdict: a
+	// parser that found nothing would pass this test by accident.
+	require.Contains(t, rules, "vaultik",
+		"the file rule that builds the binary must be recognized")
+
+	for _, target := range phony {
+		assert.Contains(t, rules, target,
+			"`.PHONY` lists %q but the Makefile declares no %q rule, so "+
+				"`make %s` exits 0 without doing anything", target, target, target)
+	}
+}
+
+// TestBuildTargetBuildsTheBinary pins the specific shape of issue #110:
+// `make build` has to reach the rule that produces the binary. The test
+// above would also pass if `build:` were given an empty recipe of its
+// own, which would be the same silent success under a different
+// spelling.
+func TestBuildTargetBuildsTheBinary(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	prerequisites := rulePrerequisites(readMakefile(t), "build")
+	require.NotNil(t, prerequisites, "the Makefile declares no `build` rule")
+
+	assert.Contains(t, prerequisites, "vaultik",
+		"`make build` must depend on the rule that builds the binary")
+}
+
+// readMakefile returns the contents of the repository's Makefile.
+func readMakefile(t *testing.T) string {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	return readRepoFile(t, "Makefile")
+}
+
+// readRepoFile reads a file by its path relative to the repository
+// root.
+func readRepoFile(t *testing.T, name string) string {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	//nolint:gosec // G304: the path is a constant relative to this repo
+	contents, err := os.ReadFile(filepath.Join(repoRoot(t), name))
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	return string(contents)
+}
+
+// repoRoot returns the repository root. The test binary runs with its
+// package directory as the working directory, so the root is found by
+// walking up until the module file appears.
+func repoRoot(t *testing.T) string {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	dir, err := os.Getwd()
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	for {
+		_, err = os.Stat(filepath.Join(dir, "go.mod"))
+		if err == nil {
+			return dir
+		}
+
+		parent := filepath.Dir(dir)
+		require.NotEqual(t, dir, parent,
+			"walked to the filesystem root without finding a go.mod")
+
+		dir = parent
+	}
+}
+
+// phonyTargets returns every name declared phony, across all .PHONY
+// lines.
+func phonyTargets(makefile string) []string {
+	var targets []string
+
+	for line := range strings.SplitSeq(makefile, "\n") {
+		if !strings.HasPrefix(line, phonyDirective) {
+			continue
+		}
+
+		targets = append(targets,
+			strings.Fields(strings.TrimPrefix(line, phonyDirective))...)
+	}
+
+	return targets
+}
+
+// declaredRules returns the set of target names that have a rule.
+func declaredRules(makefile string) map[string]bool {
+	rules := make(map[string]bool)
+
+	for line := range strings.SplitSeq(makefile, "\n") {
+		match := ruleLine.FindStringSubmatch(line)
+		if match == nil {
+			continue
+		}
+
+		// One rule may name several targets: `a b: prereq`.
+		for target := range strings.FieldsSeq(match[1]) {
+			rules[target] = true
+		}
+	}
+
+	return rules
+}
+
+// rulePrerequisites returns the prerequisites of the named rule, or nil
+// if no such rule exists. A rule with none returns an empty slice, so
+// "declared with nothing to do" is distinguishable from "not declared".
+func rulePrerequisites(makefile, target string) []string {
+	for line := range strings.SplitSeq(makefile, "\n") {
+		match := ruleLine.FindStringSubmatch(line)
+		if match == nil {
+			continue
+		}
+
+		if !slices.Contains(strings.Fields(match[1]), target) {
+			continue
+		}
+
+		_, after, _ := strings.Cut(line, ":")
+
+		return append([]string{}, strings.Fields(after)...)
+	}
+
+	return nil
+}

config.example.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,370 @@
+# vaultik configuration file example
+# This file shows every configuration option. The values are examples, not
+# defaults; where an option has a default, its comment gives it.
+# Copy this file and change the values you need
+
+# Age recipient public keys for encryption
+# Backups are encrypted to these public keys. snapshot create needs at least
+# one; listing, verifying and restoring do not
+# Generate a key pair, and show its public key, with:
+#   age-keygen -o vaultik_backup_private_key.txt
+#   grep 'public key' vaultik_backup_private_key.txt
+# Keep the private key file: restoring needs it. Do not pipe age-keygen
+# straight into grep, which would discard the private key
+age_recipients:
+  - age1cj2k2addawy294f6k2gr2mf9gps9r3syplryxca3nvxj3daqm96qfp84tz
+
+# Age private key for decryption
+# Only snapshot restore and snapshot verify --deep need it. The
+# VAULTIK_AGE_SECRET_KEY environment variable overrides this setting
+# Do not set it on a machine you back up: prefer the environment variable,
+# supplied only on the machine you restore on
+# Default: not set
+#age_secret_key: YOUR_AGE_PRIVATE_KEY
+
+# Named snapshots - each snapshot can contain multiple paths
+# Each snapshot gets its own ID and can have snapshot-specific excludes
+# Required: at least one snapshot with at least one path. Only the config
+# commands, version and completion run without one
+snapshots:
+  testing:
+    paths:
+      - ~/dev/vaultik
+  apps:
+    paths:
+      - /Applications
+    exclude:
+      - "/App Store.app"
+      - "/Apps.app"
+      - "/Automator.app"
+      - "/Books.app"
+      - "/Calculator.app"
+      - "/Calendar.app"
+      - "/Chess.app"
+      - "/Clock.app"
+      - "/Contacts.app"
+      - "/Dictionary.app"
+      - "/FaceTime.app"
+      - "/FindMy.app"
+      - "/Font Book.app"
+      - "/Freeform.app"
+      - "/Games.app"
+      - "/GarageBand.app"
+      - "/Home.app"
+      - "/Image Capture.app"
+      - "/Image Playground.app"
+      - "/Journal.app"
+      - "/Keynote.app"
+      - "/Mail.app"
+      - "/Maps.app"
+      - "/Messages.app"
+      - "/Mission Control.app"
+      - "/Music.app"
+      - "/News.app"
+      - "/Notes.app"
+      - "/Numbers.app"
+      - "/Pages.app"
+      - "/Passwords.app"
+      - "/Phone.app"
+      - "/Photo Booth.app"
+      - "/Photos.app"
+      - "/Podcasts.app"
+      - "/Preview.app"
+      - "/QuickTime Player.app"
+      - "/Reminders.app"
+      - "/Safari.app"
+      - "/Shortcuts.app"
+      - "/Siri.app"
+      - "/Stickies.app"
+      - "/Stocks.app"
+      - "/System Settings.app"
+      - "/TV.app"
+      - "/TextEdit.app"
+      - "/Time Machine.app"
+      - "/Tips.app"
+      - "/Utilities/Activity Monitor.app"
+      - "/Utilities/AirPort Utility.app"
+      - "/Utilities/Audio MIDI Setup.app"
+      - "/Utilities/Bluetooth File Exchange.app"
+      - "/Utilities/Boot Camp Assistant.app"
+      - "/Utilities/ColorSync Utility.app"
+      - "/Utilities/Console.app"
+      - "/Utilities/Digital Color Meter.app"
+      - "/Utilities/Disk Utility.app"
+      - "/Utilities/Grapher.app"
+      - "/Utilities/Magnifier.app"
+      - "/Utilities/Migration Assistant.app"
+      - "/Utilities/Print Center.app"
+      - "/Utilities/Screen Sharing.app"
+      - "/Utilities/Screenshot.app"
+      - "/Utilities/Script Editor.app"
+      - "/Utilities/System Information.app"
+      - "/Utilities/Terminal.app"
+      - "/Utilities/VoiceOver Utility.app"
+      - "/VoiceMemos.app"
+      - "/Weather.app"
+      - "/iMovie.app"
+      - "/iPhone Mirroring.app"
+  home:
+    paths:
+      - "~"
+    exclude:
+      - "/.Trash"
+      - "/tmp"
+      - "/Library/Caches"
+      - "/Library/Accounts"
+      - "/Library/AppleMediaServices"
+      - "/Library/Application Support/AddressBook"
+      - "/Library/Application Support/CallHistoryDB"
+      - "/Library/Application Support/CallHistoryTransactions"
+      - "/Library/Application Support/DifferentialPrivacy"
+      - "/Library/Application Support/FaceTime"
+      - "/Library/Application Support/FileProvider"
+      - "/Library/Application Support/Knowledge"
+      - "/Library/Application Support/com.apple.TCC"
+      - "/Library/Application Support/com.apple.avfoundation/Frecents"
+      - "/Library/Application Support/com.apple.sharedfilelist"
+      - "/Library/Assistant/SiriVocabulary"
+      - "/Library/Autosave Information"
+      - "/Library/Biome"
+      - "/Library/ContainerManager"
+      - "/Library/Containers/com.apple.Home"
+      - "/Library/Containers/com.apple.Maps/Data/Maps"
+      - "/Library/Containers/com.apple.MobileSMS"
+      - "/Library/Containers/com.apple.Notes"
+      - "/Library/Containers/com.apple.Safari"
+      - "/Library/Containers/com.apple.Safari.WebApp"
+      - "/Library/Containers/com.apple.VoiceMemos"
+      - "/Library/Containers/com.apple.archiveutility"
+      - "/Library/Containers/com.apple.corerecents.recentsd/Data/Library/Recents"
+      - "/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail"
+      - "/Library/Containers/com.apple.news"
+      - "/Library/Containers/com.apple.stocks"
+      - "/Library/Cookies"
+      - "/Library/CoreFollowUp"
+      - "/Library/Daemon Containers"
+      - "/Library/DoNotDisturb"
+      - "/Library/DuetExpertCenter"
+      - "/Library/Group Containers/com.apple.Home.group"
+      - "/Library/Group Containers/com.apple.MailPersonaStorage"
+      - "/Library/Group Containers/com.apple.PreviewLegacySignaturesConversion"
+      - "/Library/Group Containers/com.apple.bird"
+      - "/Library/Group Containers/com.apple.stickersd.group"
+      - "/Library/Group Containers/com.apple.systempreferences.cache"
+      - "/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.AppleSpell"
+      - "/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.ArchiveUtility.PKSignedContainer"
+      - "/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.DeviceActivity"
+      - "/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.Journal"
+      - "/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.ManagedSettings"
+      - "/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.PegasusConfiguration"
+      - "/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.Safari.SandboxBroker"
+      - "/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.SiriTTS"
+      - "/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.UserNotifications"
+      - "/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.VoiceMemos.shared"
+      - "/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.accessibility.voicebanking"
+      - "/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.amsondevicestoraged"
+      - "/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.appstoreagent"
+      - "/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.calendar"
+      - "/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.chronod"
+      - "/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.contacts"
+      - "/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.controlcenter"
+      - "/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.corerepair"
+      - "/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.coreservices.useractivityd"
+      - "/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.energykit"
+      - "/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.feedback"
+      - "/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.feedbacklogger"
+      - "/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.findmy.findmylocateagent"
+      - "/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.iCloudDrive"
+      - "/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.icloud.fmfcore"
+      - "/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.icloud.fmipcore"
+      - "/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.icloud.searchpartyuseragent"
+      - "/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.liveactivitiesd"
+      - "/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.loginwindow.persistent-apps"
+      - "/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.mail"
+      - "/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.mlhost"
+      - "/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.moments"
+      - "/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.news"
+      - "/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.newsd"
+      - "/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.notes"
+      - "/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.notes.import"
+      - "/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.photolibraryd.private"
+      - "/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.portrait.BackgroundReplacement"
+      - "/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.printtool"
+      - "/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.private.translation"
+      - "/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.reminders"
+      - "/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.replicatord"
+      - "/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.scopedbookmarkagent"
+      - "/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.secure-control-center-preferences"
+      - "/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.sharingd"
+      - "/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.shortcuts"
+      - "/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.siri.inference"
+      - "/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.siri.referenceResolution"
+      - "/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.siri.remembers"
+      - "/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.siri.userfeedbacklearning"
+      - "/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.spotlight"
+      - "/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.stocks"
+      - "/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.stocks-news"
+      - "/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.studentd"
+      - "/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.swtransparency"
+      - "/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.telephonyutilities.callservicesd"
+      - "/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.tips"
+      - "/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.tipsnext"
+      - "/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.transparency"
+      - "/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.usernoted"
+      - "/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.weather"
+      - "/Library/HomeKit"
+      - "/Library/IdentityServices"
+      - "/Library/IntelligencePlatform"
+      - "/Library/Mail"
+      - "/Library/Messages"
+      - "/Library/Metadata/CoreSpotlight"
+      - "/Library/Metadata/com.apple.IntelligentSuggestions"
+      - "/Library/PersonalizationPortrait"
+      - "/Library/Safari"
+      - "/Library/Sharing"
+      - "/Library/Shortcuts"
+      - "/Library/StatusKit"
+      - "/Library/Suggestions"
+      - "/Library/Trial"
+      - "/Library/Weather"
+      - "/Library/com.apple.aiml.instrumentation"
+      - "/Movies/TV"
+  system:
+    paths:
+      - /
+    exclude:
+      # Virtual/transient filesystems
+      - /proc
+      - /sys
+      - /dev
+      - /run
+      - /tmp
+      - /var/tmp
+      - /var/run
+      - /var/lock
+      - /var/cache
+      - /media
+      - /mnt
+      # Swap
+      - /swapfile
+      - /swap.img
+      # Package manager caches
+      - /var/cache/apt
+      - /var/cache/yum
+      - /var/cache/dnf
+      - /var/cache/pacman
+      # Trash
+      - "*/.local/share/Trash"
+  dev:
+    paths:
+      - /Users/user/dev
+    exclude:
+      - "**/node_modules"
+      - "**/target"
+      - "**/build"
+      - "**/__pycache__"
+      - "**/*.pyc"
+      - "**/.venv"
+      - "**/vendor"
+
+# Global patterns to exclude from all backups
+exclude:
+  - "*.tmp"
+
+# Storage URL - use either this OR the s3 section below
+# Supports: s3://bucket/prefix, file:///path, rclone://remote/path
+# An s3:// URL also needs s3.access_key_id and s3.secret_access_key below
+# A file:// path must be absolute, and the directory must already exist:
+# vaultik never creates it
+# An rclone:// URL needs the remote to be defined in rclone's own config
+# (rclone config)
+storage_url: "rclone://myremote/path/to/backups"
+
+# S3-compatible storage configuration
+#s3:
+#  # S3-compatible endpoint URL
+#  # Examples: https://s3.amazonaws.com, https://storage.googleapis.com
+#  endpoint: https://s3.example.com
+#
+#  # Bucket name where backups will be stored
+#  bucket: mybucket
+#
+#  # Prefix (folder) within the bucket for this host's backups
+#  # Useful for organizing backups from multiple hosts
+#  # Default: empty (root of bucket)
+#  #prefix: "hosts/myserver/"
+#
+#  # S3 access credentials
+#  access_key_id: YOUR_ACCESS_KEY
+#  secret_access_key: YOUR_SECRET_KEY
+#
+#  # S3 region
+#  # Default: us-east-1
+#  #region: us-east-1
+#
+#  # Use SSL/TLS for S3 connections
+#  # Only read when storage_url is not set and the endpoint has no scheme;
+#  # with an s3:// storage_url, use ?ssl=false in the URL instead
+#  # Default: true
+#  #use_ssl: true
+#
+#  # Part size for multipart uploads
+#  # Minimum 5MiB, maximum 5GiB; affects memory usage during upload
+#  # A blob too large for 10,000 parts of this size gets larger parts
+#  # Supports: 10MB, 16MiB, 100MiB, etc. (5MB is below the minimum)
+#  # Default: 5MiB
+#  #part_size: 5MiB
+
+# Path to local SQLite index database
+# This database tracks file state for incremental backups
+# The VAULTIK_INDEX_PATH environment variable overrides this setting
+# Default: the platform data directory, e.g.
+#   macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/vaultik/index.sqlite
+#   Linux: ~/.local/share/vaultik/index.sqlite
+#index_path: /path/to/index.sqlite
+
+# Average chunk size for content-defined chunking
+# Smaller chunks = better deduplication but more metadata
+# Minimum 1MB
+# Supports: 10MB, 5M, 1GB, 64MiB, etc.
+# Default: 10MB
+#chunk_size: 10MB
+
+# Maximum blob size
+# Multiple chunks are packed into blobs up to this size
+# Must be at least four times chunk_size (the largest chunk the chunker can
+# emit); a smaller limit would let a single-chunk blob exceed it.
+# Chunking uses no secret (the FastCDC parameters are fixed and public). At a
+# large limit a blob holds hundreds of chunks, so individual chunk lengths are
+# not visible in its size; lowering the limit toward chunk_size exposes them.
+# A backup needs free temporary space, because each blob is written whole to
+# a temporary file before it is uploaded (up to about blob_size_limit; an
+# rclone destination that cannot stream uploads needs about twice that) and
+# the metadata export writes copies of the local index. Temporary files go to
+# $TMPDIR (default /tmp); with TMPDIR unset, SQLite writes one of those copies
+# to /var/tmp.
+# Supports: 1GB, 10G, 500MB, 1GiB, etc.
+# Default: 10GB
+#blob_size_limit: 10GB
+
+# Compression level (1-19)
+# Higher = better compression but slower
+# Default: 3
+compression_level: 5
+
+# How old a blob that no snapshot lists must be before prune deletes it, and
+# how old every object in a directory under metadata/ with no manifest must
+# be before prune deletes that directory
+# A backup uploads its blobs and its db.zst.age before its manifest, so on a
+# destination shared between hosts or users this must be longer than the
+# longest backup run
+# It does not protect a blob a backup reuses from an earlier run that stopped
+# before its manifest: that blob keeps the time of its first upload, so a
+# prune can delete it
+# Supports: 36h, 90m, etc.; 0s deletes such blobs and directories at once
+# Default: 24h
+#prune_grace_period: 24h
+
+# Hostname to use in backup metadata
+# Default: system hostname
+#hostname: myserver

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+# vaultik data model
+
+`vaultik` keeps a SQLite database on the backed-up machine, called the local
+index. This document describes its tables and how each command uses them.
+
+The local index has two jobs:
+
+- It records which files, chunks and blobs are already stored. The next backup
+  then does not store them again.
+- It is the source of each snapshot's own database. A backup uploads a trimmed,
+  encrypted copy of the index with every snapshot.
+
+A restore does not need the local index. It reads the copy that was uploaded
+with the snapshot.
+
+## Terms
+
+- **Snapshot**: one backup of the paths listed under one name in the config.
+- **Chunk**: a piece of a file's content, named by the SHA-256 hash of that
+  content.
+- **Blob**: one object at the destination. It holds many chunks, compressed and
+  then encrypted.
+- **Destination**: the place the backups are stored.
+- **Manifest**: the unencrypted list of the blobs one snapshot uses.
+- **Remote key**: a hash of the snapshot ID. It names the snapshot's directory
+  at the destination.
+
+## Where the index is
+
+The index is the file `index.sqlite` in the platform data directory. That is
+`~/.local/share/vaultik/` on Linux and `~/Library/Application Support/vaultik/`
+on macOS. The `index_path` setting and the `VAULTIK_INDEX_PATH` environment
+variable change the path.
+
+The file is readable only by its owner, because it lists every backed-up path.
+`vaultik` sets that mode each time it opens the index.
+
+## Schema migrations
+
+`vaultik` supports schema migrations. They are the numbered SQL files in
+`internal/database/schema/`, which are built into the binary.
+
+- `000.sql` creates the `schema_migrations` table. That table records each
+  migration that has run.
+- `001.sql` creates every other table.
+
+`database.New` opens the index. It then applies, in order, every migration that
+the index has not recorded.
+
+Before version 1.0, no migration is added, because nothing is installed anywhere
+yet. A schema change edits `001.sql` directly, with the code that uses the
+changed tables.
+
+This has one consequence. An index created before such a change has already
+recorded `001.sql` as run, so it keeps the old schema and can become unusable.
+To rebuild it, run `vaultik database delete` and then a full backup.
+
+After version 1.0, each schema change is a new numbered file. An existing index
+is then migrated the first time an updated `vaultik` opens it. A file that was
+part of a release is never edited.
+
+Migrations apply to the local index only. A snapshot's database at the
+destination is read as it was written. Each snapshot records the `vaultik`
+version that wrote it.
+
+## Tables
+
+Times are whole seconds since the Unix epoch, in UTC. The two exceptions are
+noted at their columns.
+
+### `files`
+
+One row for each backed-up path: a regular file, a symlink or a directory.
+
+- `id`: a UUID. Primary key.
+- `path`: the absolute path. Unique.
+- `source_path`: the configured path that the scan found this entry under. A
+  restore does not read it.
+- `mtime`: the modification time.
+- `mtime_nsec`: the nanoseconds within that second.
+- `size`: the size in bytes.
+- `mode`: the permission bits and the file type.
+- `uid`: the owner's user ID.
+- `gid`: the owner's group ID.
+- `link_target`: the target of a symlink. It is `NULL` for other entries.
+
+`idx_files_path` indexes `path`.
+
+There is one row for each path, and it is updated when the file changes. The
+row is shared by every snapshot in the local index that lists the path. An
+older snapshot's own view of the file is in that snapshot's database at the
+destination.
+
+### `chunks`
+
+One row for each distinct chunk.
+
+- `chunk_hash`: the SHA-256 hash of the chunk's content, in hex. Primary key.
+- `size`: the size in bytes.
+
+### `file_chunks`
+
+The chunks that make up each file, in order.
+
+- `file_id`: the file. References `files.id`.
+- `idx`: the position of the chunk within the file, counted from 0.
+- `chunk_hash`: the chunk. References `chunks.chunk_hash`.
+
+The primary key is (`file_id`, `idx`). `idx_file_chunks_chunk_hash` indexes
+`chunk_hash`.
+
+### `chunk_files`
+
+The reverse of `file_chunks`: the files that contain each chunk.
+
+- `chunk_hash`: the chunk. References `chunks.chunk_hash`.
+- `file_id`: the file. References `files.id`.
+- `file_offset`: the byte offset of the chunk within the file.
+- `length`: the length of the chunk in bytes.
+
+The primary key is (`chunk_hash`, `file_id`). `idx_chunk_files_file_id` indexes
+`file_id`.
+
+### `blobs`
+
+One row for each blob.
+
+- `id`: a UUID, given when packing of the blob starts. Primary key.
+- `blob_hash`: the name of the blob at the destination. Unique. Until the blob
+  is closed, it holds a placeholder that starts with `temp-placeholder-`.
+- `created_ts`: when packing started.
+- `finished_ts`: when the blob was closed. It is `NULL` before that.
+- `uncompressed_size`: the total size of the blob's chunks.
+- `compressed_size`: the size after compression and encryption.
+- `uploaded_ts`: when the upload finished. It is `NULL` before that.
+
+`blob_hash` is `hex(SHA256(SHA256(uncompressed contents)))`. See
+[REPOSTRUCTURE.md](REPOSTRUCTURE.md#blobs).
+
+Once a blob is uploaded, `compressed_size` is the size of the object at the
+destination. A blob that was already there can have a different size from the
+local copy. That happens when it was written with another compression level or
+other recipients.
+
+### `blob_chunks`
+
+The chunks that each blob holds.
+
+- `blob_id`: the blob. References `blobs.id`.
+- `chunk_hash`: the chunk. References `chunks.chunk_hash`.
+- `offset`: the byte offset of the chunk within the uncompressed blob.
+- `length`: the length of the chunk in bytes.
+
+The primary key is (`blob_id`, `chunk_hash`). `idx_blob_chunks_chunk_hash`
+indexes `chunk_hash`.
+
+A restore finds the blob for each chunk through this table.
+
+### `snapshots`
+
+One row for each snapshot.
+
+- `id`: the snapshot ID. Primary key.
+- `hostname`: the hostname of the machine that made the backup.
+- `vaultik_version`: the `vaultik` version that made it.
+- `vaultik_git_revision`: the git commit of that version.
+- `started_at`: when the backup started.
+- `completed_at`: when the backup finished. It is `NULL` until then.
+- `file_count`: the number of files and symlinks in the snapshot. Directories
+  are not counted.
+- `chunk_count`: the number of chunks this snapshot stored that were not stored
+  before.
+- `new_chunk_size`: the total size of those chunks before compression.
+- `blob_count`: the number of blobs this snapshot created.
+- `total_size`: the total size of all files in the snapshot.
+- `uncompressed_chunk_size`: the total size, before compression, of the
+  distinct chunks the snapshot's files use.
+- `blob_size`: the total compressed size of the blobs the snapshot uses.
+- `blob_uncompressed_size`: the total uncompressed size of those blobs.
+- `compression_ratio`: the compression ratio of those blobs.
+- `compression_level`: the compression level the backup used.
+- `upload_bytes`: the bytes uploaded during the backup.
+- `upload_duration_ms`: the time spent uploading, in milliseconds.
+
+The snapshot ID has the form `<hostname>_<snapshot-name>_<timestamp>`. An
+example is `server1_home_2025-06-01T12:00:00Z`. It has three parts:
+
+- the hostname, up to its first `.`
+- the snapshot name
+- the start time, in UTC
+
+`snapshot list` shows `uncompressed_chunk_size` as `UNCOMPRESSED SIZE` and
+`new_chunk_size` as `NEW CHUNK SIZE`.
+
+A snapshot with `completed_at` set to `NULL` is unfinished. `snapshot list`
+does not show it. The next backup deletes it, and so does `prune`.
+
+### `snapshot_files`
+
+The files in each snapshot.
+
+- `snapshot_id`: the snapshot. References `snapshots.id`.
+- `file_id`: the file. References `files.id`.
+
+The primary key is (`snapshot_id`, `file_id`). `idx_snapshot_files_file_id`
+indexes `file_id`.
+
+### `snapshot_blobs`
+
+The blobs that each snapshot uses.
+
+- `snapshot_id`: the snapshot. References `snapshots.id`.
+- `blob_id`: the blob. References `blobs.id`.
+- `blob_hash`: a copy of the blob's hash.
+
+The primary key is (`snapshot_id`, `blob_id`). `idx_snapshot_blobs_blob_id`
+indexes `blob_id`.
+
+The manifest is built from this table.
+
+### `snapshot_mount_points`
+
+The mount points that a snapshot's backup found.
+
+- `snapshot_id`: the snapshot. References `snapshots.id`.
+- `path`: the absolute path of the directory.
+
+The primary key is (`snapshot_id`, `path`).
+
+A directory is recorded here when all of these hold:
+
+- It is at or below a configured path.
+- The backup found an entry in it that is not excluded.
+- It is on a different filesystem from its parent directory.
+
+The device number is read after the directory has been listed. Listing an
+automount point mounts its volume, so the number is that of the volume. An
+automount point whose volume cannot be mounted is not recorded, because the
+backup finds no entry in it.
+
+`snapshot create --prune` reads this table. It skips the prune when an earlier
+snapshot of the same name recorded a mount point that the new backup did not
+find. That happens when the volume is not mounted.
+
+### `uploads`
+
+One row for each blob that a backup uploaded.
+
+- `blob_hash`: the blob. References `blobs.blob_hash`. Primary key.
+- `snapshot_id`: the snapshot whose backup uploaded it. References
+  `snapshots.id`.
+- `uploaded_at`: when the upload started. It is written as a date and time, not
+  as seconds.
+- `size`: the size of the uploaded blob.
+- `duration_ms`: the duration of the upload, in milliseconds.
+
+`idx_uploads_snapshot_id` indexes `snapshot_id`.
+
+A blob that was already at the destination gets no row here.
+
+### `local_meta`
+
+Settings that belong to this copy of the index.
+
+- `key`: the name of the setting. Primary key.
+- `value`: its value.
+
+The only key is `storage_url`. It holds the destination that the index was
+first used with. A command that changes data refuses to run when the config
+names a different destination.
+
+### `schema_migrations`
+
+The migrations that have run.
+
+- `version`: the number of the migration. Primary key.
+- `applied_at`: when it ran. It is written as a date and time, not as seconds.
+
+## How commands use the tables
+
+### Backup
+
+A backup works on the tables in this order:
+
+- It deletes unfinished snapshots, and the rows that no snapshot uses.
+- It creates a row in `snapshots`, with `completed_at` set to `NULL`.
+- It deletes the `blobs` rows that were never uploaded.
+- It walks each path and compares every entry with its row in `files`.
+- It links each unchanged file to the snapshot in `snapshot_files`.
+- It records each mount point in `snapshot_mount_points`.
+- It reads each changed file and stores it. See below.
+- It fills `snapshot_blobs` with every blob the snapshot uses.
+- It stores the snapshot's totals in `snapshots`.
+- It uploads the snapshot's metadata.
+- It sets `completed_at`.
+
+A file counts as changed when its row in `files` differs from the file on disk
+in any of these:
+
+- size
+- modification time
+- mode
+- owner or group
+- link target
+
+A file is also read again when it lists a chunk that no uploaded blob holds.
+
+Storing a changed file writes these rows:
+
+- A row in `blobs`, when packing of a blob starts.
+- When the blob is closed, in one transaction:
+    - a row in `chunks` for each new chunk in the blob
+    - the blob's rows in `blob_chunks`
+    - the blob's `blob_hash`, sizes and `finished_ts`
+- When the blob is stored at the destination, in one transaction:
+    - `uploaded_ts` and `compressed_size` in `blobs`
+    - a row in `snapshot_blobs`
+    - a row in `uploads`, unless the blob was already at the destination
+- The row in `files`, with its `file_chunks`, `chunk_files` and
+  `snapshot_files` rows.
+
+The row in `files` is written last. It is written only after every blob that
+holds the file's new chunks is stored.
+
+### Snapshot metadata
+
+The metadata of a snapshot is made from a copy of the index:
+
+- The index is copied into a temporary directory with `VACUUM INTO`.
+- The rows of every other snapshot are deleted from the copy. So are the files
+  and blobs that this snapshot does not use. A chunk is then deleted when no
+  remaining file and no remaining blob uses it.
+- The `local_meta` and `schema_migrations` tables are kept as they are. The
+  uploaded database therefore names the destination, and lists the migrations
+  that have run.
+- `VACUUM` rewrites the copy, so that no deleted row is left in the file.
+- The copy is compressed with zstd and encrypted with age.
+- The manifest is built from the copy's `snapshot_blobs` table.
+- The copy is uploaded as `metadata/<remote-key>/db.zst.age`.
+- The manifest is uploaded as `metadata/<remote-key>/manifest.json.zst`.
+
+The copy is made through SQLite, not by copying the file. The index runs in WAL
+mode, so rows that are already committed can still be in the `-wal` file beside
+it.
+
+### Restore
+
+A restore does not use the local index.
+
+- It downloads and decrypts `db.zst.age` into a temporary directory.
+- It opens that file read-only. It applies no migration to it.
+- It reads the files to restore from `files`.
+- It finds each file's chunks in `file_chunks`.
+- It finds the blob and offset of each chunk in `blob_chunks`.
+- It finds the name of each blob in `blobs`.
+
+It does not read the manifest.
+
+### Prune
+
+`prune` changes the local index in two ways:
+
+- It deletes each snapshot whose manifest is gone from the destination.
+- It deletes unfinished snapshots, and the rows that no snapshot uses.
+
+The second step removes unused rows in this order:
+
+- files that are in no snapshot
+- blobs that are in no snapshot
+- `blob_chunks` rows whose chunk is gone
+- chunks that no file and no blob uses
+
+`prune` then deletes unused data at the destination. That step reads the
+manifests, not the local index. It reads the local index only to keep a
+directory under `metadata/` whose snapshot is still recorded there.
+
+## Code
+
+Each repository type in `internal/database` serves one or more tables:
+
+- `FileRepository`: `files`
+- `ChunkRepository`: `chunks`
+- `FileChunkRepository`: `file_chunks`
+- `ChunkFileRepository`: `chunk_files`
+- `BlobRepository`: `blobs`
+- `BlobChunkRepository`: `blob_chunks`
+- `SnapshotRepository`:
+    - `snapshots`
+    - `snapshot_files`
+    - `snapshot_blobs`
+    - `snapshot_mount_points`
+- `UploadRepository`: `uploads`
+- `LocalMetaRepository`: `local_meta`
+
+No repository type serves `schema_migrations`. The code that applies the
+migrations reads and writes it.
+
+`Repositories` holds one of each type.
+
+`Repositories.WithTx` runs a function in one transaction:
+
+```go
+err := repos.WithTx(ctx, func(ctx context.Context, tx *sql.Tx) error {
+    // several repository calls that use tx
+})
+```
+
+The transaction commits when the function returns no error. Otherwise it is
+rolled back.
+
+## SQLite settings
+
+- The index runs in WAL mode. A command that only reads, such as
+  `snapshot list`, can read the index while a backup writes to it.
+- A connection waits up to 10 seconds for a lock before it fails.
+- Foreign keys are enforced.
+- Each open database uses one connection, so its queries run one at a time.
+- Queries pass their values as parameters.

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+# vaultik destination layout
+
+This document describes what `vaultik` stores at the destination. It covers the
+layout, what the layout protects, and the risks it accepts.
+
+The destination is the place the backups are stored. It is an S3 bucket and
+prefix, a local directory or an rclone remote. The layout is the same on all
+three.
+
+## Terms
+
+- **Snapshot**: one backup of the paths listed under one name in the config.
+- **Snapshot ID**: the name of a snapshot, in the form
+  `<hostname>_<snapshot-name>_<timestamp>`.
+- **Chunk**: a piece of a file's content, named by the SHA-256 hash of that
+  content.
+- **Blob**: one object under `blobs/`. It holds many chunks.
+- **Local index**: the SQLite database on the backed-up machine.
+- **Recipient**: an age public key that backups are encrypted to.
+
+## Layout
+
+```
+<destination>/
+├── vaultik-destination.txt
+├── blobs/
+│   └── <hash[0:2]>/
+│       └── <hash[2:4]>/
+│           └── <hash>
+└── metadata/
+    └── <remote-key>/
+        ├── db.zst.age
+        └── manifest.json.zst
+```
+
+The destination holds three things:
+
+- `vaultik-destination.txt`, the marker file
+- `blobs/`, which holds the file contents
+- `metadata/`, which holds one directory for each snapshot
+
+## The marker file
+
+Every backup writes `vaultik-destination.txt` before it uploads anything else.
+The file holds one fixed line of text. It names no host, path or time.
+
+The marker tells an emptied or missing destination apart from a new one. An
+unplugged volume leaves an empty directory at its mount point. Without the
+marker, that directory would look like a destination whose snapshots are all
+gone.
+
+The check applies while the local index holds snapshots. When the destination
+then answers that the marker does not exist, commands treat the destination as
+not present:
+
+- `snapshot create` refuses to write to it.
+- `prune`, `snapshot purge` and `remote nuke` fail.
+- `snapshot list` shows the local index alone.
+- `snapshot remove` deletes nothing at the destination.
+
+The check is skipped when the look-up fails for any other reason. S3 refuses
+the look-up to credentials that can only write. A machine with such credentials
+therefore does not notice an emptied destination. Its next backup would not
+upload data that its local index says is stored. After a destination is emptied,
+run `vaultik database delete` on such a machine before it backs up again.
+
+`remote nuke` deletes the marker last.
+
+## Blobs
+
+A blob holds the content of many chunks, one after another.
+
+- **Path**: `blobs/<first 2 characters>/<next 2 characters>/<full hash>`.
+- **Example**:
+  `blobs/ca/fe/cafebabe1234567890abcdef1234567890abcdef1234567890abcdef12345678`.
+- **Format**: the chunk data, compressed with zstd and then encrypted with age.
+- **Recipients**: the public keys in `age_recipients` when the blob was written.
+
+The two directory levels keep any one directory from holding too many objects.
+
+### Blob names
+
+A blob's name is `hex(SHA256(SHA256(uncompressed contents)))`. The contents are
+the chunk data, joined in order, before compression and encryption. The name is
+not a hash of the stored bytes.
+
+This has two consequences:
+
+- Checking a blob against its name needs the private key. The blob must be
+  decrypted and decompressed first. `snapshot restore` and
+  `snapshot verify --deep` do this.
+- Without the key, only a blob's presence and size can be checked.
+  `snapshot verify` does this.
+
+`blobgen.DoubleSHA256` in `internal/blobgen` computes the name.
+
+### Uploads
+
+A backup looks a blob up by name before it uploads it. It does not upload a
+blob that is already there.
+
+When the destination refuses the look-up, the backup uploads the blob. An
+object with that name is then replaced by one that holds the same chunk data.
+
+## Metadata
+
+Each snapshot has one directory under `metadata/`. The directory is named with
+the snapshot's remote key, not with its snapshot ID.
+
+### Snapshot IDs
+
+A snapshot ID has the form `<hostname>_<snapshot-name>_<timestamp>`. An example
+is `laptop_home_2024-01-15T14:30:52Z`. It has three parts:
+
+- the hostname, up to its first `.`
+- the snapshot name from the config
+- the time the backup started, in UTC
+
+The snapshot ID is used on the command line, in log records and in the local
+index. It reveals the hostname, the snapshot name and the backup time. It is
+therefore never written to the destination without encryption.
+
+### Remote keys
+
+The remote key is `hex(SHA256(SHA256("vaultik|" + snapshot ID)))`. It is 64 hex
+characters long. `internal/snapshot/remotekey.go` computes it.
+
+For example:
+
+- Snapshot ID: `server1_home_2025-06-01T12:00:00Z`
+- Remote key: `17f97bcde958748af076b926af59823943db59e80ce7170b40f124dfa28f64aa`
+- Directory:
+  `metadata/17f97bcde958748af076b926af59823943db59e80ce7170b40f124dfa28f64aa/`
+
+A listing of the destination therefore shows no hostname and no snapshot name.
+
+The hash cannot be reversed, but it uses no secret. Someone who guesses a
+snapshot ID can hash it the same way and see whether that snapshot exists. The
+remote key keeps names out of a listing. It does not hide them from a guess.
+
+### `db.zst.age`
+
+The snapshot's database. A restore needs it.
+
+- **Contents**: a SQLite database. It is a copy of the local index without the
+  rows of other snapshots. It lists every file in the snapshot with its
+  metadata, its chunks, and the blob that holds each chunk.
+- **Format**: the database file, compressed with zstd and then encrypted with
+  age.
+
+It is encrypted because it holds file paths, permissions and owners.
+[DATAMODEL.md](DATAMODEL.md) describes its tables.
+
+### `manifest.json.zst`
+
+The list of the blobs the snapshot uses.
+
+- **Format**: JSON, compressed with zstd. It is not encrypted.
+
+```json
+{
+    "snapshot_id": "17f97bcde958748af076b926af59823943db59e80ce7170b40f124dfa28f64aa",
+    "timestamp": "2025-06-01T12:04:31Z",
+    "blob_count": 2,
+    "total_compressed_size": 57344,
+    "blobs": [
+        {
+            "hash": "cafebabe1234567890abcdef1234567890abcdef1234567890abcdef12345678",
+            "compressed_size": 24576
+        },
+        {
+            "hash": "deadbeef1234567890abcdef1234567890abcdef1234567890abcdef12345678",
+            "compressed_size": 32768
+        }
+    ]
+}
+```
+
+- `snapshot_id`: the remote key, not the snapshot ID.
+- `timestamp`: when the manifest was written, at the end of the backup.
+- `blob_count`: the number of blobs.
+- `total_compressed_size`: the total size of those blobs, in bytes.
+- `blobs`: the hash and the size of each blob.
+
+The manifest holds no file name and no path.
+
+The manifest is not encrypted so that these commands work without the private
+key:
+
+- `prune`, which must know which blobs are still in use
+- `snapshot verify`, which checks that each blob is present
+- `snapshot list` and `remote info`, which report what the destination holds
+
+## What is protected
+
+These are encrypted:
+
+- file contents, in the blobs
+- in `db.zst.age`:
+    - file names and paths
+    - permissions and owners
+    - modification times
+    - which chunks make up which file
+
+These are not encrypted:
+
+- the remote key of each snapshot
+- the time each backup finished, in the manifest
+- the hash and the compressed size of each blob, in the manifest
+- the number of blobs and their total size for each snapshot, in the manifest
+
+Someone who can read the destination therefore learns these:
+
+- when each backup finished
+- how many blobs each snapshot uses, and how large they are
+- which blobs two snapshots share
+- whether a snapshot ID they guess exists
+
+They do not learn these:
+
+- any hostname or snapshot name, unless they guess it
+- file names or paths
+- file contents
+- permissions or owners
+- the directory structure
+- which chunks belong to which file
+
+The times and sizes could not be hidden by encrypting the manifest. The
+destination itself shows when each object was written and how large it is.
+
+## Accepted risks
+
+These are known properties of the format. They are written down so that you can
+weigh them.
+
+### No proof of who wrote the data
+
+A restore and `snapshot verify --deep` prove two things. The data decrypts with
+your private key, and it matches its hashes. They do not prove who wrote it.
+
+The hashes use no secret. Someone who knows a recipient's public key and can
+replace objects at the destination can put a snapshot of their own there. The
+public key is not stored at the destination, but a backed-up machine that is
+broken into has it.
+
+The defences are on the destination's side:
+
+- object versioning or object lock on the bucket
+- credentials for the backed-up machine that cannot delete or overwrite
+- running `prune` from a trusted machine
+
+An S3 `PutObject` replaces an existing object. Permission to write alone
+therefore does not stop overwrites.
+
+### Sizes are visible
+
+An object's size follows exactly from the size of its compressed contents.
+
+All the new chunks in one blob share one zstd stream. The stream looks back 8
+MiB, or 4 MiB at compression levels 1 and 2. A blob is closed at
+`blob_size_limit` and at the end of each configured path. A chunk that is
+already stored is never packed again.
+
+Data that an outsider writes compresses smaller when it matches a secret in the
+same chunk, so the blob gets smaller. The blob's size therefore shows the
+outsider whether their data matched the secret.
+
+This works only when all of these hold:
+
+- The outsider can write into a backed-up file.
+- The outsider can see the blob sizes at the destination.
+- The outsider's data and the secret land in the same chunk.
+- The file keeps changing.
+
+Back up a directory that outsiders can write to as a snapshot of its own.
+
+### Chunk boundaries use no secret
+
+The FastCDC parameters are fixed and public. `chunk_size` sets the average chunk
+size. No chunk is larger than four times this size. Only a file's last chunk can
+be smaller than a quarter of it. With the default of 10 MB, those limits are 40
+MB and 2.5 MB. A file of 2.5 MB or less is one chunk.
+
+At the default `blob_size_limit` of 10 GB, a blob holds hundreds of chunks. The
+size of the blob then does not show the size of any one chunk. A limit close to
+`chunk_size` begins to show chunk sizes.
+
+### Decrypted data on the local disk
+
+These commands write unencrypted data to the temporary directory:
+
+- `snapshot restore` writes decrypted blobs under `vaultik-blobcache-*/`. There
+  is no limit on their total size.
+- `snapshot restore` writes the decrypted database to
+  `vaultik-restore-*/snapshot.db`.
+- `snapshot verify --deep` writes the decrypted database to
+  `vaultik-verify-*/snapshot.db`.
+- `snapshot create` writes a copy of the local index to
+  `vaultik-snapshot-*/snapshot.db`.
+
+These files are readable only by their owner, and are removed when the command
+ends. A `kill -9` or a power loss leaves them behind. Delete any leftover
+`vaultik-*` entry in the temporary directory yourself.
+
+Trust the temporary directory as much as the directory you restore into.
+
+### Commands need different permissions
+
+`snapshot create` needs only permission to write objects. Other commands need
+more:
+
+- `snapshot list`, `snapshot verify`, `snapshot restore` and `remote info` list
+  and read.
+- `snapshot purge`, `snapshot remove` and `remote nuke` list and delete.
+- `prune` lists, reads and deletes.
+
+`snapshot create --prune` runs a prune on the backed-up machine. That machine
+then holds credentials that can delete its own backups. To keep it to
+write-only credentials, run `prune` from a separate, trusted machine.
+
+### New recipients cannot read old data
+
+Changing `age_recipients` does not re-encrypt what is already stored. A chunk
+that is already stored is not written again, so it stays encrypted to the
+earlier recipients.
+
+A new snapshot that uses such chunks cannot be restored with a new recipient's
+key alone. To make everything readable by a new key, run
+`vaultik database delete` and take a full backup to a new destination.
+
+### X25519 recipients only
+
+`vaultik` accepts age X25519 public keys only. It rejects age SSH and plugin
+recipients.
+
+The encrypted data is held by a third party for a long time. There is no second
+kind of recipient to fall back on if X25519 is broken, and no post-quantum
+option.
+
+## Order of writes
+
+A backup writes in a fixed order:
+
+- the marker file
+- the blobs
+- `db.zst.age`
+- `manifest.json.zst`
+
+A snapshot's metadata is written only after all its blobs are uploaded. The
+manifest is written last. A directory under `metadata/` that has no manifest
+therefore belongs to a backup that did not finish.
+
+The local index marks a snapshot complete only after both metadata files are
+uploaded. A backup that stops during that upload leaves the snapshot
+unfinished. The next backup removes it from the local index and stores its data
+again.
+
+One short gap remains. A backup can stop after the upload and before the
+snapshot is marked complete. The destination then holds a snapshot that can be
+restored, and the local index does not list it. `snapshot list` shows it as
+remote only.
+
+An upload that is cut off leaves no partial object under the final name on S3
+or on a local directory. The same holds for an rclone remote that can move
+objects. An rclone remote that cannot move objects can keep a partial object.
+
+## Pruning
+
+`prune` deletes two kinds of object at the destination:
+
+- a blob that no manifest lists
+- a directory under `metadata/` that has no manifest
+
+It reads the manifests, which are not encrypted, so it needs no private key.
+
+These rules keep it from deleting data that is in use:
+
+- It keeps every blob that any manifest lists.
+- It deletes nothing when any manifest cannot be downloaded or decoded.
+- It deletes a blob only once the blob is older than `prune_grace_period`.
+- It deletes a directory only once every object in it is that old.
+- It keeps a directory whose snapshot is in the local index.
+- It leaves alone a directory whose name is not a remote key.
+
+`prune_grace_period` defaults to `24h`. It protects a backup that is still
+running. Such a backup has uploaded blobs and perhaps `db.zst.age`, but not yet
+its manifest. A prune from this machine or another keeps those objects, as long
+as no backup takes longer than the grace period.
+
+The grace period does not protect one case. A backup does not upload a blob
+that is already at the destination, so that blob keeps the time of its first
+upload. The blob can be left over from an earlier backup that stopped before
+its manifest. A prune that runs before the new manifest is written can then
+delete that blob. The new snapshot cannot be restored afterwards.
+
+To avoid this case, give each machine and each user its own destination.
+
+`remote nuke` applies none of these rules.
+
+## What a restore needs
+
+- the age private key
+- the snapshot's `db.zst.age`
+- the blobs that hold the files to restore
+
+A restore does not read the manifest and does not need the local index.
+
+It works in these steps:
+
+- It downloads and decrypts `db.zst.age`.
+- It checks that the database is the one for the snapshot that was asked for.
+- It downloads and decrypts the blobs it needs. It checks each blob against its
+  name.
+- It writes each file from its chunks.
+- It sets each file's permissions and times, and its owner when it runs as
+  root.

go.mod

@@ -1,28 +1,301 @@
-module git.eeqj.de/sneak/vaultik
+module sneak.berlin/go/vaultik
 
-go 1.24.4
+go 1.26.1
 
 require (
-	github.com/spf13/cobra v1.9.1
+	filippo.io/age v1.2.1
+	git.eeqj.de/sneak/smartconfig v1.0.0
+	github.com/adrg/xdg v0.5.3
+	github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2 v1.39.6
+	github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/config v1.31.17
+	github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/credentials v1.18.21
+	github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/feature/s3/manager v1.20.4
+	github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/s3 v1.90.0
+	github.com/aws/smithy-go v1.23.2
+	github.com/dustin/go-humanize v1.0.1
+	github.com/gobwas/glob v0.2.3
+	github.com/google/uuid v1.6.0
+	github.com/johannesboyne/gofakes3 v0.0.0-20250603205740-ed9094be7668
+	github.com/klauspost/compress v1.18.1
+	github.com/rclone/rclone v1.72.1
+	github.com/spf13/afero v1.15.0
+	github.com/spf13/cobra v1.10.1
+	github.com/spf13/pflag v1.0.10
+	github.com/stretchr/testify v1.11.1
+	go.uber.org/dig v1.19.0
 	go.uber.org/fx v1.24.0
+	golang.org/x/sync v0.18.0
+	golang.org/x/sys v0.38.0
+	golang.org/x/term v0.37.0
 	gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.1
 	modernc.org/sqlite v1.38.0
 )
 
 require (
-	github.com/dustin/go-humanize v1.0.1 // indirect
+	cloud.google.com/go/auth v0.17.0 // indirect
-	github.com/google/uuid v1.6.0 // indirect
+	cloud.google.com/go/auth/oauth2adapt v0.2.8 // indirect
+	cloud.google.com/go/compute/metadata v0.9.0 // indirect
+	cloud.google.com/go/iam v1.5.2 // indirect
+	cloud.google.com/go/secretmanager v1.15.0 // indirect
+	github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/sdk/azcore v1.20.0 // indirect
+	github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/sdk/azidentity v1.13.0 // indirect
+	github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/sdk/internal v1.11.2 // indirect
+	github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/sdk/keyvault/azsecrets v0.12.0 // indirect
+	github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/sdk/keyvault/internal v0.7.1 // indirect
+	github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/sdk/storage/azblob v1.6.3 // indirect
+	github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/sdk/storage/azfile v1.5.3 // indirect
+	github.com/Azure/go-ntlmssp v0.0.2-0.20251110135918-10b7b7e7cd26 // indirect
+	github.com/AzureAD/microsoft-authentication-library-for-go v1.6.0 // indirect
+	github.com/Files-com/files-sdk-go/v3 v3.2.264 // indirect
+	github.com/IBM/go-sdk-core/v5 v5.21.0 // indirect
+	github.com/Max-Sum/base32768 v0.0.0-20230304063302-18e6ce5945fd // indirect
+	github.com/Microsoft/go-winio v0.6.2 // indirect
+	github.com/ProtonMail/bcrypt v0.0.0-20211005172633-e235017c1baf // indirect
+	github.com/ProtonMail/gluon v0.17.1-0.20230724134000-308be39be96e // indirect
+	github.com/ProtonMail/go-crypto v1.3.0 // indirect
+	github.com/ProtonMail/go-mime v0.0.0-20230322103455-7d82a3887f2f // indirect
+	github.com/ProtonMail/go-srp v0.0.7 // indirect
+	github.com/ProtonMail/gopenpgp/v2 v2.9.0 // indirect
+	github.com/PuerkitoBio/goquery v1.10.3 // indirect
+	github.com/a1ex3/zstd-seekable-format-go/pkg v0.10.0 // indirect
+	github.com/abbot/go-http-auth v0.4.0 // indirect
+	github.com/anchore/go-lzo v0.1.0 // indirect
+	github.com/andybalholm/cascadia v1.3.3 // indirect
+	github.com/appscode/go-querystring v0.0.0-20170504095604-0126cfb3f1dc // indirect
+	github.com/armon/go-metrics v0.4.1 // indirect
+	github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go v1.44.256 // indirect
+	github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/aws/protocol/eventstream v1.7.3 // indirect
+	github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/feature/ec2/imds v1.18.13 // indirect
+	github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/internal/configsources v1.4.13 // indirect
+	github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/internal/endpoints/v2 v2.7.13 // indirect
+	github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/internal/ini v1.8.4 // indirect
+	github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/internal/v4a v1.4.13 // indirect
+	github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/internal/accept-encoding v1.13.3 // indirect
+	github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/internal/checksum v1.9.4 // indirect
+	github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/internal/presigned-url v1.13.13 // indirect
+	github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/internal/s3shared v1.19.13 // indirect
+	github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/secretsmanager v1.35.8 // indirect
+	github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/sso v1.30.1 // indirect
+	github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/ssooidc v1.35.5 // indirect
+	github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/sts v1.39.1 // indirect
+	github.com/bahlo/generic-list-go v0.2.0 // indirect
+	github.com/beorn7/perks v1.0.1 // indirect
+	github.com/boombuler/barcode v1.1.0 // indirect
+	github.com/bradenaw/juniper v0.15.3 // indirect
+	github.com/bradfitz/iter v0.0.0-20191230175014-e8f45d346db8 // indirect
+	github.com/buengese/sgzip v0.1.1 // indirect
+	github.com/buger/jsonparser v1.1.1 // indirect
+	github.com/calebcase/tmpfile v1.0.3 // indirect
+	github.com/cenkalti/backoff/v4 v4.3.0 // indirect
+	github.com/cespare/xxhash/v2 v2.3.0 // indirect
+	github.com/chilts/sid v0.0.0-20190607042430-660e94789ec9 // indirect
+	github.com/clipperhouse/stringish v0.1.1 // indirect
+	github.com/clipperhouse/uax29/v2 v2.3.0 // indirect
+	github.com/cloudflare/circl v1.6.1 // indirect
+	github.com/cloudinary/cloudinary-go/v2 v2.13.0 // indirect
+	github.com/cloudsoda/go-smb2 v0.0.0-20250228001242-d4c70e6251cc // indirect
+	github.com/cloudsoda/sddl v0.0.0-20250224235906-926454e91efc // indirect
+	github.com/colinmarc/hdfs/v2 v2.4.0 // indirect
+	github.com/coreos/go-semver v0.3.1 // indirect
+	github.com/coreos/go-systemd/v22 v22.6.0 // indirect
+	github.com/creasty/defaults v1.8.0 // indirect
+	github.com/cronokirby/saferith v0.33.0 // indirect
+	github.com/davecgh/go-spew v1.1.2-0.20180830191138-d8f796af33cc // indirect
+	github.com/diskfs/go-diskfs v1.7.0 // indirect
+	github.com/dropbox/dropbox-sdk-go-unofficial/v6 v6.0.5 // indirect
+	github.com/ebitengine/purego v0.9.1 // indirect
+	github.com/emersion/go-message v0.18.2 // indirect
+	github.com/emersion/go-vcard v0.0.0-20241024213814-c9703dde27ff // indirect
+	github.com/emicklei/go-restful/v3 v3.11.0 // indirect
+	github.com/fatih/color v1.16.0 // indirect
+	github.com/felixge/httpsnoop v1.0.4 // indirect
+	github.com/flynn/noise v1.1.0 // indirect
+	github.com/fxamacker/cbor/v2 v2.7.0 // indirect
+	github.com/gabriel-vasile/mimetype v1.4.11 // indirect
+	github.com/geoffgarside/ber v1.2.0 // indirect
+	github.com/go-chi/chi/v5 v5.2.3 // indirect
+	github.com/go-darwin/apfs v0.0.0-20211011131704-f84b94dbf348 // indirect
+	github.com/go-git/go-billy/v5 v5.6.2 // indirect
+	github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v4 v4.1.2 // indirect
+	github.com/go-logr/logr v1.4.3 // indirect
+	github.com/go-logr/stdr v1.2.2 // indirect
+	github.com/go-ole/go-ole v1.3.0 // indirect
+	github.com/go-openapi/errors v0.22.4 // indirect
+	github.com/go-openapi/jsonpointer v0.21.0 // indirect
+	github.com/go-openapi/jsonreference v0.20.2 // indirect
+	github.com/go-openapi/strfmt v0.25.0 // indirect
+	github.com/go-openapi/swag v0.23.0 // indirect
+	github.com/go-playground/locales v0.14.1 // indirect
+	github.com/go-playground/universal-translator v0.18.1 // indirect
+	github.com/go-playground/validator/v10 v10.28.0 // indirect
+	github.com/go-resty/resty/v2 v2.16.5 // indirect
+	github.com/go-viper/mapstructure/v2 v2.4.0 // indirect
+	github.com/gofrs/flock v0.13.0 // indirect
+	github.com/gogo/protobuf v1.3.2 // indirect
+	github.com/golang-jwt/jwt/v4 v4.5.2 // indirect
+	github.com/golang-jwt/jwt/v5 v5.3.0 // indirect
+	github.com/golang/protobuf v1.5.4 // indirect
+	github.com/google/btree v1.1.3 // indirect
+	github.com/google/gnostic-models v0.6.9 // indirect
+	github.com/google/go-cmp v0.7.0 // indirect
+	github.com/google/s2a-go v0.1.9 // indirect
+	github.com/googleapis/enterprise-certificate-proxy v0.3.7 // indirect
+	github.com/googleapis/gax-go/v2 v2.15.0 // indirect
+	github.com/gopherjs/gopherjs v1.17.2 // indirect
+	github.com/gorilla/schema v1.4.1 // indirect
+	github.com/grpc-ecosystem/grpc-gateway/v2 v2.26.3 // indirect
+	github.com/hashicorp/consul/api v1.32.1 // indirect
+	github.com/hashicorp/errwrap v1.1.0 // indirect
+	github.com/hashicorp/go-cleanhttp v0.5.2 // indirect
+	github.com/hashicorp/go-hclog v1.6.3 // indirect
+	github.com/hashicorp/go-immutable-radix v1.3.1 // indirect
+	github.com/hashicorp/go-multierror v1.1.1 // indirect
+	github.com/hashicorp/go-retryablehttp v0.7.8 // indirect
+	github.com/hashicorp/go-rootcerts v1.0.2 // indirect
+	github.com/hashicorp/go-secure-stdlib/parseutil v0.1.6 // indirect
+	github.com/hashicorp/go-secure-stdlib/strutil v0.1.2 // indirect
+	github.com/hashicorp/go-sockaddr v1.0.2 // indirect
+	github.com/hashicorp/go-uuid v1.0.3 // indirect
+	github.com/hashicorp/golang-lru v0.5.4 // indirect
+	github.com/hashicorp/hcl v1.0.1-vault-7 // indirect
+	github.com/hashicorp/serf v0.10.1 // indirect
+	github.com/hashicorp/vault/api v1.20.0 // indirect
+	github.com/henrybear327/Proton-API-Bridge v1.0.0 // indirect
+	github.com/henrybear327/go-proton-api v1.0.0 // indirect
 	github.com/inconshreveable/mousetrap v1.1.0 // indirect
+	github.com/jcmturner/aescts/v2 v2.0.0 // indirect
+	github.com/jcmturner/dnsutils/v2 v2.0.0 // indirect
+	github.com/jcmturner/gofork v1.7.6 // indirect
+	github.com/jcmturner/goidentity/v6 v6.0.1 // indirect
+	github.com/jcmturner/gokrb5/v8 v8.4.4 // indirect
+	github.com/jcmturner/rpc/v2 v2.0.3 // indirect
+	github.com/jlaffaye/ftp v0.2.1-0.20240918233326-1b970516f5d3 // indirect
+	github.com/josharian/intern v1.0.0 // indirect
+	github.com/json-iterator/go v1.1.12 // indirect
+	github.com/jtolds/gls v4.20.0+incompatible // indirect
+	github.com/jtolio/noiseconn v0.0.0-20231127013910-f6d9ecbf1de7 // indirect
+	github.com/jzelinskie/whirlpool v0.0.0-20201016144138-0675e54bb004 // indirect
+	github.com/klauspost/cpuid/v2 v2.3.0 // indirect
+	github.com/koofr/go-httpclient v0.0.0-20240520111329-e20f8f203988 // indirect
+	github.com/koofr/go-koofrclient v0.0.0-20221207135200-cbd7fc9ad6a6 // indirect
+	github.com/kr/fs v0.1.0 // indirect
+	github.com/kylelemons/godebug v1.1.0 // indirect
+	github.com/lanrat/extsort v1.4.2 // indirect
+	github.com/leodido/go-urn v1.4.0 // indirect
+	github.com/lpar/date v1.0.0 // indirect
+	github.com/lufia/plan9stats v0.0.0-20251013123823-9fd1530e3ec3 // indirect
+	github.com/mailru/easyjson v0.9.1 // indirect
+	github.com/mattn/go-colorable v0.1.14 // indirect
 	github.com/mattn/go-isatty v0.0.20 // indirect
+	github.com/mattn/go-runewidth v0.0.19 // indirect
+	github.com/mitchellh/go-homedir v1.1.0 // indirect
+	github.com/mitchellh/mapstructure v1.5.0 // indirect
+	github.com/modern-go/concurrent v0.0.0-20180306012644-bacd9c7ef1dd // indirect
+	github.com/modern-go/reflect2 v1.0.2 // indirect
+	github.com/munnerz/goautoneg v0.0.0-20191010083416-a7dc8b61c822 // indirect
 	github.com/ncruces/go-strftime v0.1.9 // indirect
+	github.com/ncw/swift/v2 v2.0.5 // indirect
+	github.com/oklog/ulid v1.3.1 // indirect
+	github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2 v2.23.3 // indirect
+	github.com/oracle/oci-go-sdk/v65 v65.104.0 // indirect
+	github.com/panjf2000/ants/v2 v2.11.3 // indirect
+	github.com/patrickmn/go-cache v2.1.0+incompatible // indirect
+	github.com/pengsrc/go-shared v0.2.1-0.20190131101655-1999055a4a14 // indirect
+	github.com/peterh/liner v1.2.2 // indirect
+	github.com/pierrec/lz4/v4 v4.1.22 // indirect
+	github.com/pkg/browser v0.0.0-20240102092130-5ac0b6a4141c // indirect
+	github.com/pkg/errors v0.9.1 // indirect
+	github.com/pkg/sftp v1.13.10 // indirect
+	github.com/pkg/xattr v0.4.12 // indirect
+	github.com/pmezard/go-difflib v1.0.1-0.20181226105442-5d4384ee4fb2 // indirect
+	github.com/power-devops/perfstat v0.0.0-20240221224432-82ca36839d55 // indirect
+	github.com/pquerna/otp v1.5.0 // indirect
+	github.com/prometheus/client_golang v1.23.2 // indirect
+	github.com/prometheus/client_model v0.6.2 // indirect
+	github.com/prometheus/common v0.67.2 // indirect
+	github.com/prometheus/procfs v0.19.2 // indirect
+	github.com/putdotio/go-putio/putio v0.0.0-20200123120452-16d982cac2b8 // indirect
+	github.com/relvacode/iso8601 v1.7.0 // indirect
 	github.com/remyoudompheng/bigfft v0.0.0-20230129092748-24d4a6f8daec // indirect
-	github.com/spf13/pflag v1.0.6 // indirect
+	github.com/rfjakob/eme v1.1.2 // indirect
-	go.uber.org/dig v1.19.0 // indirect
+	github.com/ryanuber/go-glob v1.0.0 // indirect
-	go.uber.org/multierr v1.10.0 // indirect
+	github.com/ryszard/goskiplist v0.0.0-20150312221310-2dfbae5fcf46 // indirect
-	go.uber.org/zap v1.26.0 // indirect
+	github.com/sabhiram/go-gitignore v0.0.0-20210923224102-525f6e181f06 // indirect
-	golang.org/x/exp v0.0.0-20250408133849-7e4ce0ab07d0 // indirect
+	github.com/samber/lo v1.52.0 // indirect
-	golang.org/x/sys v0.33.0 // indirect
+	github.com/shirou/gopsutil/v4 v4.25.10 // indirect
+	github.com/sirupsen/logrus v1.9.4-0.20230606125235-dd1b4c2e81af // indirect
+	github.com/skratchdot/open-golang v0.0.0-20200116055534-eef842397966 // indirect
+	github.com/smarty/assertions v1.16.0 // indirect
+	github.com/sony/gobreaker v1.0.0 // indirect
+	github.com/spacemonkeygo/monkit/v3 v3.0.25-0.20251022131615-eb24eb109368 // indirect
+	github.com/t3rm1n4l/go-mega v0.0.0-20251031123324-a804aaa87491 // indirect
+	github.com/tidwall/gjson v1.18.0 // indirect
+	github.com/tidwall/match v1.1.1 // indirect
+	github.com/tidwall/pretty v1.2.0 // indirect
+	github.com/tklauser/go-sysconf v0.3.15 // indirect
+	github.com/tklauser/numcpus v0.10.0 // indirect
+	github.com/ulikunitz/xz v0.5.15 // indirect
+	github.com/unknwon/goconfig v1.0.0 // indirect
+	github.com/wk8/go-ordered-map/v2 v2.1.8 // indirect
+	github.com/x448/float16 v0.8.4 // indirect
+	github.com/xanzy/ssh-agent v0.3.3 // indirect
+	github.com/youmark/pkcs8 v0.0.0-20240726163527-a2c0da244d78 // indirect
+	github.com/yunify/qingstor-sdk-go/v3 v3.2.0 // indirect
+	github.com/yusufpapurcu/wmi v1.2.4 // indirect
+	github.com/zeebo/blake3 v0.2.4 // indirect
+	github.com/zeebo/errs v1.4.0 // indirect
+	github.com/zeebo/xxh3 v1.0.2 // indirect
+	go.etcd.io/bbolt v1.4.3 // indirect
+	go.etcd.io/etcd/api/v3 v3.6.2 // indirect
+	go.etcd.io/etcd/client/pkg/v3 v3.6.2 // indirect
+	go.etcd.io/etcd/client/v3 v3.6.2 // indirect
+	go.mongodb.org/mongo-driver v1.17.6 // indirect
+	go.opentelemetry.io/auto/sdk v1.2.1 // indirect
+	go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/instrumentation/google.golang.org/grpc/otelgrpc v0.61.0 // indirect
+	go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/instrumentation/net/http/otelhttp v0.63.0 // indirect
+	go.opentelemetry.io/otel v1.38.0 // indirect
+	go.opentelemetry.io/otel/metric v1.38.0 // indirect
+	go.opentelemetry.io/otel/trace v1.38.0 // indirect
+	go.shabbyrobe.org/gocovmerge v0.0.0-20230507111327-fa4f82cfbf4d // indirect
+	go.uber.org/multierr v1.11.0 // indirect
+	go.uber.org/zap v1.27.0 // indirect
+	go.yaml.in/yaml/v2 v2.4.3 // indirect
+	golang.org/x/crypto v0.45.0 // indirect
+	golang.org/x/exp v0.0.0-20251023183803-a4bb9ffd2546 // indirect
+	golang.org/x/net v0.47.0 // indirect
+	golang.org/x/oauth2 v0.33.0 // indirect
+	golang.org/x/text v0.31.0 // indirect
+	golang.org/x/time v0.14.0 // indirect
+	golang.org/x/tools v0.38.0 // indirect
+	google.golang.org/api v0.255.0 // indirect
+	google.golang.org/genproto v0.0.0-20250603155806-513f23925822 // indirect
+	google.golang.org/genproto/googleapis/api v0.0.0-20250804133106-a7a43d27e69b // indirect
+	google.golang.org/genproto/googleapis/rpc v0.0.0-20251103181224-f26f9409b101 // indirect
+	google.golang.org/grpc v1.76.0 // indirect
+	google.golang.org/protobuf v1.36.10 // indirect
+	gopkg.in/evanphx/json-patch.v4 v4.12.0 // indirect
+	gopkg.in/inf.v0 v0.9.1 // indirect
+	gopkg.in/natefinch/lumberjack.v2 v2.2.1 // indirect
+	gopkg.in/validator.v2 v2.0.1 // indirect
+	gopkg.in/yaml.v2 v2.4.0 // indirect
+	k8s.io/api v0.33.3 // indirect
+	k8s.io/apimachinery v0.33.3 // indirect
+	k8s.io/client-go v0.33.3 // indirect
+	k8s.io/klog/v2 v2.130.1 // indirect
+	k8s.io/kube-openapi v0.0.0-20250318190949-c8a335a9a2ff // indirect
+	k8s.io/utils v0.0.0-20241104100929-3ea5e8cea738 // indirect
 	modernc.org/libc v1.65.10 // indirect
 	modernc.org/mathutil v1.7.1 // indirect
 	modernc.org/memory v1.11.0 // indirect
+	moul.io/http2curl/v2 v2.3.0 // indirect
+	sigs.k8s.io/json v0.0.0-20241010143419-9aa6b5e7a4b3 // indirect
+	sigs.k8s.io/randfill v1.0.0 // indirect
+	sigs.k8s.io/structured-merge-diff/v4 v4.6.0 // indirect
+	sigs.k8s.io/yaml v1.6.0 // indirect
+	storj.io/common v0.0.0-20251107171817-6221ae45072c // indirect
+	storj.io/drpc v0.0.35-0.20250513201419-f7819ea69b55 // indirect
+	storj.io/eventkit v0.0.0-20250410172343-61f26d3de156 // indirect
+	storj.io/infectious v0.0.2 // indirect
+	storj.io/picobuf v0.0.4 // indirect
+	storj.io/uplink v1.13.1 // indirect
 )

internal/blob/errors.go

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+package blob
+
+import "errors"
+
+// ErrBlobSizeLimitExceeded is returned when adding a chunk would exceed
+// the blob size limit.
+var ErrBlobSizeLimitExceeded = errors.New("adding chunk would exceed blob size limit")
+
+// ErrNoRecipients is returned when a Packer is created without any age
+// recipients; blobs must always be encrypted.
+var ErrNoRecipients = errors.New("recipients are required - blobs must be encrypted")
+
+// ErrInvalidMaxBlobSize is returned when the configured maximum blob size
+// is zero or negative.
+var ErrInvalidMaxBlobSize = errors.New("max blob size must be positive")
+
+// ErrNoFilesystem is returned when a Packer is created without a filesystem
+// for temporary files.
+var ErrNoFilesystem = errors.New("filesystem is required")

internal/blob/packer.go

@@ -0,0 +1,655 @@
+// Package blob handles the creation of blobs - the final storage units for Vaultik.
+// A blob is a large file (up to 10GB) containing many compressed and encrypted chunks
+// from multiple source files. Blobs are content-addressed: a blob's filename is
+// hex(SHA256(SHA256(uncompressed blob contents))), computed from the concatenated
+// chunk data before compression and encryption, not from the stored bytes. See
+// blobgen.DoubleSHA256 and docs/REPOSTRUCTURE.md.
+//
+// The blob creation process:
+//  1. Chunks are accumulated from multiple files
+//  2. Each chunk's uncompressed bytes are fed to a running SHA-256 and, in the same
+//     pass, compressed with zstd and encrypted with age into the temp file
+//  3. On finalize, the name is the double SHA-256 of that uncompressed content
+//  4. The blob is uploaded to S3 using the name as the filename
+//
+// This design optimizes storage efficiency by batching many small chunks into
+// larger blobs, reducing the number of S3 operations and associated costs.
+package blob
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"database/sql"
+	"encoding/hex"
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"io"
+	"sync"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/google/uuid"
+	"github.com/spf13/afero"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/blobgen"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/database"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/log"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/types"
+)
+
+// Handler is a callback function invoked when a blob is finalized and
+// ready for upload. The handler receives a WithReader containing the
+// blob metadata and a reader for the compressed and encrypted blob content.
+// The handler is responsible for uploading the blob to storage and cleaning
+// up any temporary files.
+type Handler func(blob *WithReader) error
+
+// PackerConfig holds configuration for creating a Packer.
+// All fields except BlobHandler are required.
+type PackerConfig struct {
+	// MaxBlobSize is the maximum size of a blob before forcing finalization.
+	MaxBlobSize int64
+	// CompressionLevel is the zstd level (1-19, higher = better compression).
+	CompressionLevel int
+	// Recipients holds the age recipients for encryption.
+	Recipients []string
+	// Repositories provides database access for tracking blob metadata.
+	Repositories *database.Repositories
+	// BlobHandler is an optional callback when a blob is ready for upload.
+	BlobHandler Handler
+	// Fs is the filesystem used for temporary files.
+	Fs afero.Fs
+}
+
+// PendingChunk represents a chunk waiting to be inserted into the database.
+type PendingChunk struct {
+	Hash string
+	Size int64
+}
+
+// Packer accumulates chunks and packs them into blobs.
+// It handles compression, encryption, and coordination with the database
+// to track blob metadata. Packer is thread-safe.
+type Packer struct {
+	maxBlobSize      int64
+	compressionLevel int
+	recipients       []string               // Age recipients for encryption
+	blobHandler      Handler                // Called when blob is ready
+	repos            *database.Repositories // For creating blob records
+	fs               afero.Fs               // Filesystem for temporary files
+
+	// Mutex for thread-safe blob creation
+	mu sync.Mutex
+
+	// Current blob being packed
+	currentBlob   *blobInProgress
+	finishedBlobs []*FinishedBlob // Only used if no handler provided
+
+	// Pending chunks to be inserted when blob finalizes
+	pendingChunks []PendingChunk
+}
+
+// blobInProgress represents a blob being assembled
+type blobInProgress struct {
+	id        string          // UUID of the blob
+	chunks    []*chunkInfo    // Track chunk metadata
+	chunkSet  map[string]bool // Track unique chunks in this blob
+	tempFile  afero.File      // Temporary file for encrypted compressed data
+	writer    *blobgen.Writer // Unified compression/encryption/hashing writer
+	startTime time.Time
+	size      int64 // Current uncompressed size
+}
+
+// ChunkRef represents a chunk to be added to a blob.
+// The Hash is the content-addressed identifier (SHA256) of the chunk,
+// and Data contains the raw chunk bytes. After adding to a blob,
+// the Data can be safely discarded as it's written to the blob immediately.
+type ChunkRef struct {
+	Hash string // SHA256 hash of the chunk data
+	Data []byte // Raw chunk content
+}
+
+// chunkInfo tracks chunk metadata in a blob
+type chunkInfo struct {
+	Hash   string
+	Offset int64
+	Size   int64
+}
+
+// FinishedBlob represents a completed blob ready for storage
+type FinishedBlob struct {
+	ID           string
+	Hash         string
+	Data         []byte // Compressed data
+	Chunks       []*ChunkPosition
+	CreatedTS    time.Time
+	Uncompressed int64
+	Compressed   int64
+}
+
+// ChunkPosition represents a chunk's position within a blob
+type ChunkPosition struct {
+	ChunkHash string
+	Offset    int64
+	Length    int64
+}
+
+// WithReader wraps a FinishedBlob with its data reader
+type WithReader struct {
+	*FinishedBlob
+
+	Reader              io.ReadSeeker
+	TempFile            afero.File // Optional, only set for disk-based blobs
+	InsertedChunkHashes []string   // Chunk hashes that were inserted to DB with this blob
+}
+
+// NewPacker creates a new blob packer that accumulates chunks into blobs.
+// The packer will automatically finalize blobs when they reach MaxBlobSize.
+// Returns an error if required configuration fields are missing or invalid.
+func NewPacker(cfg PackerConfig) (*Packer, error) {
+	if len(cfg.Recipients) == 0 {
+		return nil, ErrNoRecipients
+	}
+
+	if cfg.MaxBlobSize <= 0 {
+		return nil, ErrInvalidMaxBlobSize
+	}
+
+	if cfg.Fs == nil {
+		return nil, ErrNoFilesystem
+	}
+
+	return &Packer{
+		maxBlobSize:      cfg.MaxBlobSize,
+		compressionLevel: cfg.CompressionLevel,
+		recipients:       cfg.Recipients,
+		blobHandler:      cfg.BlobHandler,
+		repos:            cfg.Repositories,
+		fs:               cfg.Fs,
+		finishedBlobs:    make([]*FinishedBlob, 0),
+	}, nil
+}
+
+// SetBlobHandler sets the handler to be called when a blob is finalized.
+// The handler is responsible for uploading the blob to storage.
+// If no handler is set, finalized blobs are stored in memory and can be
+// retrieved with GetFinishedBlobs().
+func (p *Packer) SetBlobHandler(handler Handler) {
+	p.mu.Lock()
+	defer p.mu.Unlock()
+
+	p.blobHandler = handler
+}
+
+// AddPendingChunk queues a chunk to be inserted into the database when the
+// current blob is finalized. This batches chunk inserts to reduce transaction
+// overhead. Thread-safe.
+func (p *Packer) AddPendingChunk(hash string, size int64) {
+	p.mu.Lock()
+	defer p.mu.Unlock()
+
+	p.pendingChunks = append(p.pendingChunks, PendingChunk{Hash: hash, Size: size})
+}
+
+// AddChunk adds a chunk to the current blob being packed.
+// If adding the chunk would exceed MaxBlobSize, returns ErrBlobSizeLimitExceeded.
+// In this case, the caller should finalize the current blob and retry.
+// The chunk data is written immediately and can be garbage collected after this call.
+// Thread-safe.
+func (p *Packer) AddChunk(ctx context.Context, chunk *ChunkRef) error {
+	p.mu.Lock()
+	defer p.mu.Unlock()
+
+	// Initialize new blob if needed
+	if p.currentBlob == nil {
+		err := p.startNewBlob(ctx)
+		if err != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("starting new blob: %w", err)
+		}
+	}
+
+	// Check if adding this chunk would exceed blob size limit
+	// Use conservative estimate: assume no compression
+	// Skip size check if chunk already exists in blob
+	if !p.currentBlob.chunkSet[chunk.Hash] {
+		currentSize := p.currentBlob.size
+		newSize := currentSize + int64(len(chunk.Data))
+
+		if newSize > p.maxBlobSize && len(p.currentBlob.chunks) > 0 {
+			// Return error indicating size limit would be exceeded
+			return ErrBlobSizeLimitExceeded
+		}
+	}
+
+	// Add chunk to current blob
+	err := p.addChunkToCurrentBlob(chunk)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	return nil
+}
+
+// Flush finalizes any in-progress blob, compressing, encrypting, and hashing it.
+// This should be called after all chunks have been added to ensure no data is lost.
+// If a BlobHandler is set, it will be called with the finalized blob.
+// Thread-safe.
+func (p *Packer) Flush(ctx context.Context) error {
+	p.mu.Lock()
+	defer p.mu.Unlock()
+
+	if p.currentBlob != nil && len(p.currentBlob.chunks) > 0 {
+		err := p.finalizeCurrentBlob(ctx)
+		if err != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("finalizing blob: %w", err)
+		}
+	}
+
+	return nil
+}
+
+// DiscardCurrentBlob closes and removes the temp file of the blob being
+// packed, if any, and drops that blob. A caller that stops before Flush
+// must call it, or the temp file is left behind. Thread-safe.
+func (p *Packer) DiscardCurrentBlob() {
+	p.mu.Lock()
+	defer p.mu.Unlock()
+
+	p.cleanupTempFile()
+	p.currentBlob = nil
+}
+
+// FinalizeBlob finalizes the current blob being assembled.
+// This compresses the accumulated chunks, encrypts the result, and computes
+// the content-addressed hash. The finalized blob is either passed to the
+// BlobHandler (if set) or stored internally.
+// Caller must handle retrying any chunk that triggered size limit exceeded.
+// Not thread-safe - caller must hold the lock.
+func (p *Packer) FinalizeBlob(ctx context.Context) error {
+	p.mu.Lock()
+	defer p.mu.Unlock()
+
+	if p.currentBlob == nil {
+		return nil
+	}
+
+	return p.finalizeCurrentBlob(ctx)
+}
+
+// GetFinishedBlobs returns all completed blobs and clears the internal list.
+// This is only used when no BlobHandler is set. After calling this method,
+// the caller is responsible for uploading the blobs to storage.
+// Thread-safe.
+func (p *Packer) GetFinishedBlobs() []*FinishedBlob {
+	p.mu.Lock()
+	defer p.mu.Unlock()
+
+	blobs := p.finishedBlobs
+	p.finishedBlobs = make([]*FinishedBlob, 0)
+
+	return blobs
+}
+
+// PackChunks is a convenience method to pack multiple chunks at once.
+func (p *Packer) PackChunks(ctx context.Context, chunks []*ChunkRef) error {
+	for _, chunk := range chunks {
+		err := p.AddChunk(ctx, chunk)
+		if errors.Is(err, ErrBlobSizeLimitExceeded) {
+			// Finalize current blob and retry
+			err = p.FinalizeBlob(ctx)
+			if err != nil {
+				return fmt.Errorf("finalizing blob before retry: %w", err)
+			}
+
+			// Retry the chunk
+			err = p.AddChunk(ctx, chunk)
+			if err != nil {
+				return fmt.Errorf(
+					"adding chunk %s after finalize: %w", chunk.Hash, err)
+			}
+		} else if err != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("adding chunk %s: %w", chunk.Hash, err)
+		}
+	}
+
+	return p.Flush(ctx)
+}
+
+// startNewBlob initializes a new blob (must be called with lock held)
+func (p *Packer) startNewBlob(ctx context.Context) error {
+	// Generate UUID for the blob
+	blobID := uuid.New().String()
+
+	// Create blob record in database
+	if p.repos != nil {
+		blobIDTyped, err := types.ParseBlobID(blobID)
+		if err != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("parsing blob ID: %w", err)
+		}
+
+		blob := &database.Blob{
+			ID: blobIDTyped,
+			// Temporary placeholder hash until finalized.
+			Hash:             types.BlobHash("temp-placeholder-" + blobID),
+			CreatedTS:        time.Now().UTC(),
+			FinishedTS:       nil,
+			UncompressedSize: 0,
+			CompressedSize:   0,
+			UploadedTS:       nil,
+		}
+
+		err = p.repos.WithTx(
+			ctx,
+			func(txCtx context.Context, tx *sql.Tx) error {
+				return p.repos.Blobs.Create(txCtx, tx, blob)
+			})
+		if err != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("creating blob record: %w", err)
+		}
+	}
+
+	// Create temporary file
+	tempFile, err := afero.TempFile(p.fs, "", "vaultik-blob-*.tmp")
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("creating temp file: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	// Create blobgen writer for unified compression/encryption/hashing
+	writer, err := blobgen.NewWriter(tempFile, p.compressionLevel, p.recipients)
+	if err != nil {
+		_ = tempFile.Close()
+		_ = p.fs.Remove(tempFile.Name())
+
+		return fmt.Errorf("creating blobgen writer: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	p.currentBlob = &blobInProgress{
+		id:        blobID,
+		chunks:    make([]*chunkInfo, 0),
+		chunkSet:  make(map[string]bool),
+		startTime: time.Now().UTC(),
+		tempFile:  tempFile,
+		writer:    writer,
+		size:      0,
+	}
+
+	log.Debug("Created new blob container",
+		"blob_id", blobID, "temp_file", tempFile.Name())
+
+	return nil
+}
+
+// addChunkToCurrentBlob adds a chunk to the current blob (must be called
+// with lock held).
+func (p *Packer) addChunkToCurrentBlob(chunk *ChunkRef) error {
+	// Skip if chunk already in current blob
+	if p.currentBlob.chunkSet[chunk.Hash] {
+		log.Debug("Skipping duplicate chunk already in current blob",
+			"chunk_hash", chunk.Hash)
+
+		return nil
+	}
+
+	// Track offset before writing
+	offset := p.currentBlob.size
+
+	// Write to the blobgen writer (compression -> encryption -> disk)
+	_, err := p.currentBlob.writer.Write(chunk.Data)
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("writing to blob stream: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	// Track chunk info
+	chunkSize := int64(len(chunk.Data))
+	chunkInfo := &chunkInfo{
+		Hash:   chunk.Hash,
+		Offset: offset,
+		Size:   chunkSize,
+	}
+	p.currentBlob.chunks = append(p.currentBlob.chunks, chunkInfo)
+	p.currentBlob.chunkSet[chunk.Hash] = true
+
+	// Note: blob_chunk records are inserted in batch when blob is finalized
+	// to reduce transaction overhead. The chunk info is already stored in
+	// p.currentBlob.chunks for later insertion.
+
+	// Update total size
+	p.currentBlob.size += chunkSize
+
+	log.Debug("Added chunk to blob container",
+		"blob_id", p.currentBlob.id,
+		"chunk_hash", chunk.Hash,
+		"chunk_size", len(chunk.Data),
+		"offset", offset,
+		"blob_chunks", len(p.currentBlob.chunks),
+		"uncompressed_size", p.currentBlob.size)
+
+	return nil
+}
+
+// finalizeCurrentBlob completes the current blob (must be called with lock held)
+func (p *Packer) finalizeCurrentBlob(ctx context.Context) error {
+	if p.currentBlob == nil {
+		return nil
+	}
+
+	blobHash, finalSize, err := p.closeBlobWriter()
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	chunkRefs := p.buildChunkRefs()
+
+	chunksToInsert := p.pendingChunks
+	p.pendingChunks = nil
+
+	err = p.commitBlobToDatabase(ctx, blobHash, finalSize, chunksToInsert)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	finished := &FinishedBlob{
+		ID:           p.currentBlob.id,
+		Hash:         blobHash,
+		Chunks:       chunkRefs,
+		CreatedTS:    p.currentBlob.startTime,
+		Uncompressed: p.currentBlob.size,
+		Compressed:   finalSize,
+	}
+
+	compressionRatio := float64(finished.Compressed) / float64(finished.Uncompressed)
+	log.Info("Finalized blob (compressed and encrypted)",
+		"hash", blobHash, "chunks", len(chunkRefs),
+		"uncompressed", finished.Uncompressed, "compressed", finished.Compressed,
+		"ratio", fmt.Sprintf("%.2f", compressionRatio),
+		"duration", time.Since(p.currentBlob.startTime))
+
+	var insertedChunkHashes []string
+	for _, chunk := range chunksToInsert {
+		insertedChunkHashes = append(insertedChunkHashes, chunk.Hash)
+	}
+
+	return p.deliverFinishedBlob(finished, insertedChunkHashes)
+}
+
+// closeBlobWriter closes the writer, syncs to disk, and returns the blob
+// hash and final size.
+func (p *Packer) closeBlobWriter() (string, int64, error) {
+	err := p.currentBlob.writer.Close()
+	if err != nil {
+		p.cleanupTempFile()
+
+		return "", 0, fmt.Errorf("closing blobgen writer: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	err = p.currentBlob.tempFile.Sync()
+	if err != nil {
+		p.cleanupTempFile()
+
+		return "", 0, fmt.Errorf("syncing temp file: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	finalSize, err := p.currentBlob.tempFile.Seek(0, io.SeekCurrent)
+	if err != nil {
+		p.cleanupTempFile()
+
+		return "", 0, fmt.Errorf("getting file size: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	_, err = p.currentBlob.tempFile.Seek(0, io.SeekStart)
+	if err != nil {
+		p.cleanupTempFile()
+
+		return "", 0, fmt.Errorf("seeking to start: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	finalHash := p.currentBlob.writer.ContentID()
+
+	return hex.EncodeToString(finalHash), finalSize, nil
+}
+
+// buildChunkRefs creates ChunkPosition entries from the current blob's chunks
+func (p *Packer) buildChunkRefs() []*ChunkPosition {
+	refs := make([]*ChunkPosition, 0, len(p.currentBlob.chunks))
+	for _, chunk := range p.currentBlob.chunks {
+		refs = append(refs, &ChunkPosition{
+			ChunkHash: chunk.Hash, Offset: chunk.Offset, Length: chunk.Size,
+		})
+	}
+
+	return refs
+}
+
+// commitBlobToDatabase inserts pending chunks, blob_chunks, and updates the blob record
+func (p *Packer) commitBlobToDatabase(
+	ctx context.Context,
+	blobHash string, finalSize int64, chunksToInsert []PendingChunk,
+) error {
+	if p.repos == nil {
+		return nil
+	}
+
+	blobIDTyped, parseErr := types.ParseBlobID(p.currentBlob.id)
+	if parseErr != nil {
+		p.cleanupTempFile()
+
+		return fmt.Errorf("parsing blob ID: %w", parseErr)
+	}
+
+	err := p.repos.WithTx(
+		ctx,
+		func(txCtx context.Context, tx *sql.Tx) error {
+			return p.insertBlobRecords(txCtx, tx, blobIDTyped, blobHash,
+				finalSize, chunksToInsert)
+		})
+	if err != nil {
+		p.cleanupTempFile()
+
+		return fmt.Errorf("finalizing blob transaction: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	log.Debug("Committed blob transaction",
+		"chunks_inserted", len(chunksToInsert),
+		"blob_chunks_inserted", len(p.currentBlob.chunks))
+
+	return nil
+}
+
+// insertBlobRecords inserts pending chunks and blob_chunk rows, then marks
+// the blob finished, all within the supplied transaction.
+func (p *Packer) insertBlobRecords(
+	ctx context.Context,
+	tx *sql.Tx,
+	blobIDTyped types.BlobID,
+	blobHash string,
+	finalSize int64,
+	chunksToInsert []PendingChunk,
+) error {
+	for _, chunk := range chunksToInsert {
+		dbChunk := &database.Chunk{
+			ChunkHash: types.ChunkHash(chunk.Hash), Size: chunk.Size,
+		}
+
+		err := p.repos.Chunks.Create(ctx, tx, dbChunk)
+		if err != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("creating chunk: %w", err)
+		}
+	}
+
+	for _, chunk := range p.currentBlob.chunks {
+		blobChunk := &database.BlobChunk{
+			BlobID: blobIDTyped, ChunkHash: types.ChunkHash(chunk.Hash),
+			Offset: chunk.Offset, Length: chunk.Size,
+		}
+
+		err := p.repos.BlobChunks.Create(ctx, tx, blobChunk)
+		if err != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("creating blob_chunk: %w", err)
+		}
+	}
+
+	return p.repos.Blobs.UpdateFinished(ctx, tx, p.currentBlob.id, blobHash,
+		p.currentBlob.size, finalSize)
+}
+
+// deliverFinishedBlob passes the blob to the handler or stores it internally
+func (p *Packer) deliverFinishedBlob(
+	finished *FinishedBlob, insertedChunkHashes []string,
+) error {
+	if p.blobHandler != nil {
+		_, err := p.currentBlob.tempFile.Seek(0, io.SeekStart)
+		if err != nil {
+			p.cleanupTempFile()
+
+			return fmt.Errorf("seeking for handler: %w", err)
+		}
+
+		blobWithReader := &WithReader{
+			FinishedBlob:        finished,
+			Reader:              p.currentBlob.tempFile,
+			TempFile:            p.currentBlob.tempFile,
+			InsertedChunkHashes: insertedChunkHashes,
+		}
+
+		err = p.blobHandler(blobWithReader)
+		if err != nil {
+			p.cleanupTempFile()
+
+			return fmt.Errorf("blob handler failed: %w", err)
+		}
+
+		p.currentBlob = nil
+
+		return nil
+	}
+
+	// No handler - read data for legacy behavior
+	log.Debug("No blob handler callback configured", "blob_hash", finished.Hash[:8]+"...")
+
+	_, err := p.currentBlob.tempFile.Seek(0, io.SeekStart)
+	if err != nil {
+		p.cleanupTempFile()
+
+		return fmt.Errorf("seeking to read data: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	data, err := io.ReadAll(p.currentBlob.tempFile)
+	if err != nil {
+		p.cleanupTempFile()
+
+		return fmt.Errorf("reading blob data: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	finished.Data = data
+	p.finishedBlobs = append(p.finishedBlobs, finished)
+	p.cleanupTempFile()
+	p.currentBlob = nil
+
+	return nil
+}
+
+// cleanupTempFile removes the temporary file
+func (p *Packer) cleanupTempFile() {
+	if p.currentBlob != nil && p.currentBlob.tempFile != nil {
+		name := p.currentBlob.tempFile.Name()
+		_ = p.currentBlob.tempFile.Close()
+		_ = p.fs.Remove(name)
+	}
+}

internal/blob/packer_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,318 @@
+package blob_test
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"context"
+	"crypto/sha256"
+	"database/sql"
+	"encoding/hex"
+	"errors"
+	"io"
+	"testing"
+
+	"filippo.io/age"
+	"github.com/klauspost/compress/zstd"
+	"github.com/spf13/afero"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/blob"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/database"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/log"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/types"
+)
+
+const (
+	// Test key from test/insecure-integration-test.key
+	testPrivateKey = "AGE-SECRET-KEY-19CR5YSFW59HM4TLD6GXVEDMZFTVVF7PPHKUT68TXSFPK7A" +
+		"PHXA2QS2NJA5"
+	testPublicKey = "age1ezrjmfpwsc95svdg0y54mums3zevgzu0x0ecq2f7tp8a05gl0sjq9q9wjg"
+
+	defaultMaxBlobSize = 10 * 1024 * 1024 // 10MB
+	testChunkSize      = 1000
+	testChunkCount     = 10
+)
+
+// parseTestIdentity parses the fixed test age identity.
+func parseTestIdentity(t *testing.T) *age.X25519Identity {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	identity, err := age.ParseX25519Identity(testPrivateKey)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to parse test identity: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	return identity
+}
+
+// newTestPacker creates a test database and a Packer backed by it.
+func newTestPacker(
+	t *testing.T, maxBlobSize int64,
+) (*database.Repositories, *blob.Packer) {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	db, err := database.NewTestDB()
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to create test db: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	t.Cleanup(func() { _ = db.Close() })
+
+	repos := database.NewRepositories(db)
+
+	packer, err := blob.NewPacker(blob.PackerConfig{
+		MaxBlobSize:      maxBlobSize,
+		CompressionLevel: 3,
+		Recipients:       []string{testPublicKey},
+		Repositories:     repos,
+		Fs:               afero.NewMemMapFs(),
+	})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to create packer: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	return repos, packer
+}
+
+// makeChunk creates a ChunkRef for data and registers the chunk in the
+// database.
+func makeChunk(
+	t *testing.T, repos *database.Repositories, data []byte,
+) *blob.ChunkRef {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	hash := sha256.Sum256(data)
+	hashStr := hex.EncodeToString(hash[:])
+
+	dbChunk := &database.Chunk{
+		ChunkHash: types.ChunkHash(hashStr),
+		Size:      int64(len(data)),
+	}
+
+	err := repos.WithTx(
+		context.Background(),
+		func(ctx context.Context, tx *sql.Tx) error {
+			return repos.Chunks.Create(ctx, tx, dbChunk)
+		})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to create chunk in db: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	return &blob.ChunkRef{
+		Hash: hashStr,
+		Data: data,
+	}
+}
+
+// decryptAndDecompress reverses the blob pipeline: age decrypt, then zstd
+// decompress.
+func decryptAndDecompress(
+	t *testing.T, blobData []byte, identity *age.X25519Identity,
+) []byte {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	decrypted, err := age.Decrypt(bytes.NewReader(blobData), identity)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to decrypt blob: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	reader, err := zstd.NewReader(decrypted)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to create decompressor: %v", err)
+	}
+	defer reader.Close()
+
+	var decompressed bytes.Buffer
+
+	_, err = io.Copy(&decompressed, reader)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to decompress: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	return decompressed.Bytes()
+}
+
+func TestPackerSingleChunk(t *testing.T) {
+	log.Initialize(log.Config{})
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	identity := parseTestIdentity(t)
+	repos, packer := newTestPacker(t, defaultMaxBlobSize)
+	ctx := context.Background()
+
+	data := []byte("Hello, World!")
+	chunk := makeChunk(t, repos, data)
+
+	err := packer.AddChunk(ctx, chunk)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to add chunk: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	err = packer.Flush(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to flush: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	blobs := packer.GetFinishedBlobs()
+	if len(blobs) != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("expected 1 blob, got %d", len(blobs))
+	}
+
+	finished := blobs[0]
+	if len(finished.Chunks) != 1 {
+		t.Errorf("expected 1 chunk in blob, got %d", len(finished.Chunks))
+	}
+
+	// Note: Very small data may not compress well
+	t.Logf("Compression: %d -> %d bytes",
+		finished.Uncompressed, finished.Compressed)
+
+	decompressed := decryptAndDecompress(t, finished.Data, identity)
+	if !bytes.Equal(decompressed, data) {
+		t.Error("decompressed data doesn't match original")
+	}
+}
+
+func TestPackerMultipleChunks(t *testing.T) {
+	log.Initialize(log.Config{})
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	repos, packer := newTestPacker(t, defaultMaxBlobSize)
+	ctx := context.Background()
+
+	chunks := make([]*blob.ChunkRef, testChunkCount)
+	for i := range testChunkCount {
+		data := bytes.Repeat([]byte{byte(i)}, testChunkSize)
+		chunks[i] = makeChunk(t, repos, data)
+	}
+
+	for _, chunk := range chunks {
+		err := packer.AddChunk(ctx, chunk)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("failed to add chunk: %v", err)
+		}
+	}
+
+	err := packer.Flush(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to flush: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	blobs := packer.GetFinishedBlobs()
+	if len(blobs) != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("expected 1 blob, got %d", len(blobs))
+	}
+
+	if len(blobs[0].Chunks) != testChunkCount {
+		t.Errorf("expected %d chunks in blob, got %d",
+			testChunkCount, len(blobs[0].Chunks))
+	}
+
+	// Verify offsets are correct
+	expectedOffset := int64(0)
+
+	for i, chunkRef := range blobs[0].Chunks {
+		if chunkRef.Offset != expectedOffset {
+			t.Errorf("chunk %d: expected offset %d, got %d",
+				i, expectedOffset, chunkRef.Offset)
+		}
+
+		if chunkRef.Length != testChunkSize {
+			t.Errorf("chunk %d: expected length %d, got %d",
+				i, testChunkSize, chunkRef.Length)
+		}
+
+		expectedOffset += chunkRef.Length
+	}
+}
+
+func TestPackerSizeLimit(t *testing.T) {
+	log.Initialize(log.Config{})
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	const (
+		maxBlobSize        = 5000 // 5KB max, forces multiple blobs
+		maxBlobawoOverhead = 6000 // allow some overhead over the limit
+	)
+
+	repos, packer := newTestPacker(t, maxBlobSize)
+	ctx := context.Background()
+
+	chunks := make([]*blob.ChunkRef, testChunkCount)
+	for i := range testChunkCount {
+		data := bytes.Repeat([]byte{byte(i)}, testChunkSize) // 1KB each
+		chunks[i] = makeChunk(t, repos, data)
+	}
+
+	blobCount := 0
+
+	// Add chunks and handle size limit errors
+	for _, chunk := range chunks {
+		err := packer.AddChunk(ctx, chunk)
+		if errors.Is(err, blob.ErrBlobSizeLimitExceeded) {
+			// Finalize current blob
+			err = packer.FinalizeBlob(ctx)
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatalf("failed to finalize blob: %v", err)
+			}
+
+			blobCount++
+
+			// Retry adding the chunk
+			err = packer.AddChunk(ctx, chunk)
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatalf("failed to add chunk after finalize: %v", err)
+			}
+		} else if err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("failed to add chunk: %v", err)
+		}
+	}
+
+	err := packer.Flush(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to flush: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	blobs := packer.GetFinishedBlobs()
+
+	totalBlobs := blobCount + len(blobs)
+	if totalBlobs < 2 {
+		t.Errorf("expected multiple blobs due to size limit, got %d", totalBlobs)
+	}
+
+	// Verify each blob respects size limit (approximately)
+	for _, finished := range blobs {
+		if finished.Compressed > maxBlobawoOverhead {
+			t.Errorf("blob size %d exceeds limit", finished.Compressed)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestPackerEncryption(t *testing.T) {
+	log.Initialize(log.Config{})
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	identity := parseTestIdentity(t)
+	repos, packer := newTestPacker(t, defaultMaxBlobSize)
+	ctx := context.Background()
+
+	data := bytes.Repeat([]byte("Test data for encryption!"), 100)
+	chunk := makeChunk(t, repos, data)
+
+	err := packer.AddChunk(ctx, chunk)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to add chunk: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	err = packer.Flush(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to flush: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	blobs := packer.GetFinishedBlobs()
+	if len(blobs) != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("expected 1 blob, got %d", len(blobs))
+	}
+
+	decompressed := decryptAndDecompress(t, blobs[0].Data, identity)
+	if !bytes.Equal(decompressed, data) {
+		t.Error("decrypted and decompressed data doesn't match original")
+	}
+}

internal/blobgen/helpers_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,119 @@
+package blobgen_test
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"crypto/rand"
+	"errors"
+	"io"
+	"testing"
+
+	"filippo.io/age"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/blobgen"
+)
+
+// ageChunkSize is age's STREAM plaintext chunk size (64 KiB); each encrypted
+// chunk adds a 16-byte ChaCha20-Poly1305 tag.
+const (
+	ageChunkSize    = 64 * 1024
+	ageChunkTagSize = 16
+	ageSegmentSize  = ageChunkSize + ageChunkTagSize
+	ageNonceSize    = 16
+)
+
+// makeIdentity returns a fresh X25519 identity and its recipient string.
+func makeIdentity(t *testing.T) (*age.X25519Identity, string) {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	id, err := age.GenerateX25519Identity()
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	return id, id.Recipient().String()
+}
+
+// randomBytes returns n cryptographically random bytes, which do not compress
+// so the encrypted payload spans multiple age segments.
+func randomBytes(t *testing.T, n int) []byte {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	b := make([]byte, n)
+	_, err := rand.Read(b)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	return b
+}
+
+// compressibleBytes returns n bytes of a repeating pattern, which zstd packs
+// down to a small payload.
+func compressibleBytes(n int) []byte {
+	pattern := bytes.Repeat([]byte("compressible-"), n/13+1)
+
+	return pattern[:n]
+}
+
+// encryptBlob compresses, encrypts and returns a blob for plaintext at
+// compression level 1.
+func encryptBlob(t *testing.T, plaintext []byte, recipients ...string) []byte {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	var buf bytes.Buffer
+
+	w, err := blobgen.NewWriter(&buf, 1, recipients)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	_, err = w.Write(plaintext)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	require.NoError(t, w.Close())
+
+	return buf.Bytes()
+}
+
+// ageHeaderLen returns the byte length of blob's age header, i.e. the offset
+// of the 16-byte payload nonce that follows it. The header ends with a MAC
+// line "--- <mac>\n"; the nonce begins right after that newline.
+func ageHeaderLen(t *testing.T, blob []byte) int {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	i := bytes.Index(blob, []byte("\n--- "))
+	require.GreaterOrEqual(t, i, 0, "age MAC footer line not found")
+
+	nl := bytes.IndexByte(blob[i+1:], '\n')
+	require.GreaterOrEqual(t, nl, 0, "newline ending MAC line not found")
+
+	return i + 1 + nl + 1
+}
+
+// requireBlobUnreadable asserts that data never decrypts to a plaintext with a
+// nil error: either NewReader fails, or reading it does.
+func requireBlobUnreadable(t *testing.T, data []byte, id age.Identity) {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	r, err := blobgen.NewReader(bytes.NewReader(data), id)
+	if err != nil {
+		return
+	}
+
+	_, err = io.ReadAll(r)
+	_ = r.Close()
+
+	require.Error(t, err, "reading a damaged blob must fail")
+}
+
+// errFailWriter is returned by failAfterWriter once its byte limit is passed.
+var errFailWriter = errors.New("destination write failed")
+
+// failAfterWriter accepts writes until more than limit bytes have been sent,
+// then fails every write. It models a destination that dies mid-blob.
+type failAfterWriter struct {
+	limit   int
+	written int
+}
+
+func (f *failAfterWriter) Write(p []byte) (int, error) {
+	f.written += len(p)
+	if f.written > f.limit {
+		return 0, errFailWriter
+	}
+
+	return len(p), nil
+}

internal/blobgen/limit.go

@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+package blobgen
+
+import (
+	"errors"
+	"io"
+)
+
+// ErrOutputTooLarge is returned by a reader from LimitReader once it has
+// been asked for more than its limit. It bounds how far an untrusted
+// compressed stream may expand, so a small, highly compressible object
+// from the store cannot decompress without limit.
+var ErrOutputTooLarge = errors.New("output exceeds size limit")
+
+// LimitReader returns a reader that yields at most limit bytes from r and
+// then fails with ErrOutputTooLarge. Unlike io.LimitReader, which reports
+// a silent io.EOF at the limit (indistinguishable from a stream that
+// simply ended), this fails, so a caller decoding or copying the stream
+// sees an error rather than a truncated value. A stream of exactly limit
+// bytes reads back cleanly to EOF; the first byte beyond it is the error.
+func LimitReader(r io.Reader, limit int64) io.Reader {
+	// remaining counts down from limit+1: the extra byte is the one that,
+	// if it ever arrives, proves the stream is longer than the limit.
+	return &limitReader{r: r, remaining: limit + 1}
+}
+
+type limitReader struct {
+	r         io.Reader
+	remaining int64
+}
+
+func (l *limitReader) Read(p []byte) (int, error) {
+	if l.remaining <= 0 {
+		return 0, ErrOutputTooLarge
+	}
+
+	if int64(len(p)) > l.remaining {
+		p = p[:l.remaining]
+	}
+
+	n, err := l.r.Read(p)
+	l.remaining -= int64(n)
+
+	if l.remaining <= 0 {
+		// The (limit+1)th byte was just read: the stream is too long.
+		return n, ErrOutputTooLarge
+	}
+
+	return n, err
+}

internal/blobgen/limit_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+package blobgen_test
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"io"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/blobgen"
+)
+
+// TestLimitReaderPassesExactSize checks that a stream of exactly the limit
+// reads back cleanly to EOF: the bound must not reject a legitimate blob
+// whose plaintext equals its recorded size.
+func TestLimitReaderPassesExactSize(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	const n = 1000
+
+	r := blobgen.LimitReader(bytes.NewReader(bytes.Repeat([]byte("a"), n)), n)
+
+	got, err := io.ReadAll(r)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	require.Len(t, got, n)
+}
+
+// TestLimitReaderFailsPastLimit feeds a large, highly compressible run of
+// zeros — the decompressed output a zip bomb would produce — through a
+// small limit and checks it fails within the bound rather than passing
+// the whole stream through.
+func TestLimitReaderFailsPastLimit(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	const limit = 1000
+
+	r := blobgen.LimitReader(
+		bytes.NewReader(bytes.Repeat([]byte{0}, limit*1000)), limit)
+
+	n, err := io.Copy(io.Discard, r)
+	require.ErrorIs(t, err, blobgen.ErrOutputTooLarge)
+	require.LessOrEqual(t, n, int64(limit)+1,
+		"reader must stop within one byte of the limit")
+}

internal/blobgen/negative_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,190 @@
+package blobgen_test
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"fmt"
+	"testing"
+
+	"filippo.io/age"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/blobgen"
+)
+
+// TestNewReaderWrongIdentity covers issue case 4: opening a blob with an
+// identity other than the recipient reports no matching identity.
+func TestNewReaderWrongIdentity(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	_, recipient := makeIdentity(t)
+	other, _ := makeIdentity(t)
+
+	blob := encryptBlob(t, []byte("secret payload"), recipient)
+
+	_, err := blobgen.NewReader(bytes.NewReader(blob), other)
+	require.Error(t, err)
+
+	var noMatch *age.NoIdentityMatchError
+	assert.ErrorAs(t, err, &noMatch)
+}
+
+// TestNewReaderTruncated covers issue case 6: a multi-segment blob cut at
+// several points must never read back as valid data. The point immediately
+// after the header and nonce is intentionally excluded: it reads as a valid
+// empty blob today and is the regression case for
+// https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/vaultik/issues/152.
+func TestNewReaderTruncated(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	id, recipient := makeIdentity(t)
+	blob := encryptBlob(t, randomBytes(t, 4*65536+123), recipient)
+	h := ageHeaderLen(t, blob)
+
+	require.Greater(t, len(blob), h+ageNonceSize+ageSegmentSize,
+		"test needs a blob of at least two age segments")
+
+	cases := []struct {
+		name string
+		size int
+	}{
+		{"inside header", h / 2},
+		{"inside nonce", h + 8},
+		{"inside first segment", h + ageNonceSize + 100},
+		{"end of first full segment", h + ageNonceSize + ageSegmentSize},
+		{"last byte removed", len(blob) - 1},
+	}
+
+	for _, tc := range cases {
+		t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			t.Parallel()
+			requireBlobUnreadable(t, blob[:tc.size], id)
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+// TestNewReaderCorrupted covers issue case 7: one flipped byte in each region
+// of a multi-segment blob makes it unreadable.
+func TestNewReaderCorrupted(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	id, recipient := makeIdentity(t)
+	blob := encryptBlob(t, randomBytes(t, 4*65536+123), recipient)
+	h := ageHeaderLen(t, blob)
+
+	firstNL := bytes.IndexByte(blob, '\n')
+	require.Positive(t, firstNL, "header must have a version line")
+
+	cases := []struct {
+		name string
+		pos  int
+	}{
+		{"header stanza", firstNL + 5},
+		{"header MAC line", h - 2},
+		{"nonce", h + 4},
+		{"body segment", h + ageNonceSize + 50},
+		{"final tag", len(blob) - 1},
+	}
+
+	for _, tc := range cases {
+		t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			t.Parallel()
+
+			corrupt := append([]byte(nil), blob...)
+			corrupt[tc.pos] ^= 0xff
+			requireBlobUnreadable(t, corrupt, id)
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+// TestNewReaderTrailingAndGarbage covers issue case 8: bytes appended after a
+// valid blob, empty input, and random garbage each fail to read.
+func TestNewReaderTrailingAndGarbage(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	id, recipient := makeIdentity(t)
+
+	valid := encryptBlob(t, []byte("small payload"), recipient)
+	appended := append(append([]byte(nil), valid...), []byte("trailing junk")...)
+
+	t.Run("appended bytes", func(t *testing.T) {
+		t.Parallel()
+		requireBlobUnreadable(t, appended, id)
+	})
+	t.Run("empty input", func(t *testing.T) {
+		t.Parallel()
+		requireBlobUnreadable(t, []byte{}, id)
+	})
+	t.Run("random garbage", func(t *testing.T) {
+		t.Parallel()
+		requireBlobUnreadable(t, randomBytes(t, 512), id)
+	})
+}
+
+// TestNewWriterInvalidLevel covers the rejected end of issue case 9: an
+// out-of-range compression level errors and writes nothing to the destination.
+func TestNewWriterInvalidLevel(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	_, recipient := makeIdentity(t)
+
+	for _, level := range []int{0, -1, 20} {
+		t.Run(fmt.Sprintf("level%d", level), func(t *testing.T) {
+			t.Parallel()
+
+			var buf bytes.Buffer
+
+			w, err := blobgen.NewWriter(&buf, level, []string{recipient})
+			require.ErrorIs(t, err, blobgen.ErrInvalidCompressionLevel)
+			assert.Nil(t, w)
+			assert.Zero(t, buf.Len(), "nothing written on an invalid level")
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+// TestNewWriterInvalidRecipients covers issue case 10: nil and empty recipient
+// lists and an unparsable recipient string each error.
+func TestNewWriterInvalidRecipients(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	cases := []struct {
+		name       string
+		recipients []string
+	}{
+		{"nil list", nil},
+		{"empty list", []string{}},
+		{"invalid recipient string", []string{"not-a-recipient"}},
+	}
+
+	for _, tc := range cases {
+		t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			t.Parallel()
+
+			var buf bytes.Buffer
+
+			w, err := blobgen.NewWriter(&buf, 1, tc.recipients)
+			require.Error(t, err)
+			assert.Nil(t, w)
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+// TestNewWriterFailingDestination covers issue case 11: a destination that
+// fails mid-blob surfaces its error from Write or Close.
+func TestNewWriterFailingDestination(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	_, recipient := makeIdentity(t)
+
+	// The limit clears the age header and nonce so NewWriter succeeds, then
+	// trips once the compressed body starts flowing.
+	dst := &failAfterWriter{limit: 512}
+
+	w, err := blobgen.NewWriter(dst, 1, []string{recipient})
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	_, writeErr := w.Write(randomBytes(t, 256*1024))
+	closeErr := w.Close()
+
+	assert.True(t, writeErr != nil || closeErr != nil,
+		"destination failure must surface from Write or Close")
+}

internal/blobgen/reader.go

@@ -0,0 +1,96 @@
+package blobgen
+
+import (
+	"crypto/sha256"
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"hash"
+	"io"
+
+	"filippo.io/age"
+	"github.com/klauspost/compress/zstd"
+)
+
+// Reader wraps decompression and decryption with SHA256 verification
+type Reader struct {
+	reader       io.Reader
+	decompressor *zstd.Decoder
+	decryptor    io.Reader
+	hasher       hash.Hash
+	teeReader    io.Reader
+	bytesRead    int64
+}
+
+// NewReader creates a new Reader that decrypts, decompresses, and verifies
+// data. Every supplied identity is offered to age.Decrypt, so a blob
+// encrypted to any one of them can be read.
+func NewReader(r io.Reader, identities ...age.Identity) (*Reader, error) {
+	// Create decryption reader
+	decReader, err := age.Decrypt(r, identities...)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("creating decryption reader: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	// Create decompression reader
+	decompressor, err := zstd.NewReader(decReader)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("creating decompression reader: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	// Create SHA256 hasher
+	hasher := sha256.New()
+
+	// Create tee reader that reads from decompressor and writes to hasher
+	teeReader := io.TeeReader(decompressor, hasher)
+
+	return &Reader{
+		reader:       r,
+		decompressor: decompressor,
+		decryptor:    decReader,
+		hasher:       hasher,
+		teeReader:    teeReader,
+	}, nil
+}
+
+// Read implements io.Reader
+func (r *Reader) Read(p []byte) (int, error) {
+	n, err := r.teeReader.Read(p)
+	r.bytesRead += int64(n)
+
+	// When the ciphertext is cut right after the age header plus its
+	// 16-byte nonce, the age reader's first read fails with
+	// io.ErrUnexpectedEOF, and the zstd decoder maps that to a clean
+	// io.EOF at frame start. That makes a truncated stream look like a
+	// valid empty one. Distinguish the two: on EOF, read once more from
+	// the age reader. A genuine end leaves it at (0, io.EOF); a truncated
+	// stream leaves its stored io.ErrUnexpectedEOF, which we surface.
+	if errors.Is(err, io.EOF) {
+		var probe [1]byte
+
+		m, ageErr := r.decryptor.Read(probe[:])
+		if m != 0 || !errors.Is(ageErr, io.EOF) {
+			return n, io.ErrUnexpectedEOF
+		}
+	}
+
+	return n, err
+}
+
+// Close closes the decompressor
+func (r *Reader) Close() error {
+	r.decompressor.Close()
+
+	return nil
+}
+
+// Sum256 returns the single SHA-256 of the plaintext read so far. This is the
+// first hash only; the stored object name is its double hash, which callers
+// obtain by passing this digest to DoubleSHA256.
+func (r *Reader) Sum256() []byte {
+	return r.hasher.Sum(nil)
+}
+
+// BytesRead returns the number of uncompressed bytes read
+func (r *Reader) BytesRead() int64 {
+	return r.bytesRead
+}

internal/blobgen/reader_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+package blobgen_test
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"io"
+	"testing"
+
+	"filippo.io/age"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/blobgen"
+)
+
+// TestMultipleRecipients verifies that data written for several recipients can
+// be read back by each recipient's identity. Moved from internal/crypto, which
+// held the only multi-recipient test; blobgen is now the sole encryption path.
+func TestMultipleRecipients(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	identities := make([]*age.X25519Identity, 3)
+	recipients := make([]string, 3)
+
+	for i := range identities {
+		identity, err := age.GenerateX25519Identity()
+		require.NoError(t, err)
+
+		identities[i] = identity
+		recipients[i] = identity.Recipient().String()
+	}
+
+	plaintext := []byte("Secret message for multiple recipients")
+
+	var encrypted bytes.Buffer
+
+	writer, err := blobgen.NewWriter(&encrypted, 3, recipients)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	_, err = writer.Write(plaintext)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	require.NoError(t, writer.Close())
+
+	// Every recipient's identity must recover the original plaintext.
+	for i, identity := range identities {
+		reader, err := blobgen.NewReader(
+			bytes.NewReader(encrypted.Bytes()), identity)
+		require.NoError(t, err, "recipient %d should open the reader", i+1)
+
+		got, err := io.ReadAll(reader)
+		require.NoError(t, err, "recipient %d should read the plaintext", i+1)
+		require.NoError(t, reader.Close())
+
+		assert.Equal(t, plaintext, got,
+			"recipient %d should recover the original plaintext", i+1)
+	}
+}

internal/blobgen/roundtrip_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,132 @@
+package blobgen_test
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"crypto/sha256"
+	"fmt"
+	"io"
+	"testing"
+
+	"filippo.io/age"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/blobgen"
+)
+
+// checkRoundTrip writes input through a Writer, reads it back through a Reader,
+// and verifies the plaintext, the byte counts, and the content hashes.
+func checkRoundTrip(
+	t *testing.T, id *age.X25519Identity, recipient string,
+	level int, input []byte,
+) {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	var buf bytes.Buffer
+
+	w, err := blobgen.NewWriter(&buf, level, []string{recipient})
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	n, err := w.Write(input)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Equal(t, len(input), n)
+	require.NoError(t, w.Close())
+	require.Equal(t, int64(len(input)), w.BytesWritten())
+
+	r, err := blobgen.NewReader(bytes.NewReader(buf.Bytes()), id)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	got, err := io.ReadAll(r)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	require.NoError(t, r.Close())
+
+	assert.Equal(t, input, got, "decrypted output must equal input")
+	require.Equal(t, int64(len(input)), r.BytesRead())
+
+	// The hash values are checked by decrypting: the reader's single SHA-256
+	// is the hash of the plaintext, and hashing it once more (DoubleSHA256)
+	// gives the writer's ContentID.
+	single := sha256.Sum256(got)
+	assert.Equal(t, single[:], r.Sum256())
+	assert.Equal(t, blobgen.DoubleSHA256(r.Sum256()), w.ContentID())
+}
+
+// TestWriterReaderRoundTrip covers issue cases 1 and 2: every size round trips
+// for both random and compressible data, and the reader hash, its double hash
+// and the byte counts all agree.
+func TestWriterReaderRoundTrip(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	id, recipient := makeIdentity(t)
+
+	// Sizes exercise the age segment boundary (64 KiB) from just below to a
+	// few segments above it, plus the empty and single-byte edges.
+	sizes := []int{0, 1, 65535, 65536, 65537, 4*65536 + 123}
+
+	kinds := []struct {
+		name string
+		fill func(*testing.T, int) []byte
+	}{
+		{"random", randomBytes},
+		{"compressible", func(_ *testing.T, n int) []byte {
+			return compressibleBytes(n)
+		}},
+	}
+
+	for _, k := range kinds {
+		for _, size := range sizes {
+			name := fmt.Sprintf("%s/%d", k.name, size)
+			t.Run(name, func(t *testing.T) {
+				t.Parallel()
+				checkRoundTrip(t, id, recipient, 1, k.fill(t, size))
+			})
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// TestZeroLengthNoWrite covers issue case 3: a Writer closed with no Write at
+// all produces the double hash of the empty input, and the blob reads back as
+// empty with no error.
+func TestZeroLengthNoWrite(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	id, recipient := makeIdentity(t)
+
+	var buf bytes.Buffer
+
+	w, err := blobgen.NewWriter(&buf, 1, []string{recipient})
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	require.NoError(t, w.Close())
+	assert.Equal(t, int64(0), w.BytesWritten())
+
+	empty := sha256.Sum256(nil)
+	doubled := sha256.Sum256(empty[:])
+	assert.Equal(t, doubled[:], w.ContentID(),
+		"ContentID of empty input is SHA256(SHA256(\"\"))")
+
+	r, err := blobgen.NewReader(bytes.NewReader(buf.Bytes()), id)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	got, err := io.ReadAll(r)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	require.NoError(t, r.Close())
+
+	assert.Empty(t, got, "empty blob decrypts to empty output")
+	assert.Equal(t, int64(0), r.BytesRead())
+	assert.Equal(t, empty[:], r.Sum256())
+}
+
+// TestNewWriterValidLevelsRoundTrip covers the accepted end of issue case 9:
+// the boundary compression levels 1 and 19 both round trip.
+func TestNewWriterValidLevelsRoundTrip(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	id, recipient := makeIdentity(t)
+	input := randomBytes(t, 4096)
+
+	for _, level := range []int{1, 19} {
+		t.Run(fmt.Sprintf("level%d", level), func(t *testing.T) {
+			t.Parallel()
+			checkRoundTrip(t, id, recipient, level, input)
+		})
+	}
+}

internal/blobgen/truncation_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+package blobgen_test
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"io"
+	"testing"
+
+	"filippo.io/age"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/blobgen"
+)
+
+// TestReaderRejectsHeaderNonceTruncation guards against a stream cut right
+// after the age header plus its 16-byte nonce. age.Decrypt still succeeds on
+// such an object, and the zstd decoder maps the age reader's
+// io.ErrUnexpectedEOF to a clean io.EOF at frame start, so without the extra
+// check the truncated stream would read as a valid empty one. Reading it must
+// now fail.
+func TestReaderRejectsHeaderNonceTruncation(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	identity, err := age.GenerateX25519Identity()
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	// Encrypting empty plaintext yields header + nonce(16) + a single
+	// 16-byte final chunk tag. Dropping the trailing tag leaves exactly the
+	// age header plus its nonce — the truncation point that triggers the bug.
+	var full bytes.Buffer
+
+	w, err := age.Encrypt(&full, identity.Recipient())
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	require.NoError(t, w.Close())
+
+	truncated := full.Bytes()[:full.Len()-16]
+
+	reader, err := blobgen.NewReader(bytes.NewReader(truncated), identity)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	defer func() { _ = reader.Close() }()
+
+	_, err = io.ReadAll(reader)
+	require.Error(t, err)
+	require.ErrorIs(t, err, io.ErrUnexpectedEOF)
+}
+
+// TestReaderReadsGenuinelyEmptyBlob confirms the truncation check does not
+// reject a legitimately empty payload: a blob written with no data must round
+// trip back to zero bytes with no error.
+func TestReaderReadsGenuinelyEmptyBlob(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	identity, err := age.GenerateX25519Identity()
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	var encrypted bytes.Buffer
+
+	writer, err := blobgen.NewWriter(
+		&encrypted, 3, []string{identity.Recipient().String()})
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	require.NoError(t, writer.Close())
+
+	reader, err := blobgen.NewReader(bytes.NewReader(encrypted.Bytes()), identity)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	defer func() { _ = reader.Close() }()
+
+	data, err := io.ReadAll(reader)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	require.Empty(t, data)
+}

internal/blobgen/writer.go

@@ -0,0 +1,176 @@
+// Package blobgen implements the blob data pipeline: streaming zstd
+// compression, age encryption, and SHA256 content hashing for blob
+// creation, plus the matching decrypt/decompress/verify reader.
+package blobgen
+
+import (
+	"crypto/sha256"
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"hash"
+	"io"
+	"runtime"
+
+	"filippo.io/age"
+	"github.com/klauspost/compress/zstd"
+)
+
+// DoubleSHA256 returns the double SHA-256 of content whose single SHA-256
+// digest is sum: it hashes that digest once more. Stored objects — a blob, and
+// the metadata database export — are named by this second hash.
+//
+// The second hash does not hide whether known content is stored: an attacker
+// who can reproduce an object's entire plaintext computes the same name simply
+// by hashing twice, exactly as this code does. What limits that is blob
+// packing, not the double hash — a blob's name covers all of its concatenated
+// chunk plaintext, so a name can be confirmed only by someone who can
+// reproduce the whole blob (a snapshot made entirely of known content, or a
+// known file large enough to fill blobs on its own). An ordinary file that
+// shares a blob with other, unknown data cannot be confirmed this way.
+func DoubleSHA256(sum []byte) []byte {
+	h := sha256.Sum256(sum)
+
+	return h[:]
+}
+
+// Zstd compression level bounds accepted by NewWriter.
+const (
+	minCompressionLevel = 1
+	maxCompressionLevel = 19
+)
+
+// reservedCompressionCPUs is how many CPUs are left free of zstd
+// compression work for I/O and hashing.
+const reservedCompressionCPUs = 2
+
+// ErrInvalidCompressionLevel is returned when the zstd compression level
+// is outside the accepted 1-19 range.
+var ErrInvalidCompressionLevel = errors.New(
+	"invalid compression level: must be between 1 and 19")
+
+// errInvalidRecipient is returned when a recipient string does not parse as
+// an X25519 age1... public key. It omits the value, which can be sensitive.
+var errInvalidRecipient = errors.New(
+	"not a valid X25519 age1... recipient")
+
+// Writer wraps compression and encryption with SHA256 hashing.
+// Data flows: input -> tee(hasher, compressor -> encryptor -> destination)
+// The hash is computed on the uncompressed input for deterministic content-addressing.
+type Writer struct {
+	teeWriter        io.Writer      // Tee to hasher and compressor
+	compressor       *zstd.Encoder  // Compression layer
+	encryptor        io.WriteCloser // Encryption layer
+	hasher           hash.Hash      // SHA256 hasher (on uncompressed input)
+	compressionLevel int
+	bytesWritten     int64
+}
+
+// NewWriter creates a new Writer that compresses, encrypts, and hashes
+// data. The hash is computed on the uncompressed input for deterministic
+// content-addressing.
+func NewWriter(
+	w io.Writer, compressionLevel int, recipients []string,
+) (*Writer, error) {
+	// Validate compression level
+	err := validateCompressionLevel(compressionLevel)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	// Create SHA256 hasher for the uncompressed input
+	hasher := sha256.New()
+
+	// Parse recipients
+	var ageRecipients []age.Recipient
+
+	for i, recipient := range recipients {
+		// The recipient string can be sensitive (e.g. a secret key pasted by
+		// mistake), so the error names its position, never its value.
+		r, err := age.ParseX25519Recipient(recipient)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("%w: recipient %d", errInvalidRecipient, i)
+		}
+
+		ageRecipients = append(ageRecipients, r)
+	}
+
+	// Create encryption writer that outputs to destination
+	encWriter, err := age.Encrypt(w, ageRecipients...)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("creating encryption writer: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	// Calculate compression concurrency: CPUs - 2, minimum 1
+	concurrency := max(runtime.NumCPU()-reservedCompressionCPUs, 1)
+
+	// Create compression writer with encryption as destination
+	compressor, err := zstd.NewWriter(encWriter,
+		zstd.WithEncoderLevel(zstd.EncoderLevelFromZstd(compressionLevel)),
+		zstd.WithEncoderConcurrency(concurrency),
+	)
+	if err != nil {
+		_ = encWriter.Close()
+
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("creating compression writer: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	// Create tee writer: input goes to both hasher and compressor
+	teeWriter := io.MultiWriter(hasher, compressor)
+
+	return &Writer{
+		teeWriter:        teeWriter,
+		compressor:       compressor,
+		encryptor:        encWriter,
+		hasher:           hasher,
+		compressionLevel: compressionLevel,
+	}, nil
+}
+
+// Write implements io.Writer
+func (w *Writer) Write(p []byte) (int, error) {
+	n, err := w.teeWriter.Write(p)
+	w.bytesWritten += int64(n)
+
+	return n, err
+}
+
+// Close closes all layers and returns any errors
+func (w *Writer) Close() error {
+	// Close compressor first
+	err := w.compressor.Close()
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("closing compressor: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	// Then close encryptor
+	err = w.encryptor.Close()
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("closing encryptor: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	return nil
+}
+
+// ContentID returns the double SHA-256 of the uncompressed input data: the
+// name under which this content is stored. It is the second hash of the
+// running SHA-256, via DoubleSHA256; see that function for what naming content
+// this way does and does not hide.
+func (w *Writer) ContentID() []byte {
+	return DoubleSHA256(w.hasher.Sum(nil))
+}
+
+// BytesWritten returns the number of uncompressed bytes written
+func (w *Writer) BytesWritten() int64 {
+	return w.bytesWritten
+}
+
+func validateCompressionLevel(level int) error {
+	// Zstd compression levels: 1-19 (default is 3)
+	// SpeedFastest = 1, SpeedDefault = 3, SpeedBetterCompression = 7,
+	// SpeedBestCompression = 11
+	if level < minCompressionLevel || level > maxCompressionLevel {
+		return fmt.Errorf("%w: got %d", ErrInvalidCompressionLevel, level)
+	}
+
+	return nil
+}

internal/blobgen/writer_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,128 @@
+package blobgen_test
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"crypto/rand"
+	"crypto/sha256"
+	"encoding/hex"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/blobgen"
+)
+
+// TestWriterHashIsDoubleHash verifies that Writer.ContentID() returns
+// SHA256(SHA256(plaintext)). Stored objects are named by this second hash so a
+// name is not the plaintext's own SHA-256; this does not stop someone who
+// already holds the plaintext from confirming it.
+func TestWriterHashIsDoubleHash(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	// Test data - random data that doesn't compress well
+	testData := make([]byte, 1024*1024) // 1MB
+	_, err := rand.Read(testData)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	// Test recipient (generated with age-keygen)
+	testRecipient := "age1cplgrwj77ta54dnmydvvmzn64ltk83ankxl5sww04mrtmu62kv3s89gmvv"
+
+	// Create a buffer to capture the encrypted output
+	var encryptedBuf bytes.Buffer
+
+	// Create blobgen writer
+	writer, err := blobgen.NewWriter(&encryptedBuf, 3, []string{testRecipient})
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	// Write test data
+	n, err := writer.Write(testData)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Equal(t, len(testData), n)
+
+	// Close to flush all data
+	err = writer.Close()
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	// Get the hash from the writer
+	writerHash := hex.EncodeToString(writer.ContentID())
+
+	// Calculate the expected double hash: SHA256(SHA256(plaintext))
+	firstHash := sha256.Sum256(testData)
+	secondHash := sha256.Sum256(firstHash[:])
+	expectedDoubleHash := hex.EncodeToString(secondHash[:])
+
+	// Also compute single hash to verify it's different
+	singleHashStr := hex.EncodeToString(firstHash[:])
+
+	t.Logf("Input size: %d bytes", len(testData))
+	t.Logf("Single hash (SHA256(data)): %s", singleHashStr)
+	t.Logf("Double hash (SHA256(SHA256(data))): %s", expectedDoubleHash)
+	t.Logf("Writer hash: %s", writerHash)
+
+	// The writer hash should match the double hash
+	assert.Equal(t, expectedDoubleHash, writerHash,
+		"Writer.ContentID() must be SHA256(SHA256(plaintext))")
+
+	// It must be the second hash, not the plaintext's own SHA-256.
+	assert.NotEqual(t, singleHashStr, writerHash,
+		"Writer hash must be the double hash, not the single SHA-256")
+}
+
+// TestWriterDeterministicHash verifies that the same input always produces
+// the same hash, even with non-deterministic encryption.
+func TestWriterDeterministicHash(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	// Test data
+	testData := []byte("Hello, World! This is test data for deterministic hashing.")
+
+	// Test recipient
+	testRecipient := "age1cplgrwj77ta54dnmydvvmzn64ltk83ankxl5sww04mrtmu62kv3s89gmvv"
+
+	// Create two writers and verify they produce the same hash
+	var buf1, buf2 bytes.Buffer
+
+	writer1, err := blobgen.NewWriter(&buf1, 3, []string{testRecipient})
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	_, err = writer1.Write(testData)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	require.NoError(t, writer1.Close())
+
+	writer2, err := blobgen.NewWriter(&buf2, 3, []string{testRecipient})
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	_, err = writer2.Write(testData)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	require.NoError(t, writer2.Close())
+
+	hash1 := hex.EncodeToString(writer1.ContentID())
+	hash2 := hex.EncodeToString(writer2.ContentID())
+
+	// Hashes should be identical (deterministic)
+	assert.Equal(t, hash1, hash2, "Same input should produce same hash")
+
+	// Encrypted outputs should be different (non-deterministic encryption)
+	assert.NotEqual(t, buf1.Bytes(), buf2.Bytes(),
+		"Encrypted outputs should differ due to non-deterministic encryption")
+
+	t.Logf("Hash 1: %s", hash1)
+	t.Logf("Hash 2: %s", hash2)
+	t.Logf("Encrypted size 1: %d bytes", buf1.Len())
+	t.Logf("Encrypted size 2: %d bytes", buf2.Len())
+}
+
+// TestNewWriterSecretKeyNotEchoed verifies that a secret key mistakenly passed
+// as a recipient does not appear in the returned error. A recipient string can
+// be sensitive, so the error must name only the position, not the value.
+func TestNewWriterSecretKeyNotEchoed(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	secretKey := "AGE-SECRET-KEY-19CR5YSFW59HM4TLD6GX" +
+		"VEDMZFTVVF7PPHKUT68TXSFPK7APHXA2QS2NJA5"
+
+	var buf bytes.Buffer
+
+	_, err := blobgen.NewWriter(&buf, 3, []string{secretKey})
+	require.Error(t, err)
+	assert.NotContains(t, err.Error(), secretKey,
+		"error must not echo the recipient value")
+}

internal/chunker/chunker.go

@@ -0,0 +1,177 @@
+// Package chunker splits input data into content-defined chunks using the
+// FastCDC algorithm so that identical data sequences produce identical
+// chunks regardless of their position in the file.
+package chunker
+
+import (
+	"crypto/sha256"
+	"encoding/hex"
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"io"
+	"os"
+)
+
+// Chunk represents a single chunk of data produced by the content-defined
+// chunking algorithm. Each chunk is identified by its SHA256 hash and
+// contains the raw data along with its position and size information from
+// the original file.
+type Chunk struct {
+	Hash   string // Content hash of the chunk
+	Data   []byte // Chunk data
+	Offset int64  // Offset in the original file
+	Size   int64  // Size of the chunk
+}
+
+// Chunker provides content-defined chunking using the FastCDC algorithm.
+// It splits data into variable-sized chunks based on content patterns, ensuring
+// that identical data sequences produce identical chunks regardless of their
+// position in the file. This enables efficient deduplication.
+type Chunker struct {
+	avgChunkSize int
+	minChunkSize int
+	maxChunkSize int
+}
+
+// ChunkSizeSpread is the FastCDC-recommended factor between the average
+// chunk size and the minimum (avg/spread) and maximum (avg*spread) sizes.
+// The largest chunk the chunker can emit is therefore avg*ChunkSizeSpread.
+const ChunkSizeSpread = 4
+
+// NewChunker creates a new chunker with the specified average chunk size.
+// The actual chunk sizes will vary between avgChunkSize/4 and avgChunkSize*4
+// as recommended by the FastCDC algorithm. Typical values for avgChunkSize
+// are 64KB (65536), 256KB (262144), or 1MB (1048576).
+func NewChunker(avgChunkSize int64) *Chunker {
+	// FastCDC recommends min = avg/4 and max = avg*4
+	return &Chunker{
+		avgChunkSize: int(avgChunkSize),
+		minChunkSize: int(avgChunkSize / ChunkSizeSpread),
+		maxChunkSize: int(avgChunkSize * ChunkSizeSpread),
+	}
+}
+
+// ChunkReader splits the reader into content-defined chunks and returns all
+// chunks at once. This method loads all chunk data into memory, so it should
+// only be used for reasonably sized inputs. For large files or streams, use
+// ChunkReaderStreaming instead.
+// Returns an error if chunking fails or if reading from the input fails.
+func (c *Chunker) ChunkReader(r io.Reader) ([]Chunk, error) {
+	chunker := AcquireReusableChunker(
+		r, c.minChunkSize, c.avgChunkSize, c.maxChunkSize)
+	defer chunker.Release()
+
+	var chunks []Chunk
+
+	offset := int64(0)
+
+	for {
+		chunk, err := chunker.Next()
+		if errors.Is(err, io.EOF) {
+			break
+		}
+
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("reading chunk: %w", err)
+		}
+
+		// Calculate hash
+		hash := sha256.Sum256(chunk.Data)
+
+		// Make a copy of the data since the chunker reuses the buffer
+		chunkData := make([]byte, len(chunk.Data))
+		copy(chunkData, chunk.Data)
+
+		chunks = append(chunks, Chunk{
+			Hash:   hex.EncodeToString(hash[:]),
+			Data:   chunkData,
+			Offset: offset,
+			Size:   int64(len(chunk.Data)),
+		})
+
+		offset += int64(len(chunk.Data))
+	}
+
+	return chunks, nil
+}
+
+// ChunkCallback is a function called for each chunk as it's processed.
+// The callback receives a Chunk containing the hash, data, offset, and size.
+// If the callback returns an error, chunk processing stops and the error is
+// propagated.
+type ChunkCallback func(chunk Chunk) error
+
+// ChunkReaderStreaming splits the reader into chunks and calls the callback
+// for each chunk. This is the preferred method for processing large files or
+// streams as it doesn't accumulate all chunks in memory. The callback is
+// invoked for each chunk as it's produced, allowing for streaming processing
+// and immediate storage or transmission.
+// Returns the SHA256 hash of the entire file content and an error if
+// chunking fails, reading fails, or if the callback returns an error.
+func (c *Chunker) ChunkReaderStreaming(
+	r io.Reader, callback ChunkCallback,
+) (string, error) {
+	// Create a tee reader to calculate full file hash while chunking
+	fileHasher := sha256.New()
+	teeReader := io.TeeReader(r, fileHasher)
+
+	chunker := AcquireReusableChunker(
+		teeReader, c.minChunkSize, c.avgChunkSize, c.maxChunkSize)
+	defer chunker.Release()
+
+	offset := int64(0)
+
+	for {
+		chunk, err := chunker.Next()
+		if errors.Is(err, io.EOF) {
+			break
+		}
+
+		if err != nil {
+			return "", fmt.Errorf("reading chunk: %w", err)
+		}
+
+		// Calculate chunk hash
+		hash := sha256.Sum256(chunk.Data)
+
+		// Pass the data directly - caller must process it before we call
+		// Next() again (chunker reuses its internal buffer, but since we
+		// process synchronously and completely before continuing, no copy
+		// is needed)
+		err = callback(Chunk{
+			Hash:   hex.EncodeToString(hash[:]),
+			Data:   chunk.Data,
+			Offset: offset,
+			Size:   int64(len(chunk.Data)),
+		})
+		if err != nil {
+			return "", fmt.Errorf("callback error: %w", err)
+		}
+
+		offset += int64(len(chunk.Data))
+	}
+
+	// Return the full file hash
+	return hex.EncodeToString(fileHasher.Sum(nil)), nil
+}
+
+// ChunkFile splits a file into content-defined chunks by reading the entire file.
+// This is a convenience method that opens the file and passes it to ChunkReader.
+// For large files, consider using ChunkReaderStreaming with a file handle instead.
+// Returns an error if the file cannot be opened or if chunking fails.
+func (c *Chunker) ChunkFile(path string) ([]Chunk, error) {
+	file, err := os.Open(path) //nolint:gosec // G304: path is caller-supplied by design
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("opening file: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	defer func() {
+		err := file.Close()
+		if err != nil && err.Error() != "invalid argument" {
+			// Log error or handle as needed
+			_ = err
+		}
+	}()
+
+	return c.ChunkReader(file)
+}

internal/chunker/chunker_isolated_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
+package chunker_test
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"testing"
+
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/chunker"
+)
+
+func TestChunkerExpectedChunkCount(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	tests := []struct {
+		name         string
+		fileSize     int
+		avgChunkSize int64
+		minExpected  int
+		maxExpected  int
+	}{
+		{
+			name:         "1MB file with 64KB average",
+			fileSize:     1024 * 1024,
+			avgChunkSize: 64 * 1024,
+			minExpected:  8,  // At least half the expected count
+			maxExpected:  32, // At most double the expected count
+		},
+		{
+			name:         "10MB file with 256KB average",
+			fileSize:     10 * 1024 * 1024,
+			avgChunkSize: 256 * 1024,
+			minExpected:  10, // FastCDC may produce larger chunks
+			maxExpected:  80,
+		},
+		{
+			name:         "512KB file with 64KB average",
+			fileSize:     512 * 1024,
+			avgChunkSize: 64 * 1024,
+			minExpected:  4, // ~8 expected
+			maxExpected:  16,
+		},
+	}
+
+	for _, tt := range tests {
+		t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			t.Parallel()
+
+			c := chunker.NewChunker(tt.avgChunkSize)
+
+			// Create data with some variation to trigger chunk boundaries
+			data := make([]byte, tt.fileSize)
+			for i := range data {
+				// Use a pattern that should create boundaries
+				//nolint:gosec // G115: intentional byte truncation
+				data[i] = byte((i * 17) ^ (i >> 5))
+			}
+
+			chunks, err := c.ChunkReader(bytes.NewReader(data))
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatalf("chunking failed: %v", err)
+			}
+
+			t.Logf("Created %d chunks for %d bytes with %d average chunk size",
+				len(chunks), tt.fileSize, tt.avgChunkSize)
+
+			if len(chunks) < tt.minExpected {
+				t.Errorf("too few chunks: got %d, expected at least %d",
+					len(chunks), tt.minExpected)
+			}
+
+			if len(chunks) > tt.maxExpected {
+				t.Errorf("too many chunks: got %d, expected at most %d",
+					len(chunks), tt.maxExpected)
+			}
+
+			// Verify chunks reconstruct to original
+			var reconstructed []byte
+			for _, chunk := range chunks {
+				reconstructed = append(reconstructed, chunk.Data...)
+			}
+
+			if !bytes.Equal(data, reconstructed) {
+				t.Error("reconstructed data doesn't match original")
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}

internal/chunker/chunker_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,149 @@
+package chunker_test
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"crypto/rand"
+	"testing"
+
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/chunker"
+)
+
+func TestChunkerSmallFileSingleChunk(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	c := chunker.NewChunker(1024 * 1024)       // 1MB average
+	data := bytes.Repeat([]byte("hello"), 100) // 500 bytes
+
+	chunks, err := c.ChunkReader(bytes.NewReader(data))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("chunking failed: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	if len(chunks) != 1 {
+		t.Errorf("expected 1 chunk, got %d", len(chunks))
+	}
+
+	if chunks[0].Size != int64(len(data)) {
+		t.Errorf("expected chunk size %d, got %d", len(data), chunks[0].Size)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestChunkerLargeFileMultipleChunks(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	c := chunker.NewChunker(256 * 1024) // 256KB average chunk size
+
+	// Generate 2MB of random data
+	data := make([]byte, 2*1024*1024)
+
+	_, err := rand.Read(data)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to generate random data: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	chunks, err := c.ChunkReader(bytes.NewReader(data))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("chunking failed: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	// Should produce multiple chunks - with FastCDC we expect around 8
+	// chunks for 2MB with 256KB average
+	if len(chunks) < 4 || len(chunks) > 16 {
+		t.Errorf("expected 4-16 chunks, got %d", len(chunks))
+	}
+
+	// Verify chunks reconstruct original data
+	reconstructed := make([]byte, 0, len(data))
+	for _, chunk := range chunks {
+		reconstructed = append(reconstructed, chunk.Data...)
+	}
+
+	if !bytes.Equal(data, reconstructed) {
+		t.Error("reconstructed data doesn't match original")
+	}
+
+	// Verify offsets
+	var expectedOffset int64
+
+	for i, chunk := range chunks {
+		if chunk.Offset != expectedOffset {
+			t.Errorf("chunk %d: expected offset %d, got %d",
+				i, expectedOffset, chunk.Offset)
+		}
+
+		expectedOffset += chunk.Size
+	}
+}
+
+func TestChunkerDeterministic(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	chunker1 := chunker.NewChunker(256 * 1024)
+	chunker2 := chunker.NewChunker(256 * 1024)
+
+	// Use deterministic data
+	data := bytes.Repeat([]byte("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"), 20000) // ~520KB
+
+	chunks1, err := chunker1.ChunkReader(bytes.NewReader(data))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("chunking failed: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	chunks2, err := chunker2.ChunkReader(bytes.NewReader(data))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("chunking failed: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	// Should produce same chunks
+	if len(chunks1) != len(chunks2) {
+		t.Fatalf("different number of chunks: %d vs %d",
+			len(chunks1), len(chunks2))
+	}
+
+	for i := range chunks1 {
+		if chunks1[i].Hash != chunks2[i].Hash {
+			t.Errorf("chunk %d: different hashes", i)
+		}
+
+		if chunks1[i].Size != chunks2[i].Size {
+			t.Errorf("chunk %d: different sizes", i)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestChunkBoundaries(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	c := chunker.NewChunker(256 * 1024) // 256KB average
+
+	// FastCDC uses avg/4 for min and avg*4 for max
+	avgSize := int64(256 * 1024)
+	minSize := avgSize / 4
+	maxSize := avgSize * 4
+
+	// Test that minimum chunk size is respected
+	data := make([]byte, minSize+1024)
+
+	_, err := rand.Read(data)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to generate random data: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	chunks, err := c.ChunkReader(bytes.NewReader(data))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("chunking failed: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	for i, chunk := range chunks {
+		// Last chunk can be smaller than minimum
+		if i < len(chunks)-1 && chunk.Size < minSize {
+			t.Errorf("chunk %d size %d is below minimum %d",
+				i, chunk.Size, minSize)
+		}
+
+		if chunk.Size > maxSize {
+			t.Errorf("chunk %d size %d exceeds maximum %d",
+				i, chunk.Size, maxSize)
+		}
+	}
+}

internal/chunker/fastcdc.go

@@ -0,0 +1,296 @@
+package chunker
+
+import (
+	"errors"
+	"io"
+	"math"
+	"sync"
+)
+
+// ReusableChunker implements FastCDC with reusable buffers to minimize allocations.
+// Unlike the upstream fastcdc-go library which allocates a new buffer per file,
+// this implementation uses sync.Pool to reuse buffers across files.
+type ReusableChunker struct {
+	minSize  int
+	maxSize  int
+	normSize int
+	bufSize  int
+
+	maskS uint64
+	maskL uint64
+
+	rd io.Reader
+
+	buf    []byte
+	cursor int
+	offset int
+	eof    bool
+}
+
+// reusableChunkerPool pools ReusableChunker instances to avoid allocations.
+//
+//nolint:gochecknoglobals // process-wide object pool by design
+var reusableChunkerPool = sync.Pool{
+	New: func() any {
+		return &ReusableChunker{}
+	},
+}
+
+// bufferPools contains pools for different buffer sizes.
+// Key is the buffer size.
+//
+//nolint:gochecknoglobals // process-wide buffer pools by design
+var bufferPools = sync.Map{}
+
+func getBuffer(size int) []byte {
+	poolI, _ := bufferPools.LoadOrStore(size, &sync.Pool{
+		New: func() any {
+			buf := make([]byte, size)
+
+			return &buf
+		},
+	})
+
+	pool, ok := poolI.(*sync.Pool)
+	if !ok {
+		panic("bufferPools holds a non-pool value")
+	}
+
+	buf, ok := pool.Get().(*[]byte)
+	if !ok {
+		panic("buffer pool holds a non-buffer value")
+	}
+
+	return *buf
+}
+
+func putBuffer(buf []byte) {
+	size := cap(buf)
+
+	poolI, ok := bufferPools.Load(size)
+	if ok {
+		pool, isPool := poolI.(*sync.Pool)
+		if !isPool {
+			panic("bufferPools holds a non-pool value")
+		}
+
+		b := buf[:size]
+		pool.Put(&b)
+	}
+}
+
+// FastCDCChunk represents a chunk from the FastCDC algorithm.
+type FastCDCChunk struct {
+	Offset      int
+	Length      int
+	Data        []byte
+	Fingerprint uint64
+}
+
+// bufSizeFactor sizes the internal read buffer relative to the maximum
+// chunk size so a full chunk plus read-ahead always fits.
+const bufSizeFactor = 2
+
+// AcquireReusableChunker gets a chunker from the pool and initializes it
+// for the given reader.
+func AcquireReusableChunker(
+	rd io.Reader, minSize, avgSize, maxSize int,
+) *ReusableChunker {
+	c, ok := reusableChunkerPool.Get().(*ReusableChunker)
+	if !ok {
+		panic("reusableChunkerPool holds a non-chunker value")
+	}
+
+	bufSize := maxSize * bufSizeFactor
+
+	// Reuse buffer if it's the right size, otherwise get a new one
+	if c.buf == nil || cap(c.buf) != bufSize {
+		if c.buf != nil {
+			putBuffer(c.buf)
+		}
+
+		c.buf = getBuffer(bufSize)
+	} else {
+		// Restore buffer to full capacity (may have been truncated by previous EOF)
+		c.buf = c.buf[:cap(c.buf)]
+	}
+
+	bits := int(math.Round(math.Log2(float64(avgSize))))
+	normalization := 2
+	smallBits := bits + normalization
+	largeBits := bits - normalization
+
+	c.minSize = minSize
+	c.maxSize = maxSize
+	c.normSize = avgSize
+	c.bufSize = bufSize
+	c.maskS = (1 << smallBits) - 1
+	c.maskL = (1 << largeBits) - 1
+	c.rd = rd
+	c.cursor = bufSize
+	c.offset = 0
+	c.eof = false
+
+	return c
+}
+
+// Release returns the chunker to the pool for reuse.
+func (c *ReusableChunker) Release() {
+	c.rd = nil
+	reusableChunkerPool.Put(c)
+}
+
+// Next returns the next chunk or io.EOF when done.
+// The returned Data slice is only valid until the next call to Next.
+func (c *ReusableChunker) Next() (FastCDCChunk, error) {
+	err := c.fillBuffer()
+	if err != nil {
+		return FastCDCChunk{}, err
+	}
+
+	if len(c.buf) == 0 {
+		return FastCDCChunk{}, io.EOF
+	}
+
+	length, fp := c.nextChunk(c.buf[c.cursor:])
+
+	chunk := FastCDCChunk{
+		Offset:      c.offset,
+		Length:      length,
+		Data:        c.buf[c.cursor : c.cursor+length],
+		Fingerprint: fp,
+	}
+
+	c.cursor += length
+	c.offset += chunk.Length
+
+	return chunk, nil
+}
+
+func (c *ReusableChunker) fillBuffer() error {
+	n := len(c.buf) - c.cursor
+	if n >= c.maxSize {
+		return nil
+	}
+
+	// Move all data after the cursor to the start of the buffer
+	copy(c.buf[:n], c.buf[c.cursor:])
+	c.cursor = 0
+
+	if c.eof {
+		c.buf = c.buf[:n]
+
+		return nil
+	}
+
+	// Restore buffer to full capacity for reading
+	c.buf = c.buf[:c.bufSize]
+
+	// Fill the rest of the buffer
+	m, err := io.ReadFull(c.rd, c.buf[n:])
+	if errors.Is(err, io.EOF) || errors.Is(err, io.ErrUnexpectedEOF) {
+		c.buf = c.buf[:n+m]
+		c.eof = true
+	} else if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	return nil
+}
+
+func (c *ReusableChunker) nextChunk(data []byte) (int, uint64) {
+	fp := uint64(0)
+	i := c.minSize
+
+	if len(data) <= c.minSize {
+		return len(data), fp
+	}
+
+	n := min(len(data), c.maxSize)
+
+	for ; i < min(n, c.normSize); i++ {
+		fp = (fp << 1) + table[data[i]]
+		if (fp & c.maskS) == 0 {
+			return i + 1, fp
+		}
+	}
+
+	for ; i < n; i++ {
+		fp = (fp << 1) + table[data[i]]
+		if (fp & c.maskL) == 0 {
+			return i + 1, fp
+		}
+	}
+
+	return i, fp
+}
+
+// 256 random uint64s for the rolling hash function (from FastCDC paper)
+//
+//nolint:gochecknoglobals // immutable FastCDC gear lookup table
+var table = [256]uint64{
+	0xe80e8d55032474b3, 0x11b25b61f5924e15, 0x03aa5bd82a9eb669, 0xc45a153ef107a38c,
+	0xeac874b86f0f57b9, 0xa5ccedec95ec79c7, 0xe15a3320ad42ac0a, 0x5ed3583fa63cec15,
+	0xcd497bf624a4451d, 0xf9ade5b059683605, 0x773940c03fb11ca1, 0xa36b16e4a6ae15b2,
+	0x67afd1adb5a89eac, 0xc44c75ee32f0038e, 0x2101790f365c0967, 0x76415c64a222fc4a,
+	0x579929249a1e577a, 0xe4762fc41fdbf750, 0xea52198e57dfcdcc, 0xe2535aafe30b4281,
+	0xcb1a1bd6c77c9056, 0x5a1aa9bfc4612a62, 0x15a728aef8943eb5, 0x2f8f09738a8ec8d9,
+	0x200f3dec9fac8074, 0x0fa9a7b1e0d318df, 0x06c0804ffd0d8e3a, 0x630cbc412669dd25,
+	0x10e34f85f4b10285, 0x2a6fe8164b9b6410, 0xcacb57d857d55810, 0x77f8a3a36ff11b46,
+	0x66af517e0dc3003e, 0x76c073c789b4009a, 0x853230dbb529f22a, 0x1e9e9c09a1f77e56,
+	0x1e871223802ee65d, 0x37fe4588718ff813, 0x10088539f30db464, 0x366f7470b80b72d1,
+	0x33f2634d9a6b31db, 0xd43917751d69ea18, 0xa0f492bc1aa7b8de, 0x3f94e5a8054edd20,
+	0xedfd6e25eb8b1dbf, 0x759517a54f196a56, 0xe81d5006ec7b6b17, 0x8dd8385fa894a6b7,
+	0x45f4d5467b0d6f91, 0xa1f894699de22bc8, 0x33829d09ef93e0fe, 0x3e29e250caed603c,
+	0xf7382cba7f63a45e, 0x970f95412bb569d1, 0xc7fcea456d356b4b, 0x723042513f3e7a57,
+	0x17ae7688de3596f1, 0x27ac1fcd7cd23c1a, 0xf429beeb78b3f71f, 0xd0780692fb93a3f9,
+	0x9f507e28a7c9842f, 0x56001ad536e433ae, 0x7e1dd1ecf58be306, 0x15fee353aa233fc6,
+	0xb033a0730b7638e8, 0xeb593ad6bd2406d1, 0x7c86502574d0f133, 0xce3b008d4ccb4be7,
+	0xf8566e3d383594c8, 0xb2c261e9b7af4429, 0xf685e7e253799dbb, 0x05d33ed60a494cbc,
+	0xeaf88d55a4cb0d1a, 0x3ee9368a902415a1, 0x8980fe6a8493a9a4, 0x358ed008cb448631,
+	0xd0cb7e37b46824b8, 0xe9bc375c0bc94f84, 0xea0bf1d8e6b55bb3, 0xb66a60d0f9f6f297,
+	0x66db2cc4807b3758, 0x7e4e014afbca8b4d, 0xa5686a4938b0c730, 0xa5f0d7353d623316,
+	0x26e38c349242d5e8, 0xeeefa80a29858e30, 0x8915cb912aa67386, 0x4b957a47bfc420d4,
+	0xbb53d051a895f7e1, 0x09f5e3235f6911ce, 0x416b98e695cfb7ce, 0x97a08183344c5c86,
+	0xbf68e0791839a861, 0xea05dde59ed3ed56, 0x0ca732280beda160, 0xac748ed62fe7f4e2,
+	0xc686da075cf6e151, 0xe1ba5658f4af05c8, 0xe9ff09fbeb67cc35, 0xafaea9470323b28d,
+	0x0291e8db5bb0ac2a, 0x342072a9bbee77ae, 0x03147eed6b3d0a9c, 0x21379d4de31dbadb,
+	0x2388d965226fb986, 0x52c96988bfebabfa, 0xa6fc29896595bc2d, 0x38fa4af70aa46b8b,
+	0xa688dd13939421ee, 0x99d5275d9b1415da, 0x453d31bb4fe73631, 0xde51debc1fbe3356,
+	0x75a3c847a06c622f, 0xe80e32755d272579, 0x5444052250d8ec0d, 0x8f17dfda19580a3b,
+	0xf6b3e9363a185e42, 0x7a42adec6868732f, 0x32cb6a07629203a2, 0x1eca8957defe56d9,
+	0x9fa85e4bc78ff9ed, 0x20ff07224a499ca7, 0x3fa6295ff9682c70, 0xe3d5b1e3ce993eff,
+	0xa341209362e0b79a, 0x64bd9eae5712ffe8, 0xceebb537babbd12a, 0x5586ef404315954f,
+	0x46c3085c938ab51a, 0xa82ccb9199907cee, 0x8c51b6690a3523c8, 0xc4dbd4c9ae518332,
+	0x979898dbb23db7b2, 0x1b5b585e6f672a9d, 0xce284da7c4903810, 0x841166e8bb5f1c4f,
+	0xb7d884a3fceca7d0, 0xa76468f5a4572374, 0xc10c45f49ee9513d, 0x68f9a5663c1908c9,
+	0x0095a13476a6339d, 0xd1d7516ffbe9c679, 0xfd94ab0c9726f938, 0x627468bbdb27c959,
+	0xedc3f8988e4a8c9a, 0x58efd33f0dfaa499, 0x21e37d7e2ef4ac8b, 0x297f9ab5586259c6,
+	0xda3ba4dc6cb9617d, 0xae11d8d9de2284d2, 0xcfeed88cb3729865, 0xefc2f9e4f03e2633,
+	0x8226393e8f0855a4, 0xd6e25fd7acf3a767, 0x435784c3bfd6d14a, 0xf97142e6343fe757,
+	0xd73b9fe826352f85, 0x6c3ac444b5b2bd76, 0xd8e88f3e9fd4a3fd, 0x31e50875c36f3460,
+	0xa824f1bf88cf4d44, 0x54a4d2c8f5f25899, 0xbff254637ce3b1e6, 0xa02cfe92561b3caa,
+	0x7bedb4edee9f0af7, 0x879c0620ac49a102, 0xa12c4ccd23b332e7, 0x09a5ff47bf94ed1e,
+	0x7b62f43cd3046fa0, 0xaa3af0476b9c2fb9, 0x22e55301abebba8e, 0x3a6035c42747bd58,
+	0x1705373106c8ec07, 0xb1f660de828d0628, 0x065fe82d89ca563d, 0xf555c2d8074d516d,
+	0x6bb6c186b423ee99, 0x54a807be6f3120a8, 0x8a3c7fe2f88860b8, 0xbeffc344f5118e81,
+	0xd686e80b7d1bd268, 0x661aef4ef5e5e88b, 0x5bf256c654cd1dda, 0x9adb1ab85d7640f4,
+	0x68449238920833a2, 0x843279f4cebcb044, 0xc8710cdefa93f7bb, 0x236943294538f3e6,
+	0x80d7d136c486d0b4, 0x61653956b28851d3, 0x3f843be9a9a956b5, 0xf73cfbbf137987e5,
+	0xcf0cb6dee8ceac2c, 0x50c401f52f185cae, 0xbdbe89ce735c4c1c, 0xeef3ade9c0570bc7,
+	0xbe8b066f8f64cbf6, 0x5238d6131705dcb9, 0x20219086c950e9f6, 0x634468d9ed74de02,
+	0x0aba4b3d705c7fa5, 0x3374416f725a6672, 0xe7378bdf7beb3bc6, 0x0f7b6a1b1cee565b,
+	0x234e4c41b0c33e64, 0x4efa9a0c3f21fe28, 0x1167fc551643e514, 0x9f81a69d3eb01fa4,
+	0xdb75c22b12306ed0, 0xe25055d738fc9686, 0x9f9f167a3f8507bb, 0x195f8336d3fbe4d3,
+	0x8442b6feffdcb6f6, 0x1e07ed24746ffde9, 0x140e31462d555266, 0x8bd0ce515ae1406e,
+	0x2c0be0042b5584b3, 0x35a23d0e15d45a60, 0xc14f1ba147d9bc83, 0xbbf168691264b23f,
+	0xad2cc7b57e589ade, 0x9501963154c7815c, 0x9664afa6b8d67d47, 0x7f9e5101fea0a81c,
+	0x45ecffb610d25bfd, 0x3157f7aecf9b6ab3, 0xc43ca6f88d87501d, 0x9576ff838dee38dc,
+	0x93f21afe0ce1c7d7, 0xceac699df343d8f9, 0x2fec49e29f03398d, 0x8805ccd5730281ed,
+	0xf9fc16fc750a8e59, 0x35308cc771adf736, 0x4a57b7c9ee2b7def, 0x03a4c6cdc937a02a,
+	0x6c9a8a269fc8c4fc, 0x4681decec7a03f43, 0x342eecded1353ef9, 0x8be0552d8413a867,
+	0xc7b4ac51beda8be8, 0xebcc64fb719842c0, 0xde8e4c7fb6d40c1c, 0xcc8263b62f9738b1,
+	0xd3cfc0f86511929a, 0x466024ce8bb226ea, 0x459ff690253a3c18, 0x98b27e9d91284c9c,
+	0x75c3ae8aa3af373d, 0xfbf8f8e79a866ffc, 0x32327f59d0662799, 0x8228b57e729e9830,
+	0x065ceb7a18381b58, 0xd2177671a31dc5ff, 0x90cd801f2f8701f9, 0x9d714428471c65fe,
+}

internal/cli/app.go

@@ -1,56 +1,392 @@
+// Package cli implements the vaultik command-line interface: cobra
+// commands, fx application wiring, and process-level concerns such as
+// signal handling and the PID lock.
 package cli
 
 import (
 	"context"
+	"errors"
 	"fmt"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"sync"
+	"time"
 
-	"git.eeqj.de/sneak/vaultik/internal/config"
+	"github.com/adrg/xdg"
-	"git.eeqj.de/sneak/vaultik/internal/database"
+	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
-	"git.eeqj.de/sneak/vaultik/internal/globals"
+	"go.uber.org/dig"
 	"go.uber.org/fx"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/config"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/database"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/globals"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/log"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/pidlock"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/snapshot"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/storage"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/ui"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/vaultik"
 )
 
-// AppOptions contains common options for creating the fx application
+// shutdownTimeout bounds how long a signal-triggered graceful shutdown
+// may take before we give up.
+const shutdownTimeout = 30 * time.Second
+
+// lockMode says whether a command mutates persistent state — the local
+// index database or the remote store — and so must hold the process-wide
+// PID lock, or only reads that state and may run alongside a mutator.
+type lockMode int
+
+const (
+	// mutating commands (snapshot create, snapshot purge, snapshot remove,
+	// prune, remote nuke) write the local index or the remote store. They
+	// hold the PID lock so that at most one runs at a time.
+	mutating lockMode = iota
+	// readOnly commands (info, snapshot list, snapshot verify, remote info,
+	// snapshot restore) do not write the local index or the remote store,
+	// so they run without the lock and are never blocked by a running
+	// mutator. restore writes only to the target directory it is given.
+	readOnly
+)
+
+// AppOptions contains common options for creating and running the fx
+// application: the configuration file path, logging options, additional fx
+// modules and invocations, and whether the command mutates persistent
+// state (which decides whether it takes the PID lock).
 type AppOptions struct {
 	ConfigPath string
+	LogOptions log.Options
 	Modules    []fx.Option
 	Invokes    []fx.Option
+	Mode       lockMode
 }
 
-// NewApp creates a new fx application with common modules
+// setupGlobals records the startup time and, when an output-suppression
+// flag is active, marks the UI writer quiet so that Begin/Complete/
+// Info/Notice/Detail/Progress are silenced. Warning and Error are NOT
+// silenced — per the documented convention that --quiet suppresses
+// non-error output only. The startup banner is printed by Entry
+// before cobra parses arguments, gated by the same arg-level check.
+//
+// --json quiets the UI here too, because stdout then carries a JSON
+// document and human narration would corrupt it. Unlike Quiet it does
+// not lower the stderr log level (issue #112), so --verbose/--debug
+// still surface diagnostics alongside the document.
+func setupGlobals(
+	lc fx.Lifecycle, g *globals.Globals, v *vaultik.Vaultik, opts log.Options,
+) {
+	lc.Append(fx.Hook{
+		OnStart: func(_ context.Context) error {
+			g.StartTime = time.Now().UTC()
+
+			if opts.Cron || opts.Quiet || opts.JSON {
+				v.UI.SetQuiet(true)
+			}
+
+			return nil
+		},
+	})
+}
+
+// writeStartupBanner prints the two-line application banner followed by a
+// blank line. Used both from the fx hook (for subcommand invocations) and
+// from the root cobra Run handler (for `vaultik` with no subcommand).
+func writeStartupBanner(w *ui.Writer, startTime time.Time, shortCommit string) {
+	w.Bannerf("%s %s by %s (commit %s, built on %s) starting up at %s.",
+		globals.Appname, globals.Version, globals.Author,
+		shortCommit, globals.CommitDate,
+		startTime.Format(time.RFC3339))
+	w.Bannerf("%s", globals.Homepage)
+	w.Bannerf("")
+}
+
+// NewApp creates a new fx application with common modules.
+// It sets up the base modules (config, database, logging, globals) and
+// combines them with any additional modules specified in the options.
+// The returned fx.App is ready to be started with RunApp.
 func NewApp(opts AppOptions) *fx.App {
 	baseModules := []fx.Option{
-		fx.Supply(config.ConfigPath(opts.ConfigPath)),
+		fx.Supply(config.Path(opts.ConfigPath)),
+		fx.Supply(opts.LogOptions),
 		fx.Provide(globals.New),
+		fx.Provide(log.New),
 		config.Module,
 		database.Module,
+		log.Module,
+		storage.Module,
+		snapshot.Module,
+		fx.Provide(vaultik.New),
+		fx.Invoke(setupGlobals),
 		fx.NopLogger,
 	}
 
-	allOptions := append(baseModules, opts.Modules...)
+	capacity := len(baseModules) + len(opts.Modules) + len(opts.Invokes)
+	allOptions := make([]fx.Option, 0, capacity)
+	allOptions = append(allOptions, baseModules...)
+	allOptions = append(allOptions, opts.Modules...)
 	allOptions = append(allOptions, opts.Invokes...)
 
 	return fx.New(allOptions...)
 }
 
-// RunApp starts and stops the fx application within the given context
+// startupError carries a startup failure message that has been cleaned
+// of fx dependency-injection noise. A distinct type (rather than
+// errors.New) keeps the dynamic message out of err113's sight while
+// preserving the exact user-facing text.
+type startupError struct {
+	msg string
+}
+
+func (e *startupError) Error() string {
+	return e.msg
+}
+
+// cleanStartupError strips fx's dependency-injection call-chain noise from
+// startup errors. fx wraps the underlying error with messages like
+//
+//	could not build arguments for function "X" (file:line): failed to build T:
+//	could not build arguments for function "Y" (file:line): failed to build U:
+//	received non-nil error from function "Z" (file:line): <real error>
+//
+// Users care about the real error, not the DI plumbing. dig.RootCause,
+// from the library fx is built on, unwraps those layers and returns the
+// real error whole. Cutting the text at "): " instead would also cut a
+// real error that contains it, such as the blob_size_limit one.
+func cleanStartupError(err error) error {
+	return &startupError{msg: dig.RootCause(err).Error()}
+}
+
+// RunApp starts the fx application, blocks until it is asked to stop, and
+// then stops it. The app is asked to stop either by an OS interrupt
+// (SIGINT/SIGTERM — fx installs its own handler when app.Wait is called) or,
+// on normal completion, by the finished operation calling
+// Shutdowner.Shutdown(); both arrive on the app.Wait channel.
+//
+// Stopping runs the fx OnStop hooks, and RunApp does not return until Stop
+// returns. On an interrupt the operation's OnStop hook cancels the running
+// command and waits for it to unwind — removing its decrypted scratch files —
+// so the process cannot proceed to exit mid-cleanup (issue #159). Waiting for
+// Stop before returning is what makes that hook effective: routing the
+// interrupt through app.Stop and not returning until it completes is required,
+// because fx also fires the app.Wait channel on the signal, and an earlier
+// version returned on that alone — unwinding to os.Exit while the concurrent
+// cleanup still ran. The stop is bounded by shutdownTimeout. Returns an error
+// if startup fails.
 func RunApp(ctx context.Context, app *fx.App) error {
-	if err := app.Start(ctx); err != nil {
+	err := app.Start(ctx)
-		return fmt.Errorf("failed to start app: %w", err)
+	if err != nil {
+		return cleanStartupError(err)
+	}
+
+	// Block until an interrupt or the finished operation's
+	// Shutdowner.Shutdown() arrives, then stop the app in this goroutine so we
+	// return only after its OnStop hooks — including the operation's cleanup
+	// wait — have run. Detach the stop from ctx's cancellation but keep its
+	// values, and bound it by shutdownTimeout.
+	<-app.Wait()
+
+	shutdownCtx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(
+		context.WithoutCancel(ctx), shutdownTimeout)
+	defer cancel()
+
+	err = app.Stop(shutdownCtx)
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Error("Error during shutdown", "error", err)
 	}
-	defer func() {
-		if err := app.Stop(ctx); err != nil {
-			fmt.Printf("error stopping app: %v\n", err)
-		}
-	}()
 
-	// Wait for context cancellation
-	<-ctx.Done()
 	return nil
 }
 
-// RunWithApp is a helper that creates and runs an fx app with the given options
+// errReported marks a failure the operation has already shown the user
+// (or, under `snapshot verify --json`, put in its document). Entry
+// turns it into a non-zero exit status without printing anything
+// further, so the error line is not doubled. It flows up from
+// RunOperation through cobra to Entry.
+var errReported = errors.New("operation failed")
+
+// errInterrupted marks an operation that SIGINT or SIGTERM stopped
+// before it finished. Entry shows it and returns exitCodeInterrupted.
+var errInterrupted = errors.New("interrupted before the command finished")
+
+// RunOperation runs op against the Vaultik instance inside the fx app
+// and turns a failure into a returned error rather than an os.Exit from
+// within the goroutine. An os.Exit there skipped main's deferred
+// profile writers -- so profiling a failing command yielded a truncated
+// profile (issue #75) -- and RunWithApp's PID-lock release, and denied
+// the app any graceful shutdown; returning the error to the top runs
+// all three.
+//
+// op runs in a goroutine so OnStart returns promptly and an interrupt
+// can still cancel through OnStop; when it finishes, success or failure,
+// it triggers shutdown, which is what lets RunWithApp return. On an
+// interrupt OnStop cancels op and waits for the goroutine to return, so
+// op's cleanup (removing decrypted scratch files) runs before the
+// process exits; the wait is bounded by shutdownTimeout. report is
+// called with a failure so the caller can show it to the user before
+// it becomes errReported.
+//
+// The run counts as interrupted unless op returned, without an
+// interrupt having cancelled it, before RunWithApp returned. An
+// interrupted op is not reported, whatever it returned; RunOperation
+// returns errInterrupted instead.
+func RunOperation(
+	ctx context.Context, opts AppOptions,
+	op func(v *vaultik.Vaultik) error, report func(err error),
+) error {
+	var (
+		mu       sync.Mutex
+		finished bool // op returned before any interrupt cancelled it
+		failed   bool // op finished with an error
+	)
+
+	opts.Invokes = append(opts.Invokes,
+		fx.Invoke(func(v *vaultik.Vaultik, lc fx.Lifecycle) {
+			var stop func(context.Context) bool
+
+			lc.Append(fx.Hook{
+				OnStart: func(_ context.Context) error {
+					stop = v.StartOperation(func() {
+						err := op(v)
+
+						// Only stop, called from OnStop below, cancels the
+						// Vaultik context, so a live context means no
+						// interrupt cancelled op. Check the context, not
+						// err: an interrupted op need not return
+						// context.Canceled (`snapshot verify --json`
+						// returns a verification failure).
+						if v.Context().Err() == nil {
+							if err != nil {
+								report(err)
+							}
+
+							mu.Lock()
+							finished = true
+							failed = err != nil
+							mu.Unlock()
+						}
+
+						stopErr := v.Shutdowner.Shutdown()
+						if stopErr != nil {
+							log.Error("Failed to shutdown", "error", stopErr)
+						}
+					})
+
+					return nil
+				},
+				// On an interrupt, cancel the operation and wait for it to
+				// unwind so its cleanup defers (which remove decrypted
+				// scratch files from the temp directory) run before the
+				// process exits. The wait is bounded by ctx, the existing
+				// shutdownTimeout.
+				OnStop: func(ctx context.Context) error {
+					if !stop(ctx) {
+						log.Warn("Shutdown timed out before the operation " +
+							"finished; decrypted temporary files may remain")
+					}
+
+					return nil
+				},
+			})
+		}))
+
+	err := RunWithApp(ctx, opts)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	// RunWithApp returns only after the app was asked to stop, either by
+	// an interrupt or by the goroutine's Shutdown call. When op finished
+	// without being cancelled, the goroutine set finished before that
+	// call. So if finished is unset here, an interrupt stopped the app,
+	// and op either returned after it was cancelled or is still running
+	// because the shutdown timed out.
+	mu.Lock()
+	defer mu.Unlock()
+
+	switch {
+	case !finished:
+		return errInterrupted
+	case failed:
+		return errReported
+	default:
+		return nil
+	}
+}
+
+// runVaultikApp runs the standard single-operation command lifecycle
+// shared by the snapshot list/purge/remove and remote nuke subcommands:
+// resolve the config, then run op against the Vaultik instance through
+// RunOperation, reporting a failure prefixed with failMsg on stderr. mode
+// says whether the command takes the PID lock. jsonOutput marks a command
+// whose stdout is a JSON document: it quiets the UI but, unlike Quiet,
+// leaves the stderr log level alone.
+func runVaultikApp(
+	cmd *cobra.Command, mode lockMode, jsonOutput bool,
+	failMsg string, op func(v *vaultik.Vaultik) error,
+) error {
+	configPath, err := ResolveConfigPath()
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	rootFlags := GetRootFlags()
+
+	return RunOperation(cmd.Context(), AppOptions{
+		ConfigPath: configPath,
+		LogOptions: log.Options{
+			Verbose: rootFlags.Verbose,
+			Debug:   rootFlags.Debug,
+			Quiet:   rootFlags.Quiet,
+			JSON:    jsonOutput,
+		},
+		Mode: mode,
+	}, op, func(err error) {
+		log.Error(failMsg, "error", err)
+		ReportErrorf("%s: %v", failMsg, err)
+	})
+}
+
+// RunWithApp is a helper that creates and runs an fx app with the given options.
+// It combines NewApp and RunApp into a single convenient function. This is the
+// preferred way to run CLI commands that need the full application context.
+// A mutating command takes the process-wide PID lock before starting so that
+// only one runs at a time; a read-only command runs without it and is not
+// blocked while a mutator holds the lock (opts.Mode).
 func RunWithApp(ctx context.Context, opts AppOptions) error {
+	release, err := acquireLockIfMutating(opts.Mode,
+		filepath.Join(xdg.DataHome, "vaultik"))
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	defer release()
+
 	app := NewApp(opts)
+
 	return RunApp(ctx, app)
 }
+
+// acquireLockIfMutating takes the process-wide PID lock in lockDir for a
+// mutating command and returns a function that releases it. A read-only
+// command takes no lock, so it returns a no-op release and is never blocked
+// while a mutator holds the lock. ErrAlreadyRunning (another mutator holds
+// the lock) is surfaced as a "cannot start" error.
+func acquireLockIfMutating(mode lockMode, lockDir string) (func(), error) {
+	if mode != mutating {
+		return func() {}, nil
+	}
+
+	lock, err := pidlock.Acquire(lockDir)
+	if err != nil {
+		if errors.Is(err, pidlock.ErrAlreadyRunning) {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("cannot start: %w", err)
+		}
+
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to acquire lock: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	return func() {
+		err := lock.Release()
+		if err != nil {
+			log.Warn("Failed to release PID lock", "error", err)
+		}
+	}, nil
+}

internal/cli/app_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,104 @@
+package cli //nolint:testpackage // needs access to unexported cleanStartupError
+
+import (
+	"errors"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"testing"
+
+	"go.uber.org/fx"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/config"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/pidlock"
+)
+
+// TestCleanStartupError starts a real fx app whose config has a
+// blob_size_limit below the minimum. fx puts annotations naming the
+// functions it was building in front of the config error; only those
+// may be removed, although the config error itself contains "): ".
+func TestCleanStartupError(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	path := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "config.yml")
+
+	err := os.WriteFile(path, []byte("snapshots:\n"+
+		"  test:\n"+
+		"    paths: [/tmp/vaultik-test-source]\n"+
+		"storage_url: file:///tmp/vaultik-test-storage\n"+
+		"chunk_size: 10MB\n"+
+		"blob_size_limit: 30MB\n"), 0o600)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("write config: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	app := fx.New(
+		fx.NopLogger,
+		fx.Supply(config.Path(path)),
+		config.Module,
+		fx.Invoke(func(*config.Config) {}),
+	)
+
+	err = app.Start(t.Context())
+	if err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("app started; want a blob_size_limit error")
+	}
+
+	want := "failed to load config: invalid config: blob_size_limit must " +
+		"be at least the largest chunk the chunker can emit (chunk_size " +
+		"times the FastCDC size spread): need at least 40000000 bytes"
+
+	got := cleanStartupError(err).Error()
+	if got != want {
+		t.Errorf("got %q, want %q", got, want)
+	}
+}
+
+// TestCleanStartupErrorNotFromFx checks that an error fx did not wrap is
+// shown unchanged.
+func TestCleanStartupErrorNotFromFx(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	//nolint:err113 // a one-off error standing in for a startup failure
+	got := cleanStartupError(errors.New("plain error")).Error()
+	if got != "plain error" {
+		t.Errorf("got %q, want %q", got, "plain error")
+	}
+}
+
+// TestLockScopedToMutatingCommands proves the partition the PID lock now
+// enforces: a read-only command runs while a mutator holds the lock, and
+// two mutating commands still mutually exclude.
+func TestLockScopedToMutatingCommands(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	lockDir := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "vaultik")
+
+	// A mutating command takes the process-wide lock.
+	releaseMutator, err := acquireLockIfMutating(mutating, lockDir)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("mutating command could not acquire lock: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	// A read-only command runs to completion even while the lock is held.
+	releaseReader, err := acquireLockIfMutating(readOnly, lockDir)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("read-only command was blocked by held lock: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	releaseReader()
+
+	// A second mutating command is refused while the first holds the lock.
+	_, err = acquireLockIfMutating(mutating, lockDir)
+	if !errors.Is(err, pidlock.ErrAlreadyRunning) {
+		t.Fatalf("second mutating command was not excluded, got: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	// Once the first mutator releases, another mutating command may run.
+	releaseMutator()
+
+	release, err := acquireLockIfMutating(mutating, lockDir)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("mutating command could not acquire released lock: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	release()
+}

internal/cli/backup.go

@@ -1,83 +0,0 @@
-package cli
-
-import (
-	"context"
-	"fmt"
-	"os"
-
-	"git.eeqj.de/sneak/vaultik/internal/config"
-	"git.eeqj.de/sneak/vaultik/internal/database"
-	"git.eeqj.de/sneak/vaultik/internal/globals"
-	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
-	"go.uber.org/fx"
-)
-
-// BackupOptions contains options for the backup command
-type BackupOptions struct {
-	ConfigPath string
-	Daemon     bool
-	Cron       bool
-	Prune      bool
-}
-
-// NewBackupCommand creates the backup command
-func NewBackupCommand() *cobra.Command {
-	opts := &BackupOptions{}
-
-	cmd := &cobra.Command{
-		Use:   "backup",
-		Short: "Perform incremental backup",
-		Long: `Backup configured directories using incremental deduplication and encryption.
-
-Config is located at /etc/vaultik/config.yml, but can be overridden by specifying 
-a path using --config or by setting VAULTIK_CONFIG to a path.`,
-		Args: cobra.NoArgs,
-		RunE: func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
-			// If --config not specified, check environment variable
-			if opts.ConfigPath == "" {
-				opts.ConfigPath = os.Getenv("VAULTIK_CONFIG")
-			}
-			// If still not specified, use default
-			if opts.ConfigPath == "" {
-				defaultConfig := "/etc/vaultik/config.yml"
-				if _, err := os.Stat(defaultConfig); err == nil {
-					opts.ConfigPath = defaultConfig
-				} else {
-					return fmt.Errorf("no config file specified, VAULTIK_CONFIG not set, and %s not found", defaultConfig)
-				}
-			}
-			return runBackup(cmd.Context(), opts)
-		},
-	}
-
-	cmd.Flags().StringVar(&opts.ConfigPath, "config", "", "Path to config file")
-	cmd.Flags().BoolVar(&opts.Daemon, "daemon", false, "Run in daemon mode with inotify monitoring")
-	cmd.Flags().BoolVar(&opts.Cron, "cron", false, "Run in cron mode (silent unless error)")
-	cmd.Flags().BoolVar(&opts.Prune, "prune", false, "Delete all previous snapshots and unreferenced blobs after backup")
-
-	return cmd
-}
-
-func runBackup(ctx context.Context, opts *BackupOptions) error {
-	return RunWithApp(ctx, AppOptions{
-		ConfigPath: opts.ConfigPath,
-		Invokes: []fx.Option{
-			fx.Invoke(func(g *globals.Globals, cfg *config.Config, repos *database.Repositories) error {
-				// TODO: Implement backup logic
-				fmt.Printf("Running backup with config: %s\n", opts.ConfigPath)
-				fmt.Printf("Version: %s, Commit: %s\n", g.Version, g.Commit)
-				fmt.Printf("Index path: %s\n", cfg.IndexPath)
-				if opts.Daemon {
-					fmt.Println("Running in daemon mode")
-				}
-				if opts.Cron {
-					fmt.Println("Running in cron mode")
-				}
-				if opts.Prune {
-					fmt.Println("Pruning enabled - will delete old snapshots after backup")
-				}
-				return nil
-			}),
-		},
-	})
-}

internal/cli/config.go

@@ -0,0 +1,849 @@
+package cli
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"os"
+	"os/exec"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"reflect"
+	"slices"
+	"strconv"
+	"strings"
+	"unicode/utf8"
+
+	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
+	"gopkg.in/yaml.v3"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/config"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/ui"
+)
+
+// configFileMode is the permission set for freshly written config files;
+// configs may hold S3 credentials, so keep them owner-only.
+const configFileMode = 0o600
+
+// configSetArgs is the argument count of `config set <key> <value>`.
+const configSetArgs = 2
+
+// configDirMode is the permission set for created config directories;
+// parent config dirs (e.g. ~/.config) are conventionally traversable.
+const configDirMode = 0o755
+
+// configYAMLIndent matches the 2-space indentation of defaultConfigTemplate,
+// so `config set` writes the file back with the same indentation rather than
+// yaml.Marshal's 4-space default.
+const configYAMLIndent = 2
+
+// yamlStringTag is YAML's tag for a string scalar.
+const yamlStringTag = "!!str"
+
+var (
+	errConfigExists     = errors.New("config file already exists")
+	errEmptyConfig      = errors.New("empty config file")
+	errKeyNotFound      = errors.New("key not found")
+	errNeedNumericIndex = errors.New("key is a list; use a numeric index")
+	errIndexOutOfRange  = errors.New("index out of range")
+	errNotMapOrList     = errors.New("key is not a map or list")
+	errWouldNotLoad     = errors.New(
+		"vaultik would not load the config after this change, " +
+			"so the file was not changed")
+)
+
+const defaultConfigTemplate = `# vaultik configuration
+# Documentation: https://sneak.berlin/go/vaultik
+
+# ─── REQUIRED ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+# Age recipient public keys for encryption. snapshot create needs at least
+# one; listing, verifying and restoring do not, so a machine that only
+# restores can leave this empty.
+# Backups are encrypted to ALL listed recipients; any one of the corresponding
+# private keys can decrypt. Adding a recipient later does not re-encrypt data
+# already stored: deduplicated chunks and existing blobs stay encrypted to the
+# earlier recipients, so a newly added key cannot restore them on its own (see
+# docs/REPOSTRUCTURE.md, Accepted Risks). Generate a keypair and add its
+# public key with:
+#   age-keygen -o vaultik_backup_private_key.txt
+#   grep 'public key' vaultik_backup_private_key.txt
+#   vaultik config set age_recipients.0 age1...
+age_recipients: []
+
+# Named snapshots. Each snapshot backs up one or more paths and can have its
+# own exclude patterns in addition to the global excludes below.
+#
+# Exclude pattern semantics:
+#   - Patterns starting with / are anchored to the snapshot path root
+#     (e.g. "/Library/Caches" matches only ~/Library/Caches in a ~ snapshot)
+#   - Patterns without a leading / match anywhere in the tree
+#     (e.g. ".cache" matches any directory named .cache at any depth)
+#   - Globs are supported: *, **, ?
+snapshots:
+  home:
+    paths:
+      - "~"
+    exclude:
+      # Trash, temp, and filesystem metadata
+      - "/.Trash"
+      - "/.Trashes"
+      - "/.fseventsd"
+      - "/.Spotlight-V100"
+      - "/.TemporaryItems"
+      - "/tmp"
+      - "/.rnd"
+      - ".DS_Store"
+      # Caches and package manager state (rebuildable)
+      - ".cache"
+      - ".bundle"
+      - "/.cpan/build"
+      - "/.cpan/sources"
+      - "/.gradle/caches"
+      - "/.dropbox"
+      - "/.minikube/cache"
+      - "/.local/share/containers/podman/machine"
+      - "/.persepolis"
+      - "/Library/Caches"
+      - "/Library/Logs"
+      - "/Library/Cookies"
+      - "/Library/Metadata"
+      - "/Library/Suggestions"
+      - "/Library/PubSub"
+      - "/Library/Homebrew"
+      - "/Library/Developer"
+      - "/Library/Google/GoogleSoftwareUpdate"
+      - "/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player"
+      - "/Library/Preferences/SDMHelpData"
+      - "/Library/VoiceTrigger/SAT"
+      # Language/toolchain package caches (rebuildable from registries)
+      - "/.npm"
+      - "/.cargo/registry"
+      - "/.cargo/git"
+      - "/.rustup/toolchains"
+      - "/go/pkg/mod"
+      - "/.m2/repository"
+      - "/.vagrant.d/boxes"
+      - "node_modules"
+      - "__pycache__"
+      - ".venv"
+      # Virtual machine disk images (huge; remove these lines to back them up)
+      - "/Parallels"
+      - "/Virtual Machines.localized"
+      - "/VirtualBox VMs"
+      - "/.orbstack"
+      - "/Library/Containers/com.utmapp.UTM"
+      # Downloaded LLM models (huge, re-downloadable)
+      - "/.ollama/models"
+      - "/.lmstudio/models"
+      # Cloud-synced storage. These are synced to a provider already, and on
+      # modern macOS may contain dataless placeholder files that the backup
+      # would force-download in full.
+      - "/Library/CloudStorage"
+      - "/Library/Mobile Documents"
+      # Android SDK and emulator images (re-downloadable)
+      - "/Library/Android/sdk"
+      - "/.android/avd"
+      # Cloud-synced or restorable-from-server data
+      - "/Library/Mail"
+      - "/Library/Mail Downloads"
+      - "/Library/Safari"
+      - "/Library/Application Support/Evernote"
+      - "/Library/Application Support/MobileSync"
+      - "/Library/Application Support/SyncServices"
+      - "/Library/Application Support/protonmail/bridge/cache"
+      - "/Library/Application Support/Syncthing/index-*"
+      - "/Library/Syncthing/folders"
+      - "/Documents/Dropbox/.dropbox.cache"
+      # Large rebuildable app data (games, media caches, device backups)
+      - "/Applications/Fortnite"
+      - "/Documents/Steam Content"
+      - "/Library/Application Support/Ableton"
+      - "/Library/Application Support/CrossOver Games"
+      - "/Library/Application Support/SecondLife/cache"
+      - "/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps"
+      - "/Library/Containers/com.docker.docker"
+      - "/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.secure-control-center-preferences"
+      - "/Library/iTunes/iPad Software Updates"
+      - "/Library/iTunes/iPhone Software Updates"
+      - "/Movies/CacheClip"
+      - "/Movies/ProxyMedia"
+      - "/Music/iTunes/Album Artwork"
+      - "/Pictures/iPod Photo Cache"
+
+  # Third-party applications. OS-provided apps live in /System/Applications
+  # on modern macOS and are never in /Applications, but Apple-installed
+  # App Store apps (Safari, GarageBand, iWork, iMovie) are excluded since
+  # they are re-downloadable.
+  apps:
+    paths:
+      - /Applications
+    exclude:
+      - ".DS_Store"
+      - "/Safari.app"
+      - "/GarageBand.app"
+      - "/iMovie.app"
+      - "/Keynote.app"
+      - "/Numbers.app"
+      - "/Pages.app"
+      - "/Xcode.app"
+      - "/Spotify.app"
+      - "/Steam.app"
+      - "/VirtualBox.app"
+      - "/Utilities/Adobe Installers"
+
+# Storage backend (pick ONE of the three forms below).
+#
+# S3-compatible:
+#   storage_url: "s3://mybucket/backups?endpoint=s3.example.com&region=us-east-1"
+#   (also set s3.access_key_id and s3.secret_access_key below)
+#
+# Local filesystem:
+#   storage_url: "file:///mnt/backups/vaultik"
+#
+# Rclone (requires rclone configured separately):
+#   storage_url: "rclone://myremote/path/to/backups"
+storage_url: ""
+
+# ─── S3 CREDENTIALS (required for s3:// storage_url) ────────────────────────
+
+# s3:
+#   access_key_id: YOUR_ACCESS_KEY
+#   secret_access_key: YOUR_SECRET_KEY
+#   # region: us-east-1        # Default: us-east-1
+#   # part_size: 5MiB          # Upload part size, 5MiB to 5GiB. Default: 5MiB
+#   # For the s3:// form, disable TLS with ?ssl=false in the URL, not use_ssl.
+
+# ─── OPTIONAL ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+# Global exclude patterns applied to ALL snapshots.
+# Snapshot-specific excludes are additive.
+# exclude:
+#   - "*.log"
+#   - "*.tmp"
+#   - ".git"
+#   - "node_modules"
+
+# Average chunk size for content-defined chunking (FastCDC).
+# Smaller = better deduplication but more metadata overhead.
+# Minimum 1MB. Accepts: 1MB, 10M, 64MiB, etc.
+# Default: 10MB
+# chunk_size: 10MB
+
+# Maximum blob size before splitting into a new blob.
+# Must be at least four times chunk_size (the largest chunk the chunker can
+# emit); a smaller limit would let a single-chunk blob exceed it.
+# Accepts: 1GB, 10G, 500MB, etc.
+# Default: 10GB
+# blob_size_limit: 10GB
+
+# Zstd compression level (1-19). Higher = better ratio but slower.
+# Default: 3
+# compression_level: 3
+
+# How old a blob that no snapshot lists must be before prune deletes it,
+# and how old every object in a directory under metadata/ with no manifest
+# must be before prune deletes that directory. A backup uploads its blobs
+# and its db.zst.age before its manifest, so on a destination shared
+# between hosts or users this must be longer than the longest backup run.
+# It does not protect a blob a backup reuses from an earlier run that
+# stopped before its manifest: that blob keeps the time of its first
+# upload, so a prune can delete it.
+# Accepts: 36h, 90m, etc. 0s deletes such blobs and directories at once.
+# Default: 24h
+# prune_grace_period: 24h
+
+# Hostname used in snapshot IDs. Default: system hostname.
+# hostname: myserver
+
+# Path to the local SQLite index database.
+# Default: the platform data directory, e.g.
+#   macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/vaultik/index.sqlite
+#   Linux: ~/.local/share/vaultik/index.sqlite
+# index_path: /path/to/index.sqlite
+`
+
+// NewConfigCommand creates the config command group.
+func NewConfigCommand() *cobra.Command {
+	cmd := &cobra.Command{
+		Use:   "config",
+		Short: "Manage the configuration file",
+		Long:  "Commands for creating, editing, and querying the vaultik config file.",
+		// cobra checks Args only on a command that has a Run: without
+		// one, a mistyped subcommand printed help and exited 0.
+		Args: cobra.NoArgs,
+		Run: func(cmd *cobra.Command, _ []string) {
+			_ = cmd.Help()
+		},
+	}
+
+	cmd.AddCommand(newConfigInitCommand())
+	cmd.AddCommand(newConfigEditCommand())
+	cmd.AddCommand(newConfigGetCommand())
+	cmd.AddCommand(newConfigSetCommand())
+
+	return cmd
+}
+
+// newConfigInitCommand creates the 'config init' subcommand.
+func newConfigInitCommand() *cobra.Command {
+	return &cobra.Command{
+		Use:   "init",
+		Short: "Write a default config file",
+		Long: `Creates a default configuration file with commented explanations
+for the settings it lists. If a config file already exists at the target
+path, the command refuses to overwrite it. The file is created with mode
+0600, because it can hold credentials.
+
+The config is written to the path from --config, $VAULTIK_CONFIG, or
+config.yml in the platform default config directory
+(~/Library/Application Support/vaultik/ on macOS, ~/.config/vaultik/ on
+Linux, /etc/vaultik/ as root).`,
+		Args: cobra.NoArgs,
+		RunE: func(cmd *cobra.Command, _ []string) error {
+			path := configPathForInit()
+
+			_, err := os.Stat(path)
+			if err == nil {
+				return fmt.Errorf("%w: %s", errConfigExists, path)
+			}
+
+			dir := filepath.Dir(path)
+
+			err = os.MkdirAll(dir, configDirMode)
+			if err != nil {
+				return fmt.Errorf("creating config directory %s: %w", dir, err)
+			}
+
+			err = os.WriteFile(path, []byte(defaultConfigTemplate), configFileMode)
+			if err != nil {
+				return fmt.Errorf("writing config file: %w", err)
+			}
+
+			// A written-confirmation, not scriptable output: route it
+			// through the UI so it is styled and --quiet silences it.
+			out := commandUI(cmd)
+			out.Infof("Config written to %s.", path)
+			out.Infof(
+				"Edit it to set your age_recipients, snapshots, and storage_url.")
+
+			return nil
+		},
+	}
+}
+
+// newConfigEditCommand creates the 'config edit' subcommand.
+func newConfigEditCommand() *cobra.Command {
+	return &cobra.Command{
+		Use:   "edit",
+		Short: "Open the config file in $EDITOR (vi when it is not set)",
+		Args:  cobra.NoArgs,
+		RunE: func(cmd *cobra.Command, _ []string) error {
+			path, err := ResolveConfigPath()
+			if err != nil {
+				return err
+			}
+
+			editor := os.Getenv("EDITOR")
+			if editor == "" {
+				editor = "vi"
+			}
+
+			// Run $EDITOR through the shell, as git does, so a value
+			// with arguments such as "code --wait" works. The path
+			// goes in as an argument ("$@"), not into the command
+			// text, so a path with spaces or quotes arrives whole.
+			// sh -c takes the word after the command as $0, which
+			// is why editor appears twice.
+			//nolint:gosec // G204: launching the operator's own $EDITOR is the point
+			ed := exec.CommandContext(cmd.Context(),
+				"sh", "-c", editor+` "$@"`, editor, path)
+			ed.Stdin = os.Stdin
+			ed.Stdout = os.Stdout
+			ed.Stderr = os.Stderr
+
+			return ed.Run()
+		},
+	}
+}
+
+// newConfigGetCommand creates the 'config get' subcommand.
+func newConfigGetCommand() *cobra.Command {
+	return &cobra.Command{
+		Use:   "get <key>",
+		Short: "Print a config value by dotted path (e.g. storage_url, compression_level)",
+		Args:  cobra.ExactArgs(1),
+		RunE: func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
+			path, err := ResolveConfigPath()
+			if err != nil {
+				return err
+			}
+
+			root, err := loadYAMLFile(path)
+			if err != nil {
+				return err
+			}
+
+			node, err := yamlPathGet(root, strings.Split(args[0], "."))
+			if err != nil {
+				return err
+			}
+
+			// The value is scriptable output: it must stay machine-plain
+			// (no marker, no color) and is never silenced by --quiet, so it
+			// is written straight to stdout rather than through the UI.
+			w := cmd.OutOrStdout()
+
+			if node.Kind == yaml.ScalarNode {
+				_, _ = fmt.Fprintln(w, node.Value)
+
+				return nil
+			}
+
+			out, err := yaml.Marshal(node)
+			if err != nil {
+				return fmt.Errorf("marshaling value: %w", err)
+			}
+
+			_, _ = fmt.Fprint(w, string(out))
+
+			return nil
+		},
+	}
+}
+
+// newConfigSetCommand creates the 'config set' subcommand.
+func newConfigSetCommand() *cobra.Command {
+	return &cobra.Command{
+		Use:   "set <key> <value>",
+		Short: "Set a config value by dotted path (e.g. compression_level 5)",
+		Long: `Sets a scalar config value addressed by dotted YAML path and writes
+the file back, preserving comments and formatting. Missing keys along
+the path are created: as a list when the next path element is a
+number, otherwise as a map.
+
+If the config loads, a change after which it would not, such as
+compression_level 99, is refused and the file is left unchanged. A
+config that does not load, such as the one config init writes before
+storage_url is set or one with a ${ENV:...} reference to a variable
+not set here, is checked one setting at a time: only a change after
+which the changed setting cannot be read, such as one giving it the
+wrong type, is refused.
+
+Examples:
+  vaultik config set storage_url "file:///mnt/backups"
+  vaultik config set storage_url "s3://bucket/prefix?endpoint=host&region=us-east-1"
+  vaultik config set compression_level 9
+  vaultik config set s3.bucket mybucket  # legacy S3 fields still supported`,
+		Args: cobra.ExactArgs(configSetArgs),
+		RunE: func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
+			path, err := ResolveConfigPath()
+			if err != nil {
+				return err
+			}
+
+			return writeConfigSet(commandUI(cmd), path, args[0], args[1])
+		},
+	}
+}
+
+// writeConfigSet applies key=value to the config at path, writes it back
+// owner-only, and confirms the write by naming just the key through the
+// UI writer (styled, and silenced by --quiet). The value is never
+// echoed: it may be a secret such as s3.secret_access_key, and captured
+// stdout or a pasted terminal would then leak it.
+func writeConfigSet(out *ui.Writer, path, key, value string) error {
+	root, err := loadYAMLFile(path)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	oldData, err := marshalConfigYAML(root)
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("marshaling config: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	keys := strings.Split(key, ".")
+
+	err = yamlPathSet(root, keys, value)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	data, err := marshalConfigYAML(root)
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("marshaling config: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	setting, err := yamlPathOnly(root, keys)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	settingData, err := marshalConfigYAML(setting)
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("marshaling config: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	err = checkConfigChange(oldData, data, settingData)
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("%w: %w", errWouldNotLoad, err)
+	}
+
+	err = os.WriteFile(path, data, configFileMode)
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("writing config file: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	// os.WriteFile does not change the mode of a file that already exists,
+	// so a config that was group- or world-readable stays that way. As it
+	// may hold S3 credentials, tighten it to owner-only after writing.
+	info, statErr := os.Stat(path)
+	if statErr == nil && info.Mode().Perm()&0o044 != 0 {
+		err = os.Chmod(path, configFileMode)
+		if err != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("tightening config file permissions: %w", err)
+		}
+	}
+
+	out.Infof("Set %s.", key)
+
+	return nil
+}
+
+// checkConfigChange returns the reason vaultik would not load newData, the
+// config after a change, if the change brings that failure in. If oldData,
+// the config before it, loads, the new one must load too. A config that
+// does not load, such as one still being filled in or one with a ${...}
+// reference that cannot be filled in here, is checked one setting at a
+// time: settingData, the changed setting on its own, must decode into the
+// config type.
+func checkConfigChange(oldData, newData, settingData []byte) error {
+	oldCfg, err := config.Parse(oldData)
+	if err == nil && oldCfg.Validate() == nil {
+		newCfg, err := config.Parse(newData)
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+
+		return newCfg.Validate()
+	}
+
+	_, err = config.Parse(settingData)
+
+	return err
+}
+
+// yamlPathOnly returns a document holding only the value at the dotted key
+// path in root, inside the maps and lists that lead to it there.
+func yamlPathOnly(root *yaml.Node, keys []string) (*yaml.Node, error) {
+	node, err := yamlPathGet(root, keys)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	for i, key := range slices.Backward(keys) {
+		parent, err := yamlPathGet(root, keys[:i])
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+
+		if parent.Kind == yaml.SequenceNode {
+			node = &yaml.Node{
+				Kind: yaml.SequenceNode, Content: []*yaml.Node{node},
+			}
+		} else {
+			keyNode := &yaml.Node{Kind: yaml.ScalarNode, Value: key}
+			node = &yaml.Node{
+				Kind: yaml.MappingNode, Content: []*yaml.Node{keyNode, node},
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	return &yaml.Node{Kind: yaml.DocumentNode, Content: []*yaml.Node{node}}, nil
+}
+
+// marshalConfigYAML renders a config document tree with 2-space indentation,
+// matching defaultConfigTemplate. yaml.Marshal defaults to 4 spaces, which
+// would reindent the whole file on the first `config set` despite the promise
+// to preserve formatting.
+func marshalConfigYAML(root *yaml.Node) ([]byte, error) {
+	var buf bytes.Buffer
+
+	enc := yaml.NewEncoder(&buf)
+	enc.SetIndent(configYAMLIndent)
+
+	err := enc.Encode(root)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	err = enc.Close()
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	return buf.Bytes(), nil
+}
+
+// loadYAMLFile parses a YAML file into a yaml.Node document tree,
+// which preserves comments and ordering for round-tripping.
+func loadYAMLFile(path string) (*yaml.Node, error) {
+	data, err := os.ReadFile(path) //nolint:gosec // G304: config path is operator-supplied
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("reading config file: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	var root yaml.Node
+
+	err = yaml.Unmarshal(data, &root)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("parsing config file: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	// An empty file yields a zero node; normalize to an empty mapping document.
+	if root.Kind == 0 {
+		root = yaml.Node{
+			Kind:    yaml.DocumentNode,
+			Content: []*yaml.Node{{Kind: yaml.MappingNode}},
+		}
+	}
+
+	return &root, nil
+}
+
+// yamlPathGet navigates a dotted key path through mapping and sequence
+// nodes and returns the value node. Numeric path components index into
+// sequences (e.g. "age_recipients.0").
+func yamlPathGet(root *yaml.Node, keys []string) (*yaml.Node, error) {
+	node := root
+	if node.Kind == yaml.DocumentNode {
+		if len(node.Content) == 0 {
+			return nil, errEmptyConfig
+		}
+
+		node = node.Content[0]
+	}
+
+	for i, key := range keys {
+		switch node.Kind {
+		case yaml.MappingNode:
+			found := false
+
+			for j := 0; j+1 < len(node.Content); j += 2 {
+				if node.Content[j].Value == key {
+					node = node.Content[j+1]
+					found = true
+
+					break
+				}
+			}
+
+			if !found {
+				return nil, fmt.Errorf("%w: %s",
+					errKeyNotFound, strings.Join(keys[:i+1], "."))
+			}
+		case yaml.SequenceNode:
+			idx, err := strconv.Atoi(key)
+			if err != nil {
+				return nil, fmt.Errorf("%w: %s",
+					errNeedNumericIndex, strings.Join(keys[:i], "."))
+			}
+
+			if idx < 0 || idx >= len(node.Content) {
+				return nil, fmt.Errorf("%w: index %d for %s (len %d)",
+					errIndexOutOfRange, idx, strings.Join(keys[:i], "."),
+					len(node.Content))
+			}
+
+			node = node.Content[idx]
+		case yaml.DocumentNode, yaml.ScalarNode, yaml.AliasNode:
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("%w: %s",
+				errNotMapOrList, strings.Join(keys[:i], "."))
+		default:
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("%w: %s",
+				errNotMapOrList, strings.Join(keys[:i], "."))
+		}
+	}
+
+	return node, nil
+}
+
+// yamlPathSet navigates a dotted key path, creating missing keys as needed,
+// and sets the final key to the given scalar value. Numeric path
+// components index into sequences; an index equal to the sequence length
+// appends a new element (e.g. "age_recipients.1" on a 1-element list).
+func yamlPathSet(root *yaml.Node, keys []string, value string) error {
+	node := root
+	if node.Kind == yaml.DocumentNode {
+		if len(node.Content) == 0 {
+			node.Content = []*yaml.Node{{Kind: yaml.MappingNode}}
+		}
+
+		node = node.Content[0]
+	}
+
+	for i := range keys {
+		last := i == len(keys)-1
+
+		switch node.Kind {
+		case yaml.MappingNode:
+			node = yamlSetInMapping(node, keys, i, value, last)
+		case yaml.SequenceNode:
+			next, err := yamlSetInSequence(node, keys, i, value, last)
+			if err != nil {
+				return err
+			}
+
+			node = next
+		case yaml.DocumentNode, yaml.ScalarNode, yaml.AliasNode:
+			return fmt.Errorf("%w: %s",
+				errNotMapOrList, strings.Join(keys[:i], "."))
+		default:
+			return fmt.Errorf("%w: %s",
+				errNotMapOrList, strings.Join(keys[:i], "."))
+		}
+	}
+
+	// config.Load reads the file through untyped YAML, which turns an
+	// unquoted 00112233 into the number 38043 and 1e5 into 100000. Tagging
+	// a string setting as a string makes the encoder quote such a value.
+	// Other settings stay unquoted, so compression_level 9 is a number.
+	// The encoder refuses to write a value that is not valid UTF-8 as a
+	// string. Left untagged, such a value is written as base64 !!binary and
+	// loads back unchanged.
+	if configKeyIsString(keys) && utf8.ValidString(value) {
+		node.Tag = yamlStringTag
+	}
+
+	return nil
+}
+
+// configKeyIsString reports whether the dotted key names a string in
+// config.Config, following the fields' yaml tags, as s3.access_key_id and
+// snapshots.home.exclude.0 do.
+func configKeyIsString(keys []string) bool {
+	typ := reflect.TypeFor[config.Config]()
+
+	for _, key := range keys {
+		switch {
+		case typ.Kind() == reflect.Map || typ.Kind() == reflect.Slice:
+			// The key is a snapshot name or a list index.
+			typ = typ.Elem()
+		case typ.Kind() == reflect.Struct:
+			field, ok := yamlField(typ, key)
+			if !ok {
+				return false
+			}
+
+			typ = field.Type
+		default:
+			return false
+		}
+	}
+
+	return typ.Kind() == reflect.String
+}
+
+// yamlField returns the field of struct type typ whose yaml tag names key.
+func yamlField(typ reflect.Type, key string) (reflect.StructField, bool) {
+	for field := range typ.Fields() {
+		name, _, _ := strings.Cut(field.Tag.Get("yaml"), ",")
+		if name == key {
+			return field, true
+		}
+	}
+
+	return reflect.StructField{}, false
+}
+
+// yamlSetInMapping resolves (creating if needed) the value node for the
+// path element keys[i] within a mapping node, setting it to value when it
+// is the final path element, and returns the node to descend into.
+func yamlSetInMapping(
+	node *yaml.Node, keys []string, i int, value string, last bool,
+) *yaml.Node {
+	var valueNode *yaml.Node
+
+	for j := 0; j+1 < len(node.Content); j += 2 {
+		if node.Content[j].Value == keys[i] {
+			valueNode = node.Content[j+1]
+
+			break
+		}
+	}
+
+	if valueNode == nil {
+		keyNode := &yaml.Node{Kind: yaml.ScalarNode, Value: keys[i]}
+		valueNode = newPathNode(keys, i, value)
+		node.Content = append(node.Content, keyNode, valueNode)
+	} else if last {
+		setScalar(valueNode, value)
+	}
+
+	return valueNode
+}
+
+// yamlSetInSequence indexes (or appends to) a sequence node using the
+// numeric path element keys[i], setting the element to value when it is
+// the final path element, and returns the node to descend into.
+func yamlSetInSequence(
+	node *yaml.Node, keys []string, i int, value string, last bool,
+) (*yaml.Node, error) {
+	idx, err := strconv.Atoi(keys[i])
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("%w: %s",
+			errNeedNumericIndex, strings.Join(keys[:i], "."))
+	}
+
+	if idx < 0 || idx > len(node.Content) {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("%w: index %d for %s (len %d)",
+			errIndexOutOfRange, idx, strings.Join(keys[:i], "."),
+			len(node.Content))
+	}
+
+	if idx == len(node.Content) {
+		node.Content = append(node.Content, newPathNode(keys, i, value))
+	} else if last {
+		setScalar(node.Content[idx], value)
+	}
+
+	return node.Content[idx], nil
+}
+
+// newPathNode returns the node to create for the missing path element
+// keys[i]: the value when it is the final path element, otherwise an empty
+// list when the next path element is a number and an empty map when not.
+func newPathNode(keys []string, i int, value string) *yaml.Node {
+	if i == len(keys)-1 {
+		return &yaml.Node{Kind: yaml.ScalarNode, Value: value}
+	}
+
+	_, err := strconv.Atoi(keys[i+1])
+	if err == nil {
+		return &yaml.Node{Kind: yaml.SequenceNode}
+	}
+
+	return &yaml.Node{Kind: yaml.MappingNode}
+}
+
+// setScalar overwrites a node in place with a plain scalar value.
+func setScalar(n *yaml.Node, value string) {
+	n.Kind = yaml.ScalarNode
+	n.Tag = ""
+	n.Value = value
+	n.Content = nil
+	n.Style = 0
+}
+
+// configPathForInit returns the config path to write, checking --config flag,
+// VAULTIK_CONFIG env, and the platform default.
+func configPathForInit() string {
+	if rootFlags.ConfigPath != "" {
+		return rootFlags.ConfigPath
+	}
+
+	if envPath := os.Getenv("VAULTIK_CONFIG"); envPath != "" {
+		return envPath
+	}
+
+	return DefaultConfigPath()
+}

internal/cli/config_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,680 @@
+package cli //nolint:testpackage // exercises unexported yamlPathGet/yamlPathSet
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"strconv"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"gopkg.in/yaml.v3"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/config"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/ui"
+)
+
+// TestDefaultConfigTemplateParses ensures the init template is valid YAML
+// that unmarshals into the Config struct with the expected snapshots.
+func TestDefaultConfigTemplateParses(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	var cfg config.Config
+
+	err := yaml.Unmarshal([]byte(defaultConfigTemplate), &cfg)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("default config template is not valid YAML: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	// A placeholder recipient would fail config.Load, so the template
+	// leaves the list empty.
+	if len(cfg.AgeRecipients) != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("expected no age recipients, got %d", len(cfg.AgeRecipients))
+	}
+
+	home, ok := cfg.Snapshots["home"]
+	if !ok {
+		t.Fatal("expected 'home' snapshot in default config")
+	}
+
+	if len(home.Paths) == 0 {
+		t.Error("home snapshot should have at least one path")
+	}
+
+	if len(home.Exclude) == 0 {
+		t.Error("home snapshot should have exclude patterns")
+	}
+
+	apps, ok := cfg.Snapshots["apps"]
+	if !ok {
+		t.Fatal("expected 'apps' snapshot in default config")
+	}
+
+	if len(apps.Paths) != 1 || apps.Paths[0] != "/Applications" {
+		t.Errorf("apps snapshot should back up /Applications, got %v", apps.Paths)
+	}
+
+	if len(apps.Exclude) == 0 {
+		t.Error("apps snapshot should have exclude patterns")
+	}
+}
+
+// testRecipient is a valid age public key.
+const testRecipient = "age1278m9q7dp3chsh2dcy82qk27v047zywyvtxwnj4cvt0z65jw6a7q5dqhfj"
+
+// TestConfigSetRecipientOnFreshConfig follows the README's getting started
+// steps: on the file `config init` writes, `config set age_recipients.0` and
+// `config set storage_url` give a config that loads with that recipient.
+// Neither is refused, although the config does not load until both are set;
+// once it loads, a recipient that is not a valid key is.
+func TestConfigSetRecipientOnFreshConfig(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	path := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "config.yml")
+
+	err := os.WriteFile(path, []byte(defaultConfigTemplate), configFileMode)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("write config: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	out := ui.NewWithColor(&bytes.Buffer{}, false)
+
+	err = writeConfigSet(out, path, "age_recipients.0", testRecipient)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("config set age_recipients.0: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	err = writeConfigSet(out, path, "storage_url", "file:///mnt/backups")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("config set storage_url: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	cfg, err := config.Load(path)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("config.Load: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	if len(cfg.AgeRecipients) != 1 || cfg.AgeRecipients[0] != testRecipient {
+		t.Errorf("age_recipients = %v, want [%s]", cfg.AgeRecipients, testRecipient)
+	}
+
+	err = writeConfigSet(out, path, "age_recipients.0", "notakey")
+	if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "not a valid recipient") {
+		t.Errorf("config set age_recipients.0 notakey gives error %v, "+
+			"want one saying it is not a valid recipient", err)
+	}
+
+	_, err = config.Load(path)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Errorf("config.Load after the refused change: %v", err)
+	}
+}
+
+// configWithoutRecipients loads, but has no age_recipients key and no
+// snapshot named work.
+const configWithoutRecipients = `storage_url: file:///mnt/backups
+snapshots:
+  home:
+    paths:
+      - "~"
+`
+
+// configWithUnsetReference loads only where VAULTIK_TEST_UNSET_SECRET is
+// set, as a backup job's environment might set it. No test sets it.
+const configWithUnsetReference = configWithoutRecipients + `s3:
+  secret_access_key: ${ENV:VAULTIK_TEST_UNSET_SECRET}
+`
+
+// configWithLevelReference returns configWithoutRecipients with a ${FILE:...}
+// reference on compression_level to a file holding 9, so that the config
+// loads once the reference is filled in.
+func configWithLevelReference(t *testing.T) string {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	levelPath := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "level")
+
+	err := os.WriteFile(levelPath, []byte("9"), configFileMode)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("write level: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	return configWithoutRecipients +
+		"compression_level: ${FILE:" + levelPath + "}\n"
+}
+
+// TestConfigSetIndexUnderMissingKey checks that a list index under a key
+// the file does not have creates a list, and that the result loads.
+func TestConfigSetIndexUnderMissingKey(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	tests := []struct {
+		key   string
+		value string
+		field func(cfg *config.Config) []string
+	}{
+		{"age_recipients.0", testRecipient,
+			func(cfg *config.Config) []string { return cfg.AgeRecipients }},
+		{"snapshots.work.paths.0", "/srv/work",
+			func(cfg *config.Config) []string { return cfg.Snapshots["work"].Paths }},
+	}
+
+	for _, tt := range tests {
+		t.Run(tt.key, func(t *testing.T) {
+			t.Parallel()
+
+			path := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "config.yml")
+
+			err := os.WriteFile(path, []byte(configWithoutRecipients), configFileMode)
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatalf("write config: %v", err)
+			}
+
+			err = writeConfigSet(ui.NewWithColor(&bytes.Buffer{}, false),
+				path, tt.key, tt.value)
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatalf("config set %s: %v", tt.key, err)
+			}
+
+			cfg, err := config.Load(path)
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatalf("config.Load: %v", err)
+			}
+
+			got := tt.field(cfg)
+			if len(got) != 1 || got[0] != tt.value {
+				t.Errorf("%s gives %v, want [%s]", tt.key, got, tt.value)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+// TestConfigSetKeepsFileThatWouldNotLoad checks that config set refuses a
+// change after which the config would not load, with an error giving the
+// reason, and leaves the file as it was. On the file `config init` writes,
+// which does not load until storage_url is set, and on one that cannot be
+// read here, only a value of the wrong type is refused.
+func TestConfigSetKeepsFileThatWouldNotLoad(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	levelReference := configWithLevelReference(t)
+
+	tests := []struct {
+		config string
+		key    string
+		value  string
+		reason string
+	}{
+		// Index 1 of the empty list the missing key gives.
+		{configWithoutRecipients, "age_recipients.1", testRecipient,
+			"index out of range"},
+		// A list set to a single value.
+		{configWithoutRecipients, "snapshots.home.paths", "/srv",
+			"into []string"},
+		{configWithoutRecipients, "chunk_size", "fast",
+			"invalid size format"},
+		// Values of the right type that fail validation.
+		{configWithoutRecipients, "compression_level", "99",
+			"compression_level must be between 1 and 19"},
+		{configWithoutRecipients, "chunk_size", "1KB",
+			"chunk_size must be at least 1MB"},
+		// With its reference filled in, the config loads.
+		{levelReference, "blob_size_limit", "1MB",
+			"blob_size_limit must be at least"},
+		// The type check on a config that does not load yet.
+		{defaultConfigTemplate, "snapshots.apps.paths", "/srv",
+			"into []string"},
+		// The type check on a config that cannot be read here.
+		{configWithUnsetReference, "snapshots.home.paths", "/x",
+			"cannot unmarshal !!str `/x`"},
+	}
+
+	for _, tt := range tests {
+		t.Run(tt.key+" "+tt.value, func(t *testing.T) {
+			t.Parallel()
+
+			path := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "config.yml")
+
+			err := os.WriteFile(path, []byte(tt.config), configFileMode)
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatalf("write config: %v", err)
+			}
+
+			err = writeConfigSet(ui.NewWithColor(&bytes.Buffer{}, false),
+				path, tt.key, tt.value)
+			if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), tt.reason) {
+				t.Errorf("config set %s %s gives error %v, want one saying %q",
+					tt.key, tt.value, err, tt.reason)
+			}
+
+			data, err := os.ReadFile(path) //nolint:gosec // G304: test-controlled path
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatalf("read config: %v", err)
+			}
+
+			if string(data) != tt.config {
+				t.Errorf("config set %s changed the file to:\n%s",
+					tt.key, data)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+// TestConfigSetRefusesOnlyItsOwnFailure checks that setting another key
+// works on a config with a ${...} reference on compression_level, which
+// loads because loading fills the reference in, on one whose
+// compression_level already fails to load, and on one with a reference
+// that cannot be filled in here.
+func TestConfigSetRefusesOnlyItsOwnFailure(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	configs := map[string]string{
+		"reference":       configWithLevelReference(t),
+		"failing":         configWithoutRecipients + "compression_level: fast\n",
+		"unset reference": configWithUnsetReference,
+	}
+
+	for name, configYAML := range configs {
+		t.Run(name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			t.Parallel()
+
+			path := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "config.yml")
+
+			err := os.WriteFile(path, []byte(configYAML), configFileMode)
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatalf("write config: %v", err)
+			}
+
+			err = writeConfigSet(ui.NewWithColor(&bytes.Buffer{}, false),
+				path, "hostname", "myhost")
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatalf("config set hostname: %v", err)
+			}
+
+			data, err := os.ReadFile(path) //nolint:gosec // G304: test-controlled path
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatalf("read config: %v", err)
+			}
+
+			if !strings.Contains(string(data), "hostname: myhost") {
+				t.Errorf("config set hostname wrote:\n%s", data)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+// TestConfigSetStringLooksLikeNumber sets string settings to values that
+// YAML reads as numbers or booleans when they are unquoted, and checks that
+// config.Load returns each one unchanged.
+func TestConfigSetStringLooksLikeNumber(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	tests := []struct {
+		key   string
+		value string
+		field func(cfg *config.Config) string
+	}{
+		{"s3.access_key_id", "00112233",
+			func(cfg *config.Config) string { return cfg.S3.AccessKeyID }},
+		{"s3.secret_access_key", "12345678901234567890123456789012",
+			func(cfg *config.Config) string { return cfg.S3.SecretAccessKey }},
+		{"hostname", "007",
+			func(cfg *config.Config) string { return cfg.Hostname }},
+		{"s3.prefix", "1e5",
+			func(cfg *config.Config) string { return cfg.S3.Prefix }},
+		{"s3.bucket", "true",
+			func(cfg *config.Config) string { return cfg.S3.Bucket }},
+		{"s3.region", "FALSE",
+			func(cfg *config.Config) string { return cfg.S3.Region }},
+		{"snapshots.home.exclude.0", "1.10",
+			func(cfg *config.Config) string { return cfg.Snapshots["home"].Exclude[0] }},
+	}
+
+	for _, tt := range tests {
+		t.Run(tt.key+"="+tt.value, func(t *testing.T) {
+			t.Parallel()
+
+			cfg := loadAfterConfigSet(t, tt.key, tt.value)
+
+			got := tt.field(cfg)
+			if got != tt.value {
+				t.Errorf("%s = %q after config set %q", tt.key, got, tt.value)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+// TestConfigSetNonUTF8Path checks that config set still accepts a value that
+// is not valid UTF-8, such as a path with a Latin-1 file name, and that
+// config.Load returns it unchanged.
+func TestConfigSetNonUTF8Path(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	const dir = "/srv/caf\xe9"
+
+	cfg := loadAfterConfigSet(t, "snapshots.home.paths.0", dir)
+
+	got := cfg.Snapshots["home"].Paths[0]
+	if got != dir {
+		t.Errorf("snapshots.home.paths.0 = %q, want %q", got, dir)
+	}
+}
+
+// TestConfigSetNumberStaysNumber checks that a number set for an integer
+// setting is still read as a number, not as a quoted string.
+func TestConfigSetNumberStaysNumber(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	const level = 9
+
+	cfg := loadAfterConfigSet(t, "compression_level", strconv.Itoa(level))
+
+	if cfg.CompressionLevel != level {
+		t.Errorf("compression_level = %d, want %d", cfg.CompressionLevel, level)
+	}
+}
+
+// loadAfterConfigSet writes the file `config init` writes, sets storage_url
+// to a local directory so that the file passes validation, applies
+// `config set key value` and returns what config.Load reads back.
+func loadAfterConfigSet(t *testing.T, key, value string) *config.Config {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	path := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "config.yml")
+
+	err := os.WriteFile(path, []byte(defaultConfigTemplate), configFileMode)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("write config: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	out := ui.NewWithColor(&bytes.Buffer{}, false)
+
+	err = writeConfigSet(out, path, "storage_url", "file:///mnt/backups")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("config set storage_url: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	err = writeConfigSet(out, path, key, value)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("config set %s: %v", key, err)
+	}
+
+	cfg, err := config.Load(path)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("config.Load: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	return cfg
+}
+
+const testYAML = `# top comment
+compression_level: 3
+age_recipients:
+  - age1aaa
+s3:
+  bucket: oldbucket # inline comment
+  region: us-east-1
+snapshots:
+  home:
+    paths:
+      - "~"
+`
+
+func parseTestYAML(t *testing.T) *yaml.Node {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	var root yaml.Node
+
+	err := yaml.Unmarshal([]byte(testYAML), &root)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("parsing test yaml: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	return &root
+}
+
+func TestYAMLPathGet(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	root := parseTestYAML(t)
+
+	tests := []struct {
+		path string
+		want string
+		err  bool
+	}{
+		{"compression_level", "3", false},
+		{"s3.bucket", "oldbucket", false},
+		{"s3.region", "us-east-1", false},
+		{"age_recipients.0", "age1aaa", false},
+		{"age_recipients.5", "", true},
+		{"age_recipients.notanumber", "", true},
+		{"s3.nonexistent", "", true},
+		{"nonexistent", "", true},
+		{"compression_level.sub", "", true},
+	}
+
+	for _, tt := range tests {
+		t.Run(tt.path, func(t *testing.T) {
+			t.Parallel()
+
+			node, err := yamlPathGet(root, splitPath(tt.path))
+			if tt.err {
+				if err == nil {
+					t.Fatalf("expected error for %q", tt.path)
+				}
+
+				return
+			}
+
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatalf("unexpected error: %v", err)
+			}
+
+			if node.Value != tt.want {
+				t.Errorf("get %q = %q, want %q", tt.path, node.Value, tt.want)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+func TestYAMLPathSet(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	root := parseTestYAML(t)
+
+	// Overwrite existing nested value
+	err := yamlPathSet(root, splitPath("s3.bucket"), "newbucket")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("set s3.bucket: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	// Create new nested key with intermediate map
+	err = yamlPathSet(root, splitPath("s3.endpoint"), "s3.example.com")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("set s3.endpoint: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	err = yamlPathSet(root, splitPath("newmap.newkey"), "val")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("set newmap.newkey: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	// Overwrite a sequence element and append a new one
+	err = yamlPathSet(root, splitPath("age_recipients.0"), "age1bbb")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("set age_recipients.0: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	err = yamlPathSet(root, splitPath("age_recipients.1"), "age1ccc")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("append age_recipients.1: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	err = yamlPathSet(root, splitPath("age_recipients.5"), "age1ddd")
+	if err == nil {
+		t.Error("expected out-of-range append to fail")
+	}
+
+	// Round-trip and verify values + comment preservation
+	out, err := yaml.Marshal(root)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("marshal: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	text := string(out)
+
+	wants := []string{
+		"newbucket", "s3.example.com", "newkey: val",
+		"# top comment", "# inline comment", "age1bbb", "age1ccc",
+	}
+	for _, want := range wants {
+		if !contains(text, want) {
+			t.Errorf("round-tripped YAML missing %q:\n%s", want, text)
+		}
+	}
+
+	got, err := yamlPathGet(root, splitPath("s3.bucket"))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("get after set: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	if got.Value != "newbucket" {
+		t.Errorf("s3.bucket = %q after set, want newbucket", got.Value)
+	}
+}
+
+// TestConfigSetPreservesFormatting asserts the `config set` write path
+// (marshalConfigYAML) round-trips a 2-space-indented file without reindenting
+// it to yaml.Marshal's 4-space default, and keeps comments.
+func TestConfigSetPreservesFormatting(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	root := parseTestYAML(t)
+
+	err := yamlPathSet(root, splitPath("s3.bucket"), "newbucket")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("set s3.bucket: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	out, err := marshalConfigYAML(root)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("marshal: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	text := string(out)
+
+	for _, want := range []string{"# top comment", "# inline comment"} {
+		if !contains(text, want) {
+			t.Errorf("round-tripped YAML dropped comment %q:\n%s", want, text)
+		}
+	}
+
+	// Nested map keys stay at 2-space indent; the bug reindented them to 4.
+	if !contains(text, "\n  bucket: newbucket") {
+		t.Errorf("expected 2-space indent for s3.bucket, got:\n%s", text)
+	}
+
+	if contains(text, "\n    bucket:") {
+		t.Errorf("s3.bucket reindented to 4 spaces:\n%s", text)
+	}
+
+	// Sequence items under a key also stay at 2 spaces.
+	if !contains(text, "\n  - age1aaa") {
+		t.Errorf("expected 2-space indent for sequence item, got:\n%s", text)
+	}
+}
+
+// TestWriteConfigSetHidesSecret checks that setting a secret key prints
+// only the key name, never the value, to the confirmation output.
+func TestWriteConfigSetHidesSecret(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	const secret = "SUPERSECRETVALUE"
+
+	path := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "config.yaml")
+
+	err := os.WriteFile(path, []byte("version: 1\n"), 0o600)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("seed config: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	var buf bytes.Buffer
+
+	err = writeConfigSet(ui.NewWithColor(&buf, false), path,
+		"s3.secret_access_key", secret)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("writeConfigSet: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	if strings.Contains(buf.String(), secret) {
+		t.Errorf("output echoed the secret value: %q", buf.String())
+	}
+
+	if !strings.Contains(buf.String(), "s3.secret_access_key") {
+		t.Errorf("output did not confirm the key name: %q", buf.String())
+	}
+}
+
+// TestWriteConfigSetTightensMode checks that a pre-existing group- or
+// world-readable config is tightened to owner-only after a set, since
+// os.WriteFile leaves an existing file's mode untouched.
+func TestWriteConfigSetTightensMode(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	path := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "config.yaml")
+
+	// Seed a world-readable config; the loose mode is the condition under
+	// test, so gosec's G306 is expected here.
+	err := os.WriteFile(path, []byte("version: 1\n"), 0o644) //nolint:gosec // G306
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("seed config: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	var buf bytes.Buffer
+
+	err = writeConfigSet(ui.NewWithColor(&buf, false), path,
+		"compression_level", "9")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("writeConfigSet: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	info, err := os.Stat(path)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("stat config: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	if info.Mode().Perm() != 0o600 {
+		t.Errorf("config mode = %04o, want 0600", info.Mode().Perm())
+	}
+}
+
+// TestConfigEditEditorWithArgument checks that an $EDITOR carrying an
+// argument works and that a config path with a space reaches it whole.
+// The "editor" is cp with the replacement file as its argument, so the
+// config ends up with the replacement's content only if both arrived.
+func TestConfigEditEditorWithArgument(t *testing.T) {
+	dir := t.TempDir()
+	path := seedFile(t, dir, "my config.yml", "compression_level: 3\n")
+	edited := seedFile(t, dir, "edited.yml", "compression_level: 9\n")
+
+	setRootFlags(t, RootFlags{ConfigPath: path})
+	t.Setenv("EDITOR", "cp '"+edited+"'")
+
+	mustExecute(t, newConfigEditCommand())
+
+	data, err := os.ReadFile(path) //nolint:gosec // G304: test-controlled path
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("reading config back: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	if string(data) != "compression_level: 9\n" {
+		t.Errorf("config after edit = %q, want the edited content", data)
+	}
+}
+
+func splitPath(s string) []string {
+	return strings.Split(s, ".")
+}
+
+func contains(haystack, needle string) bool {
+	return strings.Contains(haystack, needle)
+}

internal/cli/database.go

@@ -0,0 +1,124 @@
+package cli
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"os"
+
+	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/config"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/log"
+)
+
+// NewDatabaseCommand creates the database command group
+func NewDatabaseCommand() *cobra.Command {
+	cmd := &cobra.Command{
+		Use:   "database",
+		Short: "Manage the local state database",
+		Long:  `Commands for managing the local SQLite state database.`,
+		// cobra checks Args only on a command that has a Run: without
+		// one, a mistyped subcommand printed help and exited 0.
+		Args: cobra.NoArgs,
+		Run: func(cmd *cobra.Command, _ []string) {
+			_ = cmd.Help()
+		},
+	}
+
+	cmd.AddCommand(
+		newDatabaseDeleteCommand(),
+	)
+
+	return cmd
+}
+
+// newDatabaseDeleteCommand creates the database delete command.
+// (Renamed from "purge"; the operation removes the SQLite file
+// entirely, which is a delete, not a purge of content.)
+func newDatabaseDeleteCommand() *cobra.Command {
+	var force bool
+
+	cmd := &cobra.Command{
+		Use:   "delete",
+		Short: "Delete the local state database file",
+		Long: `Completely removes the local SQLite state database.
+
+This will erase all local tracking of:
+- File metadata and change detection state
+- Chunk and blob mappings
+- Local snapshot records
+- The storage-binding record
+
+The remote storage is NOT affected. After deletion, the next backup
+will perform a full scan and re-deduplicate against existing remote
+blobs, and the local index will re-bind to the currently configured
+storage destination on that run.
+
+Use --force to skip the confirmation prompt.`,
+		Args: cobra.NoArgs,
+		RunE: func(cmd *cobra.Command, _ []string) error {
+			// Resolve config path
+			configPath, err := ResolveConfigPath()
+			if err != nil {
+				return err
+			}
+
+			// Load config to get database path
+			cfg, err := config.Load(configPath)
+			if err != nil {
+				return fmt.Errorf("failed to load config: %w", err)
+			}
+
+			dbPath := cfg.IndexPath
+			out := commandUI(cmd)
+
+			// Check if database exists
+			_, err = os.Stat(dbPath)
+			if os.IsNotExist(err) {
+				out.Infof("Local state database does not exist: %s.", dbPath)
+
+				return nil
+			}
+
+			// Confirm unless --force. The prompt and its immediate result
+			// are an interactive exchange the operator must see, so they go
+			// straight to stdout rather than through the UI and --quiet does
+			// not silence them.
+			if !force {
+				w := cmd.OutOrStdout()
+				_, _ = fmt.Fprintf(w,
+					"This will delete the local state database at:\n  %s\n\n", dbPath)
+				_, _ = fmt.Fprint(w, "Are you sure? Type 'yes' to confirm: ")
+
+				var confirm string
+
+				_, err = fmt.Scanln(&confirm)
+				if err != nil || confirm != "yes" {
+					_, _ = fmt.Fprintln(w, "Aborted.")
+
+					//nolint:nilerr // a failed/aborted confirmation is a clean abort
+					return nil
+				}
+			}
+
+			// Delete the database file
+			err = os.Remove(dbPath)
+			if err != nil {
+				return fmt.Errorf("failed to delete database: %w", err)
+			}
+
+			// Also delete WAL and SHM files if they exist
+			walPath := dbPath + "-wal"
+			shmPath := dbPath + "-shm"
+			_ = os.Remove(walPath) // Ignore errors - files may not exist
+			_ = os.Remove(shmPath)
+
+			out.Infof("Local state database deleted: %s.", dbPath)
+			log.Info("Local state database deleted", "path", dbPath)
+
+			return nil
+		},
+	}
+
+	cmd.Flags().BoolVar(&force, "force", false, "Skip confirmation prompt")
+
+	return cmd
+}

internal/cli/entry.go

@@ -1,13 +1,130 @@
 package cli
 
 import (
+	"errors"
+	"io"
 	"os"
+	"strings"
+	"time"
+
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/globals"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/ui"
 )
 
-// CLIEntry is the main entry point for the CLI application
+// shortCommitLen is the number of git commit hash characters shown in
-func CLIEntry() {
+// the startup banner.
+const shortCommitLen = 12
+
+// exitCodeInterrupted is the exit status of a command that SIGINT or
+// SIGTERM stopped. It is 128 plus SIGINT's number, 2, which is what a
+// shell reports for a command stopped by Ctrl-C.
+const exitCodeInterrupted = 130
+
+// Entry is the main entry point for the CLI application.
+// It prints the startup banner to stderr (unless a banner-suppressing
+// flag is present in os.Args — see bannerSuppressedInArgs), executes the
+// root cobra command, and routes any returned error through the
+// ui.Writer so the user sees a properly formatted "🛑 ERROR:" line.
+// The banner goes to stderr because stdout carries only the output the
+// user asked for, such as a completion script or a `config get` value.
+//
+// It returns the process exit code (0 on success, 130 when interrupted,
+// 1 on any other error) rather than calling os.Exit, so that main's
+// deferred profile writers run before the process ends. See run in
+// cmd/vaultik/main.go.
+func Entry() int {
+	emitStartupBanner(os.Args[1:], os.Stderr)
+
 	rootCmd := NewRootCommand()
-	if err := rootCmd.Execute(); err != nil {
+	rootCmd.SilenceErrors = true
-		os.Exit(1)
+
+	err := rootCmd.Execute()
+	if err != nil {
+		// An operation that ran inside the fx app has already reported
+		// its own failure (`snapshot verify --json` puts it in the
+		// document instead); errReported says so. Printing it again
+		// here would double the error line.
+		// Every other error — bad arguments, a config that would not
+		// load, an interrupt — reaches Entry unreported, so it is shown
+		// here.
+		if !errors.Is(err, errReported) {
+			ReportErrorf("%s", err.Error())
+		}
+
+		if errors.Is(err, errInterrupted) {
+			return exitCodeInterrupted
+		}
+
+		return 1
+	}
+
+	return 0
+}
+
+// emitStartupBanner writes the startup banner to w unless args (the
+// argument vector with the program name already stripped) contains a
+// flag that suppresses it. Split out of Entry so that the decision is
+// reachable from a test without running the whole CLI.
+func emitStartupBanner(args []string, w io.Writer) {
+	if bannerSuppressedInArgs(args) {
+		return
+	}
+
+	short := globals.Commit
+	if len(short) > shortCommitLen {
+		short = short[:shortCommitLen]
+	}
+
+	writeStartupBanner(ui.New(w), time.Now().UTC(), short)
+}
+
+// ReportErrorf emits a user-facing error to stderr in the standard
+// 🛑 ERROR: format. Use it from goroutine error paths (where returning
+// an error to cobra isn't an option) and anywhere else a CLI command
+// must surface a failure outside the normal RunE return path.
+func ReportErrorf(format string, args ...any) {
+	ui.New(os.Stderr).Errorf(format, args...)
+}
+
+// bannerSuppressedInArgs reports whether any of args is a flag that
+// should suppress the startup banner (--quiet/-q/--cron/--json). Stops
+// at the "--" argument terminator. Recognizes both long forms and short
+// -q, including combined short flags like "-qv".
+//
+// This scans the raw argument vector because the banner is printed
+// before cobra parses anything — deliberately, so that it still appears
+// when cobra rejects the arguments and on --help. The consequence is
+// that a flag is matched wherever it occurs in the vector, including
+// positions where the command it belongs to would not accept it.
+// --json is a subcommand flag rather than a persistent one, but so is
+// --cron (it exists only on `snapshot create`), so this adds no new
+// class of imprecision. The only cost of a false positive is a missing
+// decorative banner.
+func bannerSuppressedInArgs(args []string) bool {
+	for _, a := range args {
+		if a == "--" {
+			return false
+		}
+
+		switch a {
+		case "--quiet", "-q", "--cron", "--json":
+			return true
+		}
+
+		if strings.HasPrefix(a, "--quiet=") ||
+			strings.HasPrefix(a, "--cron=") ||
+			strings.HasPrefix(a, "--json=") {
+			return true
+		}
+		// Combined short flags like -qv or -vq.
+		if len(a) > 1 && a[0] == '-' && a[1] != '-' {
+			for _, c := range a[1:] {
+				if c == 'q' {
+					return true
 				}
 			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	return false
+}

internal/cli/entry_banner_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,276 @@
+package cli //nolint:testpackage // needs access to unexported emitStartupBanner
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"fmt"
+	"io"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/adrg/xdg"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+)
+
+// Command words and flags used to build argument vectors below. They are
+// constants rather than repeated literals so that a rename shows up as a
+// compile error in one place.
+const (
+	cmdSnapshot = "snapshot"
+	cmdList     = "list"
+	cmdCreate   = "create"
+	cmdVerify   = "verify"
+	cmdRemove   = "remove"
+	cmdPrune    = "prune"
+	cmdRemote   = "remote"
+	cmdInfo     = "info"
+
+	flagJSON   = "--json"
+	flagQuiet  = "--quiet"
+	flagConfig = "--config"
+
+	// programName is argv[0] as the real process receives it. Entry
+	// strips it before scanning, so it has to be present.
+	programName = "vaultik"
+
+	// someSnapshotID only fills the positional argument; no test needs
+	// the snapshot to exist.
+	someSnapshotID = "host_2026-01-01T00:00:00Z"
+)
+
+// jsonArgumentVectors are the argument vectors of every --json
+// invocation the CLI accepts, with the program name stripped exactly as
+// Entry strips it. Each one must suppress the banner.
+//
+//nolint:gochecknoglobals // read-only test fixture shared by two tests
+var jsonArgumentVectors = map[string][]string{
+	"snapshot list":   {cmdSnapshot, cmdList, flagJSON},
+	"snapshot verify": {cmdSnapshot, cmdVerify, someSnapshotID, flagJSON},
+	"snapshot remove": {cmdSnapshot, cmdRemove, someSnapshotID, flagJSON},
+	"prune":           {cmdPrune, flagJSON},
+	"remote info":     {cmdRemote, cmdInfo, flagJSON},
+
+	// --json before the subcommand, and with an explicit value: the
+	// scan is positional, so both forms have to be recognized.
+	"json first":      {flagJSON, cmdSnapshot, cmdList},
+	"json with value": {cmdSnapshot, cmdList, flagJSON + "=true"},
+
+	// A --json invocation that also carries a flag with a value, so the
+	// scan cannot be fooled by an argument that consumes the next one.
+	"json with config": {
+		flagConfig, "/nonexistent/vaultik.yml", cmdSnapshot, cmdList, flagJSON,
+	},
+}
+
+// TestJSONInvocationSuppressesBanner checks that every --json
+// invocation suppresses the startup banner, as the README says --json
+// does along with --quiet and --cron. The scan is over the raw argument
+// vector, so each position and spelling of --json is listed.
+func TestJSONInvocationSuppressesBanner(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	for name, argv := range jsonArgumentVectors {
+		t.Run(name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			t.Parallel()
+
+			var banner bytes.Buffer
+
+			emitStartupBanner(argv, &banner)
+
+			assert.Empty(t, banner.String(),
+				"--json suppresses the banner")
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+// TestBannerStillPrintedWithoutSuppressingFlag pins the other half of
+// the contract. Without it, deleting the banner outright would satisfy
+// the test above, and the banner is wanted on interactive invocations.
+func TestBannerStillPrintedWithoutSuppressingFlag(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	for name, argv := range map[string][]string{
+		"no flags": {cmdSnapshot, cmdList},
+		"verbose":  {cmdSnapshot, cmdList, "--verbose"},
+		"after the terminator": {
+			cmdSnapshot, "restore", "--", flagJSON,
+		},
+	} {
+		t.Run(name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			t.Parallel()
+
+			var banner bytes.Buffer
+
+			emitStartupBanner(argv, &banner)
+
+			assert.Contains(t, banner.String(), "starting up at",
+				"the banner belongs on invocations that did not opt out")
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+// TestBannerSuppressedInArgs covers the suppression scan directly,
+// including the flags that suppressed the banner before --json joined
+// them, so that adding --json cannot regress them.
+func TestBannerSuppressedInArgs(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	for name, testCase := range map[string]struct {
+		args       []string
+		suppressed bool
+	}{
+		"quiet long":     {[]string{cmdSnapshot, cmdCreate, flagQuiet}, true},
+		"quiet short":    {[]string{cmdSnapshot, cmdCreate, "-q"}, true},
+		"quiet combined": {[]string{cmdSnapshot, cmdCreate, "-qv"}, true},
+		"cron":           {[]string{cmdSnapshot, cmdCreate, "--cron"}, true},
+		"json":           {[]string{cmdSnapshot, cmdList, flagJSON}, true},
+		"nothing":        {[]string{cmdSnapshot, cmdList}, false},
+		"empty":          {nil, false},
+		"json after dashes": {
+			[]string{cmdSnapshot, cmdList, "--", flagJSON}, false,
+		},
+		"quiet after dashes": {
+			[]string{cmdSnapshot, cmdCreate, "--", "-q"}, false,
+		},
+	} {
+		t.Run(name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			t.Parallel()
+
+			assert.Equal(t, testCase.suppressed,
+				bannerSuppressedInArgs(testCase.args))
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+// hermeticConfig is a complete, valid config that needs no network and
+// no credentials: file:// storage is exempt from the S3 credential
+// checks. A test that lists the destination must create its directory
+// first, because listing a directory that does not exist is an error.
+// Chunk, blob and compression settings are filled in by config.Load.
+const hermeticConfig = `age_recipients:
+  - age1278m9q7dp3chsh2dcy82qk27v047zywyvtxwnj4cvt0z65jw6a7q5dqhfj
+snapshots:
+  test:
+    paths:
+      - %s
+storage_url: file://%s
+index_path: %s
+hostname: test-host
+`
+
+// TestEntryJSONStdoutIsExactlyOneDocument runs the real thing: Entry,
+// with a real argument vector, over the process's real stdout file
+// descriptor, all the way through cobra and the fx graph to the
+// document. It is the assertion the issue asks for — `vaultik snapshot
+// list --json | jq .` with no other flags — with the pipe replaced by a
+// decoder.
+//
+// `snapshot list` is the command chosen because it is the only --json
+// command that reaches its document without a populated destination
+// store: it reads the local index, streams `metadata/` (empty here),
+// and treats an empty destination directory as an empty list rather
+// than a failure.
+//
+// Not parallel: it replaces os.Args, os.Stdout and the xdg globals.
+func TestEntryJSONStdoutIsExactlyOneDocument(t *testing.T) {
+	dir := t.TempDir()
+	configPath := filepath.Join(dir, "config.yml")
+	storeDir := filepath.Join(dir, "store")
+
+	contents := fmt.Sprintf(hermeticConfig,
+		filepath.Join(dir, "source"),
+		storeDir,
+		filepath.Join(dir, "index.sqlite"))
+
+	require.NoError(t,
+		os.WriteFile(configPath, []byte(contents), configFileMode))
+
+	require.NoError(t, os.Mkdir(storeDir, 0o750))
+
+	// The PID lock lives under xdg.DataHome, which xdg resolves at
+	// package init; point it at the temp dir so the test neither
+	// touches nor collides with the real one.
+	t.Setenv("XDG_DATA_HOME", filepath.Join(dir, "data"))
+	xdg.Reload()
+	t.Cleanup(xdg.Reload)
+
+	previousArgs := os.Args
+
+	t.Cleanup(func() {
+		os.Args = previousArgs
+		rootFlags = RootFlags{}
+	})
+
+	os.Args = []string{
+		programName, flagConfig, configPath, cmdSnapshot, cmdList, flagJSON,
+	}
+
+	stdout := captureProcessStdout(t, func() { _ = Entry() })
+
+	requireExactlyOneJSONDocument(t, stdout)
+
+	var snapshots []any
+
+	require.NoError(t, json.Unmarshal([]byte(stdout), &snapshots))
+	assert.Empty(t, snapshots,
+		"a destination store with no snapshots lists none")
+}
+
+// captureProcessStdout redirects the process's own stdout to a pipe for
+// the duration of fn and returns what was written to it. The redirection
+// has to be at the file-descriptor level rather than through an injected
+// writer, because the commands Entry runs reach os.Stdout directly.
+//
+// Not parallel-safe: os.Stdout is process-global.
+func captureProcessStdout(t *testing.T, fn func()) string {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	reader, writer, err := os.Pipe()
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	previous := os.Stdout
+	os.Stdout = writer
+
+	captured := make(chan string, 1)
+
+	go func() {
+		var buf bytes.Buffer
+
+		_, _ = io.Copy(&buf, reader)
+		captured <- buf.String()
+	}()
+
+	fn()
+
+	os.Stdout = previous
+
+	require.NoError(t, writer.Close())
+
+	out := <-captured
+
+	require.NoError(t, reader.Close())
+
+	return out
+}
+
+// requireExactlyOneJSONDocument fails unless stdout decodes as a single
+// JSON value with nothing before or after it — the property that makes
+// `| jq` work.
+func requireExactlyOneJSONDocument(t *testing.T, stdout string) {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	decoder := json.NewDecoder(strings.NewReader(stdout))
+
+	var document any
+
+	err := decoder.Decode(&document)
+	require.NoError(t, err,
+		"stdout must parse as JSON, got:\n%s", stdout)
+
+	_, err = decoder.Token()
+	require.ErrorIs(t, err, io.EOF,
+		"stdout must hold exactly one JSON document, got:\n%s", stdout)
+}

internal/cli/entry_interrupt_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,203 @@
+package cli //nolint:testpackage // shares runEntry and the argument constants
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"net/http"
+	"net/http/httptest"
+	"os"
+	"os/signal"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/adrg/xdg"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+)
+
+// stalledStoreConfig is hermeticConfig with an s3:// destination store
+// in place of the file:// one. The server behind it accepts any
+// credentials.
+const stalledStoreConfig = `age_recipients:
+  - age1278m9q7dp3chsh2dcy82qk27v047zywyvtxwnj4cvt0z65jw6a7q5dqhfj
+snapshots:
+  test:
+    paths:
+      - %s
+storage_url: s3://bucket?endpoint=%s&ssl=false
+s3:
+  access_key_id: key
+  secret_access_key: secret
+index_path: %s
+hostname: test-host
+`
+
+// interruptRepeat is how often interruptOnFirstRequest sends SIGINT.
+const interruptRepeat = 50 * time.Millisecond
+
+// TestEntryInterruptedRun sends SIGINT to the test process while a
+// command waits on the destination store, and checks that Entry returns
+// 130 and prints one line on stderr saying the run was interrupted. The
+// store is a local HTTP server that holds every request open, so the
+// command is always mid-operation when the signal arrives. The two
+// cases cover --cron and --json, which silence other output.
+//
+// Not parallel: it signals the process and replaces os.Args, os.Stdout,
+// os.Stderr and the xdg globals.
+//
+//nolint:paralleltest // signals the process and replaces process globals
+func TestEntryInterruptedRun(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, testCase := range []struct {
+		name string
+		args []string
+	}{
+		{
+			name: "snapshot create --cron",
+			args: []string{cmdSnapshot, cmdCreate, "--cron"},
+		},
+		{
+			name: "snapshot verify --json",
+			args: []string{cmdSnapshot, cmdVerify, someSnapshotID, flagJSON},
+		},
+	} {
+		t.Run(testCase.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			endpoint, requestArrived := startStalledStore(t)
+			configPath := writeStalledStoreConfig(t, endpoint)
+			interruptOnFirstRequest(t, requestArrived)
+
+			code, _, stderr := runEntry(t,
+				append([]string{flagConfig, configPath}, testCase.args...)...)
+
+			assert.Equal(t, 130, code)
+			assert.Equal(t, 1,
+				strings.Count(stderr, errInterrupted.Error()), stderr)
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+// interruptOnFirstRequest sends SIGINT to the test process every
+// interruptRepeat, from the first request to the destination store until
+// the test ends. One signal is not enough: the command can reach the
+// store before fx has started catching signals. The test catches SIGINT
+// too, so that a signal fx is not catching does not kill the test
+// binary.
+func interruptOnFirstRequest(t *testing.T, requestArrived <-chan struct{}) {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	self, err := os.FindProcess(os.Getpid())
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	caught := make(chan os.Signal, 1)
+	signal.Notify(caught, os.Interrupt)
+
+	testEnded := make(chan struct{})
+	senderDone := make(chan struct{})
+
+	// Stop catching SIGINT only after the sender has returned. The sender
+	// waits for each SIGINT it sends to arrive on caught; one still on
+	// its way after signal.Stop would kill the test binary.
+	t.Cleanup(func() {
+		close(testEnded)
+		<-senderDone
+		signal.Stop(caught)
+	})
+
+	go func() {
+		defer close(senderDone)
+
+		select {
+		case <-requestArrived:
+		case <-testEnded:
+			return
+		}
+
+		ticker := time.NewTicker(interruptRepeat)
+		defer ticker.Stop()
+
+		for {
+			// Empty caught, so that the receive below waits for this
+			// SIGINT rather than an earlier one.
+			select {
+			case <-caught:
+			default:
+			}
+
+			sendErr := self.Signal(os.Interrupt)
+			if sendErr != nil {
+				t.Errorf("sending SIGINT: %v", sendErr)
+
+				return
+			}
+
+			<-caught
+
+			select {
+			case <-testEnded:
+				return
+			case <-ticker.C:
+			}
+		}
+	}()
+}
+
+// startStalledStore starts an HTTP server that never answers: each
+// request is held until the client gives up on it or the test ends.
+// It returns the server's host:port and a channel that receives a value
+// when the first request arrives.
+func startStalledStore(t *testing.T) (string, <-chan struct{}) {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	requestArrived := make(chan struct{}, 1)
+	release := make(chan struct{})
+
+	server := httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(
+		func(_ http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+			select {
+			case requestArrived <- struct{}{}:
+			default:
+			}
+
+			select {
+			case <-r.Context().Done():
+			case <-release:
+			}
+		}))
+
+	// Cleanups run last-registered first, so release lets any held
+	// request return before Close waits for it.
+	t.Cleanup(server.Close)
+	t.Cleanup(func() { close(release) })
+
+	return server.Listener.Addr().String(), requestArrived
+}
+
+// writeStalledStoreConfig writes a config whose destination store is the
+// server at endpoint and whose snapshot source holds one small file, so
+// that `snapshot create` has a blob to upload. Returns the config path.
+func writeStalledStoreConfig(t *testing.T, endpoint string) string {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	dir := t.TempDir()
+	configPath := filepath.Join(dir, "config.yml")
+	sourceDir := filepath.Join(dir, "source")
+
+	require.NoError(t, os.Mkdir(sourceDir, 0o750))
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(sourceDir, "file.txt"),
+		[]byte("contents"), 0o600))
+
+	contents := fmt.Sprintf(stalledStoreConfig,
+		sourceDir, endpoint, filepath.Join(dir, "index.sqlite"))
+
+	require.NoError(t,
+		os.WriteFile(configPath, []byte(contents), configFileMode))
+
+	// The PID lock lives under xdg.DataHome, which xdg resolves at
+	// package init; point it at the temp dir so the test neither
+	// touches nor collides with the real one.
+	t.Setenv("XDG_DATA_HOME", filepath.Join(dir, "data"))
+	xdg.Reload()
+	t.Cleanup(xdg.Reload)
+
+	return configPath
+}

internal/cli/entry_prune_json_stderr_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,140 @@
+package cli //nolint:testpackage // shares the prune fixtures and capture helpers
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"io"
+	"os"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+)
+
+// staleRecordLogMessage is the local-cleanup audit line CleanupLocalSnapshots
+// logs for each stale record. It is exactly the signal issue #112 says a
+// machine consumer lost under --json: gated off stdout, and pinned below
+// the log level on stderr because --json used to force Quiet.
+const staleRecordLogMessage = "Removing stale local snapshot record"
+
+// TestEntryPruneJSONStderrHonoursVerbosity is the end-to-end regression
+// guard for issue #112. Under --json the log level must still follow
+// --verbose/--debug rather than being pinned to WARN, so the
+// local-cleanup records reach stderr under --verbose while stdout stays
+// exactly one JSON document; without --verbose they stay below the
+// level, as they do without --json.
+//
+// Both halves are asserted together on the same run, because the fix has
+// to keep the document clean (issue #108) while freeing stderr.
+//
+// Not parallel: it replaces os.Args, os.Stdout, os.Stderr and the xdg
+// globals.
+//
+//nolint:paralleltest // replaces os.Args, os.Stdout, os.Stderr and the xdg globals
+func TestEntryPruneJSONStderrHonoursVerbosity(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, testCase := range []struct {
+		name         string
+		verbose      bool
+		wantOnStderr bool
+	}{
+		{
+			name:         "verbose json surfaces the cleanup record on stderr",
+			verbose:      true,
+			wantOnStderr: true,
+		},
+		{
+			name:         "json alone keeps the cleanup record below the level",
+			verbose:      false,
+			wantOnStderr: false,
+		},
+	} {
+		t.Run(testCase.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			configPath := writeHermeticPruneConfig(t, true)
+
+			previousArgs := os.Args
+
+			t.Cleanup(func() {
+				os.Args = previousArgs
+				rootFlags = RootFlags{}
+			})
+
+			args := []string{
+				programName, flagConfig, configPath, cmdPrune, flagJSON,
+			}
+			if testCase.verbose {
+				args = append(args, "--verbose")
+			}
+
+			os.Args = args
+
+			stdout, stderr := captureProcessStdoutAndStderr(t,
+				func() { _ = Entry() })
+
+			// The document stays clean in both cases: freeing stderr must
+			// not regress issue #108.
+			requireExactlyOneJSONDocument(t, stdout)
+
+			if testCase.wantOnStderr {
+				assert.Contains(t, stderr, staleRecordLogMessage,
+					"--verbose --json must emit the cleanup record on stderr")
+				assert.Contains(t, stderr, stalePruneSnapshotID,
+					"the record must name the snapshot it removed")
+			} else {
+				assert.NotContains(t, stderr, staleRecordLogMessage,
+					"without --verbose the record stays below the log level")
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+// captureProcessStdoutAndStderr redirects both of the process's own
+// standard streams to pipes for the duration of fn and returns what was
+// written to each. The redirection is at the file-descriptor level
+// because the logger binds os.Stderr when it initializes inside fn, and
+// the JSON document reaches os.Stdout independently; the point is to see
+// where each actually lands.
+//
+// Not parallel-safe: os.Stdout and os.Stderr are process-global.
+func captureProcessStdoutAndStderr(t *testing.T, fn func()) (string, string) {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	outReader, outWriter, err := os.Pipe()
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	errReader, errWriter, err := os.Pipe()
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	previousOut, previousErr := os.Stdout, os.Stderr
+	os.Stdout, os.Stderr = outWriter, errWriter
+
+	capturedOut := drain(outReader)
+	capturedErr := drain(errReader)
+
+	fn()
+
+	os.Stdout, os.Stderr = previousOut, previousErr
+
+	require.NoError(t, outWriter.Close())
+	require.NoError(t, errWriter.Close())
+
+	out, errOut := <-capturedOut, <-capturedErr
+
+	require.NoError(t, outReader.Close())
+	require.NoError(t, errReader.Close())
+
+	return out, errOut
+}
+
+// drain copies a reader to a string on a goroutine and delivers the
+// result once the writer end is closed.
+func drain(reader io.Reader) <-chan string {
+	captured := make(chan string, 1)
+
+	go func() {
+		var buf bytes.Buffer
+
+		_, _ = io.Copy(&buf, reader)
+		captured <- buf.String()
+	}()
+
+	return captured
+}

internal/cli/entry_prune_json_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,176 @@
+package cli //nolint:testpackage // shares hermeticConfig and the capture helpers
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"database/sql"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"fmt"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/adrg/xdg"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/database"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/types"
+)
+
+// pruneJSONDocument is the shape `prune --json` writes: the
+// PruneBlobsResult document, and nothing else.
+//
+//nolint:tagliatelle // snake_case is the established JSON output format
+type pruneJSONDocument struct {
+	BlobsFound   int   `json:"blobs_found"`
+	BlobsDeleted int   `json:"blobs_deleted"`
+	BytesFreed   int64 `json:"bytes_freed"`
+}
+
+// stalePruneSnapshotID is seeded into the local index with no manifest
+// on the destination store, which is exactly what makes it stale.
+const stalePruneSnapshotID = "test-host_test_2026-04-01T09:00:00Z"
+
+// TestEntryPruneJSONStdoutIsExactlyOneDocument is the end-to-end
+// regression guard for issue #108: `vaultik prune --json | jq .` must
+// work with no other flags.
+//
+// It runs Entry over the process's real stdout descriptor, through
+// cobra and the fx graph, against a hermetic file:// destination store
+// — the same construction TestEntryJSONStdoutIsExactlyOneDocument uses
+// for `snapshot list`, with the pipe to jq replaced by a decoder.
+//
+// Both branches of the local-snapshot reconciliation are exercised
+// because the three stdout writes that broke this covered all of them:
+// one line per stale record and a summary when there were any, and a
+// "No stale local snapshots found." line when there were none. No input
+// avoided the contamination, so no single branch demonstrates the fix.
+//
+// Not parallel: it replaces os.Args, os.Stdout and the xdg globals.
+//
+//nolint:paralleltest // replaces os.Args, os.Stdout and the xdg globals
+func TestEntryPruneJSONStdoutIsExactlyOneDocument(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, testCase := range []struct {
+		name        string
+		seedStale   bool
+		description string
+	}{
+		{
+			name:        "no stale local records",
+			seedStale:   false,
+			description: "the empty-index branch used to print a 'No stale' line",
+		},
+		{
+			name:      "stale local records present",
+			seedStale: true,
+			description: "the removal branch used to print a line per record " +
+				"plus a summary",
+		},
+	} {
+		t.Run(testCase.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			configPath := writeHermeticPruneConfig(t, testCase.seedStale)
+
+			previousArgs := os.Args
+
+			t.Cleanup(func() {
+				os.Args = previousArgs
+				rootFlags = RootFlags{}
+			})
+
+			os.Args = []string{
+				programName, flagConfig, configPath, cmdPrune, flagJSON,
+			}
+
+			stdout := captureProcessStdout(t, func() { _ = Entry() })
+
+			requireExactlyOneJSONDocument(t, stdout)
+
+			var document pruneJSONDocument
+
+			require.NoError(t, json.Unmarshal([]byte(stdout), &document),
+				testCase.description)
+
+			// A destination store with no blobs has none to prune. The
+			// assertion that matters is the one above; this one keeps the
+			// test honest about which document it decoded.
+			assert.Equal(t, 0, document.BlobsFound)
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+// writeHermeticPruneConfig builds a config over a temp directory with an
+// empty destination directory and, if seedStale is set, creates the
+// index database up front with one snapshot record that has no
+// counterpart on the destination store, and gives the destination the
+// marker a backup writes. Returns the config path.
+func writeHermeticPruneConfig(t *testing.T, seedStale bool) string {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	dir := t.TempDir()
+	configPath := filepath.Join(dir, "config.yml")
+	indexPath := filepath.Join(dir, "index.sqlite")
+	storeDir := filepath.Join(dir, "store")
+
+	contents := fmt.Sprintf(hermeticConfig,
+		filepath.Join(dir, "source"),
+		storeDir,
+		indexPath)
+
+	require.NoError(t,
+		os.WriteFile(configPath, []byte(contents), configFileMode))
+
+	// prune fails on a destination directory that does not exist, so the
+	// empty store is created here rather than left to a first backup.
+	require.NoError(t, os.Mkdir(storeDir, 0o750))
+
+	// The PID lock lives under xdg.DataHome, which xdg resolves at
+	// package init; point it at the temp dir so the test neither
+	// touches nor collides with the real one.
+	t.Setenv("XDG_DATA_HOME", filepath.Join(dir, "data"))
+	xdg.Reload()
+	t.Cleanup(xdg.Reload)
+
+	if seedStale {
+		seedStaleSnapshotRecord(t, indexPath)
+
+		// While the local index holds a snapshot, prune fails on a
+		// destination that answers that it has no marker.
+		require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(
+			filepath.Join(storeDir, "vaultik-destination.txt"), nil, 0o600))
+	}
+
+	return configPath
+}
+
+// seedStaleSnapshotRecord creates the index database at path and
+// inserts one completed snapshot into it. Nothing is written to the
+// destination store, so `prune` finds the record stale and removes it —
+// the branch that printed a line per record.
+func seedStaleSnapshotRecord(t *testing.T, path string) {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	ctx := context.Background()
+
+	db, err := database.New(ctx, path)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	defer func() { require.NoError(t, db.Close()) }()
+
+	startedAt := time.Date(2026, 4, 1, 9, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC)
+	completedAt := startedAt.Add(time.Minute)
+
+	snap := &database.Snapshot{
+		ID:             types.SnapshotID(stalePruneSnapshotID),
+		Hostname:       "test-host",
+		VaultikVersion: "test",
+		StartedAt:      startedAt,
+		CompletedAt:    &completedAt,
+	}
+
+	repos := database.NewRepositories(db)
+
+	err = repos.WithTx(ctx, func(ctx context.Context, tx *sql.Tx) error {
+		return repos.Snapshots.Create(ctx, tx, snap)
+	})
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+}

internal/cli/entry_prune_quiet_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,127 @@
+package cli //nolint:testpackage // shares runEntry and the hermetic config helpers
+
+import (
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+)
+
+// flagCron is used to build the argument vectors below.
+const flagCron = "--cron"
+
+// plantUnreferencedBlob writes a blob that no snapshot references to the
+// destination store at storeDir, dated long before any prune grace period,
+// so that a prune deletes it. Returns its path.
+func plantUnreferencedBlob(t *testing.T, storeDir string) string {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	hash := strings.Repeat("b", 64)
+	path := filepath.Join(storeDir, "blobs", hash[:2], hash[2:4], hash)
+
+	require.NoError(t, os.MkdirAll(filepath.Dir(path), 0o750))
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(path, []byte("unreferenced"), 0o600))
+
+	longAgo := time.Unix(0, 0)
+	require.NoError(t, os.Chtimes(path, longAgo, longAgo))
+
+	return path
+}
+
+// TestEntrySnapshotCreatePruneIsSilent checks that a successful
+// `snapshot create --prune` under --cron or --quiet prints nothing on
+// stdout or stderr, whether or not the prune finds a blob to delete.
+//
+//nolint:paralleltest // replaces os.Args, os.Stdout, os.Stderr and the xdg globals
+func TestEntrySnapshotCreatePruneIsSilent(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, testCase := range []struct {
+		name      string
+		args      []string
+		plantBlob bool
+	}{
+		{
+			name: "cron, no blob to delete",
+			args: []string{cmdSnapshot, cmdCreate, flagCron, flagPrune},
+		},
+		{
+			name:      "cron, blob to delete",
+			args:      []string{cmdSnapshot, cmdCreate, flagCron, flagPrune},
+			plantBlob: true,
+		},
+		{
+			name: "cron with keep-newer-than",
+			args: []string{
+				cmdSnapshot, cmdCreate, flagCron, flagPrune,
+				flagKeepNewerThan, "4w",
+			},
+			plantBlob: true,
+		},
+		{
+			name:      "quiet",
+			args:      []string{flagQuiet, cmdSnapshot, cmdCreate, flagPrune},
+			plantBlob: true,
+		},
+	} {
+		t.Run(testCase.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			configPath, storeDir := writeBackupConfig(t)
+
+			var blob string
+			if testCase.plantBlob {
+				blob = plantUnreferencedBlob(t, storeDir)
+			}
+
+			code, stdout, stderr := runEntry(t,
+				append([]string{flagConfig, configPath}, testCase.args...)...)
+
+			assert.Equal(t, 0, code)
+			assert.Empty(t, stdout)
+			assert.Empty(t, stderr)
+
+			if testCase.plantBlob {
+				assert.NoFileExists(t, blob, "the prune must delete the blob")
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+// TestEntryPruneQuietIsSilent checks that a successful `prune --force`
+// under --quiet prints nothing on stdout or stderr, both when there is
+// nothing to remove and when it removes a stale local snapshot record
+// and an unreferenced blob.
+//
+//nolint:paralleltest // replaces os.Args, os.Stdout, os.Stderr and the xdg globals
+func TestEntryPruneQuietIsSilent(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, testCase := range []struct {
+		name               string
+		staleRecordAndBlob bool
+	}{
+		{name: "nothing to remove"},
+		{name: "stale record and blob to remove", staleRecordAndBlob: true},
+	} {
+		t.Run(testCase.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			configPath := writeHermeticPruneConfig(t, testCase.staleRecordAndBlob)
+
+			var blob string
+			if testCase.staleRecordAndBlob {
+				// writeHermeticPruneConfig puts the store beside the config.
+				blob = plantUnreferencedBlob(t,
+					filepath.Join(filepath.Dir(configPath), "store"))
+			}
+
+			code, stdout, stderr := runEntry(t,
+				flagConfig, configPath, flagQuiet, cmdPrune, flagForce)
+
+			assert.Equal(t, 0, code)
+			assert.Empty(t, stdout)
+			assert.Empty(t, stderr)
+
+			if testCase.staleRecordAndBlob {
+				assert.NoFileExists(t, blob, "the prune must delete the blob")
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}

internal/cli/entry_snapshot_create_prune_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,185 @@
+package cli //nolint:testpackage // shares runEntry and the hermetic config helpers
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/database"
+)
+
+// Flags of `snapshot create` used to build argument vectors below.
+const (
+	flagPrune         = "--prune"
+	flagKeepNewerThan = "--keep-newer-than"
+)
+
+// TestEntrySnapshotCreateRejectsKeepNewerThanBeforeBackup checks that a
+// --keep-newer-than the post-backup prune could not use stops `snapshot
+// create` before the backup: the command fails and the destination
+// store stays empty. It used to be read only by the prune, after the
+// snapshot was uploaded, and without --prune it was ignored.
+//
+//nolint:paralleltest // replaces os.Args, os.Stdout, os.Stderr and the xdg globals
+func TestEntrySnapshotCreateRejectsKeepNewerThanBeforeBackup(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, testCase := range []struct {
+		name string
+		args []string
+	}{
+		{
+			name: "decimal in a day count",
+			args: []string{flagPrune, flagKeepNewerThan, "1.5d"},
+		},
+		{
+			name: "unknown unit",
+			args: []string{flagPrune, flagKeepNewerThan, "4x"},
+		},
+		{
+			name: "without --prune",
+			args: []string{flagKeepNewerThan, "4w"},
+		},
+	} {
+		t.Run(testCase.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			configPath, storeDir := writeBackupConfig(t)
+
+			code, _, _ := runEntry(t, append(
+				[]string{flagConfig, configPath, cmdSnapshot, cmdCreate},
+				testCase.args...)...)
+
+			assert.Equal(t, 1, code)
+
+			stored, err := os.ReadDir(storeDir)
+			require.NoError(t, err)
+			assert.Empty(t, stored, "nothing may be uploaded")
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+// TestEntrySnapshotCreateReportsPostBackupPruneFailure makes the
+// post-backup prune fail after a good backup, by planting a manifest
+// that cannot be decoded, and checks that the failure is reported as the
+// prune's and not as a failed snapshot creation.
+//
+//nolint:paralleltest // replaces os.Args, os.Stdout, os.Stderr and the xdg globals
+func TestEntrySnapshotCreateReportsPostBackupPruneFailure(t *testing.T) {
+	configPath, storeDir := writeBackupConfig(t)
+
+	// A remote key is 64 lowercase hex characters. The prune reads every
+	// manifest on the store and fails on one it cannot decode.
+	plantedDir := filepath.Join(storeDir, "metadata", strings.Repeat("a", 64))
+	require.NoError(t, os.MkdirAll(plantedDir, 0o750))
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(
+		filepath.Join(plantedDir, "manifest.json.zst"),
+		[]byte("not a valid manifest"), 0o600))
+
+	code, _, stderr := runEntry(t,
+		flagConfig, configPath, cmdSnapshot, cmdCreate, flagPrune)
+
+	assert.Equal(t, 1, code)
+	assert.Contains(t, stderr, "Backup completed, but post-backup prune failed")
+	assert.NotContains(t, stderr, "Snapshot creation failed")
+
+	snapshots, err := os.ReadDir(filepath.Join(storeDir, "metadata"))
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Len(t, snapshots, 2,
+		"the new snapshot is on the store beside the planted one")
+}
+
+// TestEntrySnapshotCreatePruneExitsNonZeroWhenSourceIsEmpty backs up,
+// empties the source directory, as a volume that is not mounted leaves
+// its mount point, and runs `snapshot create --prune`. The command exits
+// non-zero and reports the backup as completed, not as a failed snapshot
+// creation. See https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/vaultik/issues/388.
+//
+//nolint:paralleltest // replaces os.Args, os.Stdout, os.Stderr and the xdg globals
+func TestEntrySnapshotCreatePruneExitsNonZeroWhenSourceIsEmpty(t *testing.T) {
+	configPath, storeDir := writeBackupConfig(t)
+
+	code, _, _ := runEntry(t, flagConfig, configPath, cmdSnapshot, cmdCreate)
+	require.Equal(t, 0, code)
+
+	// writeBackupConfig puts the source directory beside the config file.
+	require.NoError(t, os.Remove(
+		filepath.Join(filepath.Dir(configPath), "source", "file.txt")))
+
+	code, _, stderr := runEntry(t,
+		flagConfig, configPath, cmdSnapshot, cmdCreate, flagPrune)
+
+	assert.Equal(t, 1, code)
+	assert.Contains(t, stderr,
+		"Backup completed, but 1 source path(s) were empty")
+	assert.NotContains(t, stderr, "Snapshot creation failed")
+
+	snapshots, err := os.ReadDir(filepath.Join(storeDir, "metadata"))
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Len(t, snapshots, 2, "the older snapshot is kept")
+}
+
+// TestEntrySnapshotCreatePruneExitsNonZeroWhenMountPointIsMissing backs
+// up, records in the local index that this backup found the source
+// directory as a mount point, and runs `snapshot create --prune`, which
+// does not find it as one. The command exits non-zero, reports the
+// backup as completed, not as a failed snapshot creation, and keeps the
+// older snapshot. See https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/vaultik/issues/395.
+//
+//nolint:paralleltest // replaces os.Args, os.Stdout, os.Stderr and the xdg globals
+func TestEntrySnapshotCreatePruneExitsNonZeroWhenMountPointIsMissing(
+	t *testing.T,
+) {
+	configPath, storeDir := writeBackupConfig(t)
+
+	code, _, _ := runEntry(t, flagConfig, configPath, cmdSnapshot, cmdCreate)
+	require.Equal(t, 0, code)
+
+	// writeBackupConfig puts the source directory and the local index
+	// beside the config file.
+	dir := filepath.Dir(configPath)
+	ctx := context.Background()
+
+	db, err := database.New(ctx, filepath.Join(dir, "index.sqlite"))
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	repos := database.NewRepositories(db)
+
+	backedUp, err := repos.Snapshots.GetOnlySnapshot(ctx)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	require.NoError(t, repos.Snapshots.AddMountPoint(ctx, nil,
+		backedUp.ID.String(), filepath.Join(dir, "source")))
+	require.NoError(t, db.Close())
+
+	code, _, stderr := runEntry(t,
+		flagConfig, configPath, cmdSnapshot, cmdCreate, flagPrune)
+
+	assert.Equal(t, 1, code)
+	assert.Contains(t, stderr, "Backup completed, but 1 mount point(s) "+
+		"an earlier snapshot recorded were not found")
+	assert.NotContains(t, stderr, "Snapshot creation failed")
+
+	snapshots, err := os.ReadDir(filepath.Join(storeDir, "metadata"))
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Len(t, snapshots, 2, "the older snapshot is kept")
+}
+
+// writeBackupConfig builds a hermetic config with one small file in its
+// source directory and an empty destination store directory. Returns the
+// config path and the store directory.
+func writeBackupConfig(t *testing.T) (string, string) {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	configPath := writeHermeticPruneConfig(t, false)
+
+	// writeHermeticPruneConfig puts the source and store directories
+	// beside the config file.
+	dir := filepath.Dir(configPath)
+	sourceDir := filepath.Join(dir, "source")
+
+	require.NoError(t, os.Mkdir(sourceDir, 0o750))
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(
+		filepath.Join(sourceDir, "file.txt"), []byte("hello"), 0o600))
+
+	return configPath, filepath.Join(dir, "store")
+}

internal/cli/entry_snapshot_create_skip_errors_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+package cli //nolint:testpackage // shares runEntry and the hermetic config helpers
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+)
+
+// TestEntrySnapshotCreateSkipErrorsExitsNonZeroWhenItSkips backs up,
+// under --skip-errors, a source directory that does not exist, which the
+// walk skips. The command exits non-zero and reports the backup as
+// completed, not as a failed snapshot creation. See
+// https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/vaultik/issues/310.
+//
+//nolint:paralleltest // replaces os.Args, os.Stdout, os.Stderr and the xdg globals
+func TestEntrySnapshotCreateSkipErrorsExitsNonZeroWhenItSkips(t *testing.T) {
+	// writeBackupConfig would create the source directory.
+	configPath := writeHermeticPruneConfig(t, false)
+
+	code, stdout, stderr := runEntry(t,
+		flagConfig, configPath, "--skip-errors", cmdSnapshot, cmdCreate)
+
+	assert.Equal(t, 1, code)
+	assert.Contains(t, stdout,
+		"Files: 1 examined, 0 backed up, 0 unchanged, 1 failed.")
+	assert.NotContains(t, stdout, "Finished successfully.")
+	assert.Contains(t, stderr,
+		"Backup completed, but 1 file(s) could not be read")
+	assert.NotContains(t, stderr, "Snapshot creation failed")
+}

internal/cli/entry_snapshot_purge_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+package cli //nolint:testpackage // shares runEntry and the hermetic config helpers
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/database"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/snapshot"
+)
+
+// Words and flags of `snapshot purge` used to build argument vectors
+// below.
+const (
+	cmdPurge      = "purge"
+	flagOlderThan = "--older-than"
+	flagForce     = "--force"
+)
+
+// TestEntrySnapshotPurgeKeepsMetadataWhenLocalIndexDeleteFails makes
+// the local index refuse to delete an old snapshot and checks that
+// `snapshot purge` exits non-zero and leaves that snapshot's metadata on
+// the destination store. It used to log the error, delete the metadata
+// and exit 0.
+//
+// `snapshot create --prune` runs the same purge, but cannot be driven
+// this way: the refusal also breaks the backup's metadata export, which
+// deletes the other snapshots from its copy of the local index.
+//
+//nolint:paralleltest // replaces os.Args, os.Stdout, os.Stderr and the xdg globals
+func TestEntrySnapshotPurgeKeepsMetadataWhenLocalIndexDeleteFails(t *testing.T) {
+	configPath := writeHermeticPruneConfig(t, false)
+	dir := filepath.Dir(configPath)
+	indexPath := filepath.Join(dir, "index.sqlite")
+
+	// seedStaleSnapshotRecord writes an old snapshot to the local index
+	// only; the manifest planted here puts it on the destination store
+	// too, so the purge selects it rather than dropping it as stale.
+	seedStaleSnapshotRecord(t, indexPath)
+
+	// While the local index holds a snapshot, purge fails on a
+	// destination that answers that it has no marker.
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(
+		filepath.Join(dir, "store", "vaultik-destination.txt"), nil, 0o600))
+
+	manifestDir := filepath.Join(dir, "store", "metadata",
+		snapshot.RemoteSnapshotKey(stalePruneSnapshotID))
+	require.NoError(t, os.MkdirAll(manifestDir, 0o750))
+
+	manifestPath := filepath.Join(manifestDir, "manifest.json.zst")
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(manifestPath, []byte("stub"), 0o600))
+
+	ctx := context.Background()
+
+	db, err := database.New(ctx, indexPath)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	_, err = db.Conn().ExecContext(ctx, `
+		CREATE TRIGGER refuse_snapshot_delete BEFORE DELETE ON snapshots
+		BEGIN SELECT RAISE(ABORT, 'simulated index error'); END`)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	require.NoError(t, db.Close())
+
+	code, _, stderr := runEntry(t, flagConfig, configPath,
+		cmdSnapshot, cmdPurge, flagOlderThan, "30d", flagForce)
+
+	assert.Equal(t, 1, code)
+	assert.Contains(t, stderr, "simulated index error",
+		"the purge must fail at the local-index delete")
+	assert.FileExists(t, manifestPath,
+		"the snapshot is still in the local index, so its metadata must stay")
+}

internal/cli/entry_status_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+package cli //nolint:testpackage // shares programName and the capture helpers
+
+import (
+	"os"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+)
+
+// TestEntryReturnsStatusCode pins the contract main() relies on for
+// issue #75: Entry reports success or failure through its return value
+// and never calls os.Exit. An os.Exit from inside Entry would skip
+// main's deferred profile writers and truncate the profile of a failing
+// command. main turns this code into os.Exit only after those defers
+// run, so a failing command must come back with a non-zero code rather
+// than ending the process here.
+//
+// Stdout and stderr are captured only to keep the banner and command
+// output off the test log; the assertion is on the returned code.
+//
+//nolint:paralleltest // replaces os.Args and rootFlags
+func TestEntryReturnsStatusCode(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, testCase := range []struct {
+		name string
+		args []string
+		want int
+	}{
+		{
+			// version is self-contained: it needs no config and no
+			// destination store, so it exercises the success path.
+			name: "successful command returns zero",
+			args: []string{programName, "version"},
+			want: 0,
+		},
+		{
+			name: "unknown command returns one",
+			args: []string{programName, "no-such-command"},
+			want: 1,
+		},
+	} {
+		t.Run(testCase.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			previousArgs := os.Args
+
+			t.Cleanup(func() {
+				os.Args = previousArgs
+				rootFlags = RootFlags{}
+			})
+
+			os.Args = testCase.args
+
+			var code int
+
+			_, _ = captureProcessStdoutAndStderr(t, func() { code = Entry() })
+
+			assert.Equal(t, testCase.want, code)
+		})
+	}
+}

internal/cli/entry_stdout_stderr_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,200 @@
+package cli //nolint:testpackage // shares hermeticConfig and the capture helpers
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"fmt"
+	"log/slog"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/adrg/xdg"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/database"
+)
+
+// TestEntryCompletionStdoutIsTheScript runs `vaultik completion bash`,
+// whose stdout the README tells the user to source. The script has to
+// start on the first line.
+//
+//nolint:paralleltest // replaces os.Args, os.Stdout and os.Stderr
+func TestEntryCompletionStdoutIsTheScript(t *testing.T) {
+	code, stdout, _ := runEntry(t, "completion", "bash")
+
+	require.Equal(t, 0, code)
+
+	firstLine, _, _ := strings.Cut(stdout, "\n")
+	assert.True(t, strings.HasPrefix(firstLine, "# bash completion"),
+		"the first line of stdout must be the script's, got %q", firstLine)
+}
+
+// TestEntryConfigGetStdoutIsTheValue runs `vaultik config get`, whose
+// stdout a script reads as the value and nothing else.
+//
+//nolint:paralleltest // replaces os.Args, os.Stdout and os.Stderr
+func TestEntryConfigGetStdoutIsTheValue(t *testing.T) {
+	configPath := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "config.yml")
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(configPath,
+		[]byte("hostname: test-host\n"), configFileMode))
+
+	code, stdout, _ := runEntry(t,
+		flagConfig, configPath, "config", "get", "hostname")
+
+	require.Equal(t, 0, code)
+	assert.Equal(t, "test-host\n", stdout)
+}
+
+// TestEntryJSONFailureIsReportedOnStderr runs each --json command that
+// writes no document when it fails, against a destination it cannot
+// use. The error must reach stderr, and stdout must stay empty.
+//
+//nolint:paralleltest // replaces os.Args, os.Stdout, os.Stderr and the xdg globals
+func TestEntryJSONFailureIsReportedOnStderr(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, testCase := range []struct {
+		name         string
+		args         []string
+		wantOnStderr string
+	}{
+		{
+			name:         "remote info",
+			args:         []string{cmdRemote, cmdInfo, flagJSON},
+			wantOnStderr: "Failed to get remote info",
+		},
+		{
+			name:         "prune",
+			args:         []string{cmdPrune, flagJSON},
+			wantOnStderr: "Prune failed",
+		},
+		{
+			name:         "snapshot remove",
+			args:         []string{cmdSnapshot, cmdRemove, someSnapshotID, flagJSON},
+			wantOnStderr: "Failed to remove snapshot",
+		},
+	} {
+		t.Run(testCase.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			configPath := writeUnusableDestinationConfig(t)
+
+			code, stdout, stderr := runEntry(t,
+				append([]string{flagConfig, configPath}, testCase.args...)...)
+
+			assert.Equal(t, 1, code)
+			assert.Empty(t, stdout,
+				"a failed --json command has no document to write")
+			assert.Contains(t, stderr, testCase.wantOnStderr,
+				"the failure must be reported on stderr")
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+// TestEntrySnapshotRemoveJSONWarningIsOnStderr runs `snapshot remove
+// --json` on a snapshot in the local index, against a destination
+// directory that does not exist. The command removes the snapshot from
+// the local index and still exits 0. Its stdout must hold the document
+// alone, with the warning about the destination store on stderr: the
+// command to run again once it is reachable, and the snapshot's ID in
+// the record's snapshot_id field.
+//
+//nolint:paralleltest // replaces os.Args, os.Stdout, os.Stderr and the xdg globals
+func TestEntrySnapshotRemoveJSONWarningIsOnStderr(t *testing.T) {
+	configPath, indexPath := writeMissingDestinationConfig(t)
+	seedStaleSnapshotRecord(t, indexPath)
+
+	code, stdout, stderr := runEntry(t, flagConfig, configPath,
+		cmdSnapshot, cmdRemove, stalePruneSnapshotID, flagJSON)
+
+	require.Equal(t, 0, code)
+	requireExactlyOneJSONDocument(t, stdout)
+
+	// stderr is a pipe here, so the logger writes one JSON record a line.
+	var warning map[string]any
+
+	for line := range strings.Lines(stderr) {
+		if strings.Contains(line,
+			"Could not remove snapshot metadata from remote storage") {
+			require.NoError(t, json.Unmarshal([]byte(line), &warning))
+		}
+	}
+
+	require.NotNil(t, warning, "the warning must reach stderr")
+	assert.Contains(t, warning[slog.MessageKey],
+		"run 'vaultik snapshot remove' with the snapshot's ID again")
+	assert.Equal(t, stalePruneSnapshotID, warning["snapshot_id"])
+}
+
+// writeMissingDestinationConfig builds a config whose destination
+// directory does not exist. Returns the config path and the path of
+// its local index, which is not created here.
+func writeMissingDestinationConfig(t *testing.T) (string, string) {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	dir := t.TempDir()
+	configPath := filepath.Join(dir, "config.yml")
+	indexPath := filepath.Join(dir, "index.sqlite")
+
+	contents := fmt.Sprintf(hermeticConfig,
+		filepath.Join(dir, "source"),
+		filepath.Join(dir, "missing-store"),
+		indexPath)
+
+	require.NoError(t,
+		os.WriteFile(configPath, []byte(contents), configFileMode))
+
+	// The PID lock lives under xdg.DataHome, which xdg resolves at
+	// package init; point it at the temp dir so the test neither
+	// touches nor collides with the real one.
+	t.Setenv("XDG_DATA_HOME", filepath.Join(dir, "data"))
+	xdg.Reload()
+	t.Cleanup(xdg.Reload)
+
+	return configPath, indexPath
+}
+
+// writeUnusableDestinationConfig builds a config whose destination
+// directory does not exist, which fails `remote info`, and whose local
+// index is bound to another destination, which fails `prune` and
+// `snapshot remove` (a missing destination alone only makes `snapshot
+// remove` warn). Returns the config path.
+func writeUnusableDestinationConfig(t *testing.T) string {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	configPath, indexPath := writeMissingDestinationConfig(t)
+
+	ctx := context.Background()
+
+	db, err := database.New(ctx, indexPath)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	defer func() { require.NoError(t, db.Close()) }()
+
+	require.NoError(t, database.NewRepositories(db).LocalMeta.Set(ctx,
+		database.LocalMetaKeyStorageURL, "file://"+t.TempDir()))
+
+	return configPath
+}
+
+// runEntry runs Entry with args after the program name and returns its
+// exit code and what it wrote to stdout and stderr.
+//
+// Not parallel-safe: it replaces os.Args, os.Stdout and os.Stderr.
+func runEntry(t *testing.T, args ...string) (int, string, string) {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	previousArgs := os.Args
+
+	t.Cleanup(func() {
+		os.Args = previousArgs
+		rootFlags = RootFlags{}
+	})
+
+	os.Args = append([]string{programName}, args...)
+
+	var code int
+
+	stdout, stderr := captureProcessStdoutAndStderr(t,
+		func() { code = Entry() })
+
+	return code, stdout, stderr
+}

internal/cli/entry_test.go

@@ -1,14 +1,18 @@
-package cli
+package cli_test
 
 import (
 	"testing"
+
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/cli"
 )
 
 // TestCLIEntry ensures the CLI can be imported and basic initialization works
 func TestCLIEntry(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
 	// This test primarily serves as a compilation test
 	// to ensure all imports resolve correctly
-	cmd := NewRootCommand()
+	cmd := cli.NewRootCommand()
 	if cmd == nil {
 		t.Fatal("NewRootCommand() returned nil")
 	}
@@ -18,33 +22,48 @@ func TestCLIEntry(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 
 	// Verify all subcommands are registered
-	expectedCommands := []string{"backup", "restore", "prune", "verify", "fetch"}
+	expectedCommands := []string{
+		"config", "snapshot", "prune", "info", "version", "remote", "database",
+	}
 	for _, expected := range expectedCommands {
 		found := false
+
 		for _, cmd := range cmd.Commands() {
 			if cmd.Use == expected || cmd.Name() == expected {
 				found = true
+
 				break
 			}
 		}
+
 		if !found {
 			t.Errorf("Expected command '%s' not found", expected)
 		}
 	}
 
-	// Verify backup command has proper flags
+	// Verify snapshot command has subcommands
-	backupCmd, _, err := cmd.Find([]string{"backup"})
+	snapshotCmd, _, err := cmd.Find([]string{"snapshot"})
 	if err != nil {
-		t.Errorf("Failed to find backup command: %v", err)
+		t.Errorf("Failed to find snapshot command: %v", err)
 	} else {
-		if backupCmd.Flag("config") == nil {
+		// Check snapshot subcommands
-			t.Error("Backup command missing --config flag")
+		expectedSubCommands := []string{
+			"create", "list", "purge", "verify", "remove", "restore",
 		}
-		if backupCmd.Flag("daemon") == nil {
+		for _, expected := range expectedSubCommands {
-			t.Error("Backup command missing --daemon flag")
+			found := false
+
+			for _, subcmd := range snapshotCmd.Commands() {
+				if subcmd.Use == expected || subcmd.Name() == expected {
+					found = true
+
+					break
+				}
+			}
+
+			if !found {
+				t.Errorf("Expected snapshot subcommand '%s' not found", expected)
 			}
-		if backupCmd.Flag("cron") == nil {
-			t.Error("Backup command missing --cron flag")
 		}
 	}
 }

internal/cli/entry_unknown_subcommand_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+package cli //nolint:testpackage // shares runEntry and the command-word constants
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+)
+
+// TestEntryGroupRejectsUnknownSubcommand runs each group command with a
+// mistyped subcommand, as a crontab line might carry one. It must fail
+// with exit 1 and name the word, as `vaultik bogus` does at the top
+// level, instead of printing the group's help and exiting 0 having done
+// nothing. The group name alone still prints its help.
+//
+//nolint:paralleltest // replaces os.Args, os.Stdout and os.Stderr
+func TestEntryGroupRejectsUnknownSubcommand(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, testCase := range []struct {
+		group    string
+		mistyped string
+	}{
+		{group: cmdSnapshot, mistyped: "craete"},
+		{group: "config", mistyped: "inti"},
+		{group: cmdRemote, mistyped: "ifno"},
+		{group: "database", mistyped: "delte"},
+		{group: "completion", mistyped: "nosuchshell"},
+	} {
+		t.Run(testCase.group, func(t *testing.T) {
+			code, stdout, stderr := runEntry(t,
+				testCase.group, testCase.mistyped)
+
+			assert.Equal(t, 1, code)
+			assert.Empty(t, stdout)
+			assert.Contains(t, stderr,
+				`unknown command "`+testCase.mistyped+`"`)
+
+			code, stdout, _ = runEntry(t, testCase.group)
+
+			assert.Equal(t, 0, code)
+			assert.Contains(t, stdout,
+				programName+" "+testCase.group+" [command]")
+		})
+	}
+}

internal/cli/fetch.go

@@ -1,88 +0,0 @@
-package cli
-
-import (
-	"context"
-	"fmt"
-	"os"
-
-	"git.eeqj.de/sneak/vaultik/internal/globals"
-	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
-	"go.uber.org/fx"
-)
-
-// FetchOptions contains options for the fetch command
-type FetchOptions struct {
-	Bucket     string
-	Prefix     string
-	SnapshotID string
-	FilePath   string
-	Target     string
-}
-
-// NewFetchCommand creates the fetch command
-func NewFetchCommand() *cobra.Command {
-	opts := &FetchOptions{}
-
-	cmd := &cobra.Command{
-		Use:   "fetch",
-		Short: "Extract single file from backup",
-		Long:  `Download and decrypt a single file from a backup snapshot`,
-		Args:  cobra.NoArgs,
-		RunE: func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
-			// Validate required flags
-			if opts.Bucket == "" {
-				return fmt.Errorf("--bucket is required")
-			}
-			if opts.Prefix == "" {
-				return fmt.Errorf("--prefix is required")
-			}
-			if opts.SnapshotID == "" {
-				return fmt.Errorf("--snapshot is required")
-			}
-			if opts.FilePath == "" {
-				return fmt.Errorf("--file is required")
-			}
-			if opts.Target == "" {
-				return fmt.Errorf("--target is required")
-			}
-			return runFetch(cmd.Context(), opts)
-		},
-	}
-
-	cmd.Flags().StringVar(&opts.Bucket, "bucket", "", "S3 bucket name")
-	cmd.Flags().StringVar(&opts.Prefix, "prefix", "", "S3 prefix")
-	cmd.Flags().StringVar(&opts.SnapshotID, "snapshot", "", "Snapshot ID")
-	cmd.Flags().StringVar(&opts.FilePath, "file", "", "Path of file to extract from backup")
-	cmd.Flags().StringVar(&opts.Target, "target", "", "Target path for extracted file")
-
-	return cmd
-}
-
-func runFetch(ctx context.Context, opts *FetchOptions) error {
-	if os.Getenv("VAULTIK_PRIVATE_KEY") == "" {
-		return fmt.Errorf("VAULTIK_PRIVATE_KEY environment variable must be set")
-	}
-
-	app := fx.New(
-		fx.Supply(opts),
-		fx.Provide(globals.New),
-		// Additional modules will be added here
-		fx.Invoke(func(g *globals.Globals) error {
-			// TODO: Implement fetch logic
-			fmt.Printf("Fetching %s from snapshot %s to %s\n", opts.FilePath, opts.SnapshotID, opts.Target)
-			return nil
-		}),
-		fx.NopLogger,
-	)
-
-	if err := app.Start(ctx); err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("failed to start fetch: %w", err)
-	}
-	defer func() {
-		if err := app.Stop(ctx); err != nil {
-			fmt.Printf("error stopping app: %v\n", err)
-		}
-	}()
-
-	return nil
-}

internal/cli/info.go

@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+package cli
+
+import (
+	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/log"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/vaultik"
+)
+
+// NewInfoCommand creates the info command
+func NewInfoCommand() *cobra.Command {
+	cmd := &cobra.Command{
+		Use:   "info",
+		Short: "Display system and configuration information",
+		Long: `Shows information about the current vaultik configuration, including:
+- System details (OS, architecture, version)
+- Storage configuration (S3 bucket, endpoint)
+- Backup settings (source directories, compression)
+- Encryption configuration (recipients)
+- Local database statistics`,
+		Args: cobra.NoArgs,
+		RunE: func(cmd *cobra.Command, _ []string) error {
+			// Use unified config resolution
+			configPath, err := ResolveConfigPath()
+			if err != nil {
+				return err
+			}
+
+			// Use the app framework
+			rootFlags := GetRootFlags()
+
+			return RunOperation(cmd.Context(), AppOptions{
+				ConfigPath: configPath,
+				LogOptions: log.Options{
+					Verbose: rootFlags.Verbose,
+					Debug:   rootFlags.Debug,
+					Quiet:   rootFlags.Quiet,
+				},
+				Mode: readOnly,
+			}, func(v *vaultik.Vaultik) error {
+				return v.ShowInfo()
+			}, func(err error) {
+				log.Error("Failed to show info", "error", err)
+				ReportErrorf("Failed to show info: %v", err)
+			})
+		},
+	}
+
+	return cmd
+}

internal/cli/json_help_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+package cli //nolint:testpackage // exercises the unexported command constructor
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+)
+
+// TestJSONHelpSaysConfirmationPromptIsSkipped checks that the --json help
+// of `snapshot remove` and `prune` says the flag skips the confirmation
+// prompt. Both delete without asking under --json, since a prompt on
+// stdout would break the JSON document.
+func TestJSONHelpSaysConfirmationPromptIsSkipped(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	for _, cmd := range []*cobra.Command{
+		newSnapshotRemoveCommand(),
+		NewPruneCommand(),
+	} {
+		assert.Contains(t, cmd.Flags().Lookup("json").Usage,
+			"skips the confirmation prompt", cmd.Name())
+	}
+}

internal/cli/prune.go

@@ -1,78 +1,78 @@
 package cli
 
 import (
-	"context"
-	"fmt"
-	"os"
-
-	"git.eeqj.de/sneak/vaultik/internal/globals"
 	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
-	"go.uber.org/fx"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/log"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/vaultik"
 )
 
-// PruneOptions contains options for the prune command
-type PruneOptions struct {
-	Bucket string
-	Prefix string
-	DryRun bool
-}
-
 // NewPruneCommand creates the prune command
 func NewPruneCommand() *cobra.Command {
-	opts := &PruneOptions{}
+	opts := &vaultik.PruneOptions{}
 
 	cmd := &cobra.Command{
 		Use:   "prune",
-		Short: "Remove unreferenced blobs",
+		Short: "Tidy local database and remote storage",
-		Long:  `Delete blobs that are no longer referenced by any snapshot`,
+		Long: `Removes orphaned data from the local index database, and
+unreferenced blobs and directories under metadata/ with no manifest
+from the backup destination store.
+
+Needs permission to list, read and delete objects on the destination
+store. It does not need the age private key.
+
+Local cleanup drops snapshots whose manifest is gone from the
+destination store, incomplete snapshots, and any files, chunks, or
+blobs no longer referenced by a completed snapshot. Remote cleanup
+scans every snapshot manifest in the destination store, builds the
+set of still-referenced blob hashes, and deletes any blob not in that
+set that is older than prune_grace_period (default 24h). A newer one
+is kept: it may belong to a backup still running, on this host or
+another sharing the destination store, that has not yet uploaded its
+manifest. The grace period does not protect a blob such a backup
+reuses from an earlier run that stopped before its manifest: that
+blob keeps the time of its first upload, so it can be deleted.
+Remote cleanup also deletes each directory under metadata/ with no
+manifest, as a backup that stopped before its manifest leaves, once
+all its objects are older than prune_grace_period and its snapshot is
+not in the local index.
+
+Snapshot create --prune runs the same cleanup automatically; this
+command is the manual entry point for the same work (e.g. after a
+crashed backup or to reclaim storage). Snapshot remove leaves blobs in
+place; run this command afterwards to delete the ones no longer
+referenced.`,
 		Args: cobra.NoArgs,
-		RunE: func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
+		RunE: func(cmd *cobra.Command, _ []string) error {
-			// Validate required flags
+			// Use unified config resolution
-			if opts.Bucket == "" {
+			configPath, err := ResolveConfigPath()
-				return fmt.Errorf("--bucket is required")
+			if err != nil {
+				return err
 			}
-			if opts.Prefix == "" {
+
-				return fmt.Errorf("--prefix is required")
+			// Use the app framework like other commands
-			}
+			rootFlags := GetRootFlags()
-			return runPrune(cmd.Context(), opts)
+
+			return RunOperation(cmd.Context(), AppOptions{
+				ConfigPath: configPath,
+				LogOptions: log.Options{
+					Verbose: rootFlags.Verbose,
+					Debug:   rootFlags.Debug,
+					Quiet:   rootFlags.Quiet,
+					JSON:    opts.JSON,
+				},
+				Mode: mutating,
+			}, func(v *vaultik.Vaultik) error {
+				return v.Prune(opts)
+			}, func(err error) {
+				log.Error("Prune operation failed", "error", err)
+				ReportErrorf("Prune failed: %v", err)
+			})
 		},
 	}
 
-	cmd.Flags().StringVar(&opts.Bucket, "bucket", "", "S3 bucket name")
+	cmd.Flags().BoolVar(&opts.Force, "force", false, "Skip confirmation prompt")
-	cmd.Flags().StringVar(&opts.Prefix, "prefix", "", "S3 prefix")
+	cmd.Flags().BoolVar(&opts.JSON, "json", false,
-	cmd.Flags().BoolVar(&opts.DryRun, "dry-run", false, "Show what would be deleted without actually deleting")
+		"Output pruning stats as JSON; skips the confirmation prompt, as --force does")
 
 	return cmd
 }
-
-func runPrune(ctx context.Context, opts *PruneOptions) error {
-	if os.Getenv("VAULTIK_PRIVATE_KEY") == "" {
-		return fmt.Errorf("VAULTIK_PRIVATE_KEY environment variable must be set")
-	}
-
-	app := fx.New(
-		fx.Supply(opts),
-		fx.Provide(globals.New),
-		// Additional modules will be added here
-		fx.Invoke(func(g *globals.Globals) error {
-			// TODO: Implement prune logic
-			fmt.Printf("Pruning bucket %s with prefix %s\n", opts.Bucket, opts.Prefix)
-			if opts.DryRun {
-				fmt.Println("Running in dry-run mode")
-			}
-			return nil
-		}),
-		fx.NopLogger,
-	)
-
-	if err := app.Start(ctx); err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("failed to start prune: %w", err)
-	}
-	defer func() {
-		if err := app.Stop(ctx); err != nil {
-			fmt.Printf("error stopping app: %v\n", err)
-		}
-	}()
-
-	return nil
-}

internal/cli/quiet_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,206 @@
+package cli //nolint:testpackage // sets the unexported rootFlags directly
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"fmt"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
+)
+
+// setRootFlags overrides the global rootFlags for the duration of one
+// test and restores it afterward. These tests must not run in parallel:
+// the flags are process-global, so the whole struct is saved and put
+// back rather than left mutated for the next test.
+func setRootFlags(t *testing.T, f RootFlags) {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	old := rootFlags
+	rootFlags = f
+
+	t.Cleanup(func() { rootFlags = old })
+}
+
+// seedFile writes content to a fresh file and returns its path.
+func seedFile(t *testing.T, dir, name, content string) string {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	path := filepath.Join(dir, name)
+
+	err := os.WriteFile(path, []byte(content), 0o600)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("seeding %s: %v", name, err)
+	}
+
+	return path
+}
+
+// mustExecute runs a command with its output captured and fails the test
+// if it errors, returning what the command printed.
+func mustExecute(t *testing.T, cmd *cobra.Command, args ...string) string {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	var out bytes.Buffer
+
+	cmd.SetOut(&out)
+	cmd.SetArgs(args)
+
+	err := cmd.Execute()
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("%s failed: %v", cmd.Name(), err)
+	}
+
+	return out.String()
+}
+
+// TestVersionQuietSuppressesReport checks that --quiet silences the whole
+// version report: it is human-facing output, not a scriptable value.
+//
+//nolint:paralleltest // mutates the process-global rootFlags
+func TestVersionQuietSuppressesReport(t *testing.T) {
+	setRootFlags(t, RootFlags{Quiet: true})
+
+	out := mustExecute(t, NewVersionCommand())
+
+	if out != "" {
+		t.Errorf("--quiet version printed %q, want nothing", out)
+	}
+}
+
+// TestConfigGetIgnoresQuiet checks that a config value is printed even
+// under --quiet: it is scriptable output a caller depends on, so --quiet
+// must not suppress it, and it stays machine-plain (no marker, no color).
+//
+//nolint:paralleltest // mutates the process-global rootFlags
+func TestConfigGetIgnoresQuiet(t *testing.T) {
+	dir := t.TempDir()
+	path := seedFile(t, dir, "config.yml", "storage_url: file:///mnt/x\n")
+
+	setRootFlags(t, RootFlags{Quiet: true, ConfigPath: path})
+
+	out := mustExecute(t, newConfigGetCommand(), "storage_url")
+
+	if out != "file:///mnt/x\n" {
+		t.Errorf("config get --quiet = %q, want the plain value", out)
+	}
+}
+
+// TestConfigSetQuietSuppressesConfirmation checks that --quiet silences
+// the confirmation line while still writing the value to the file.
+//
+//nolint:paralleltest // mutates the process-global rootFlags
+func TestConfigSetQuietSuppressesConfirmation(t *testing.T) {
+	dir := t.TempDir()
+	path := seedFile(t, dir, "config.yml", "compression_level: 3\n")
+
+	setRootFlags(t, RootFlags{Quiet: true, ConfigPath: path})
+
+	out := mustExecute(t, newConfigSetCommand(), "compression_level", "9")
+
+	if out != "" {
+		t.Errorf("--quiet config set printed %q, want nothing", out)
+	}
+
+	data, err := os.ReadFile(path) //nolint:gosec // G304: test-controlled path
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("reading config back: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	if !strings.Contains(string(data), "compression_level: 9") {
+		t.Errorf("config set did not write the value under --quiet:\n%s", data)
+	}
+}
+
+// TestConfigSetConfirmsWhenNotQuiet checks that the confirmation names
+// the key (styled) when --quiet is not set.
+//
+//nolint:paralleltest // mutates the process-global rootFlags
+func TestConfigSetConfirmsWhenNotQuiet(t *testing.T) {
+	dir := t.TempDir()
+	path := seedFile(t, dir, "config.yml", "compression_level: 3\n")
+
+	setRootFlags(t, RootFlags{ConfigPath: path})
+
+	out := mustExecute(t, newConfigSetCommand(), "compression_level", "9")
+
+	if !strings.Contains(out, "compression_level") {
+		t.Errorf("config set did not confirm the key: %q", out)
+	}
+}
+
+// TestConfigInitQuietSuppressesConfirmation checks that --quiet silences
+// the "config written" confirmation while still writing the file.
+//
+//nolint:paralleltest // mutates the process-global rootFlags
+func TestConfigInitQuietSuppressesConfirmation(t *testing.T) {
+	dir := t.TempDir()
+	path := filepath.Join(dir, "new-config.yml")
+
+	setRootFlags(t, RootFlags{Quiet: true, ConfigPath: path})
+
+	out := mustExecute(t, newConfigInitCommand())
+
+	if out != "" {
+		t.Errorf("--quiet config init printed %q, want nothing", out)
+	}
+
+	_, err := os.Stat(path)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Errorf("config init did not write the file under --quiet: %v", err)
+	}
+}
+
+// seedDatabaseDeleteConfig writes a valid config whose index_path is a
+// seeded database file, and returns both paths.
+func seedDatabaseDeleteConfig(t *testing.T, dir string) (string, string) {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	dbPath := seedFile(t, dir, "index.sqlite", "not-a-real-db")
+	cfg := fmt.Sprintf(hermeticConfig,
+		filepath.Join(dir, "source"), filepath.Join(dir, "store"), dbPath)
+	cfgPath := seedFile(t, dir, "config.yml", cfg)
+
+	return dbPath, cfgPath
+}
+
+// TestDatabaseDeleteQuietSuppressesMessage checks that --quiet silences
+// the "database deleted" line while still removing the file.
+//
+//nolint:paralleltest // mutates the process-global rootFlags
+func TestDatabaseDeleteQuietSuppressesMessage(t *testing.T) {
+	dir := t.TempDir()
+	dbPath, cfgPath := seedDatabaseDeleteConfig(t, dir)
+
+	setRootFlags(t, RootFlags{Quiet: true, ConfigPath: cfgPath})
+
+	out := mustExecute(t, newDatabaseDeleteCommand(), "--force")
+
+	if out != "" {
+		t.Errorf("--quiet database delete printed %q, want nothing", out)
+	}
+
+	_, err := os.Stat(dbPath)
+	if !os.IsNotExist(err) {
+		t.Errorf("database delete did not remove the file: stat err = %v", err)
+	}
+}
+
+// TestDatabaseDeleteReportsWhenNotQuiet checks that the deletion is
+// reported when --quiet is not set.
+//
+//nolint:paralleltest // mutates the process-global rootFlags
+func TestDatabaseDeleteReportsWhenNotQuiet(t *testing.T) {
+	dir := t.TempDir()
+	_, cfgPath := seedDatabaseDeleteConfig(t, dir)
+
+	setRootFlags(t, RootFlags{ConfigPath: cfgPath})
+
+	out := mustExecute(t, newDatabaseDeleteCommand(), "--force")
+
+	if !strings.Contains(out, "deleted") {
+		t.Errorf("database delete did not report the deletion: %q", out)
+	}
+}

internal/cli/remote.go

@@ -0,0 +1,115 @@
+package cli
+
+import (
+	"errors"
+
+	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/log"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/vaultik"
+)
+
+// errNukeNeedsForce guards the destructive 'remote nuke' subcommand.
+var errNukeNeedsForce = errors.New(
+	"remote nuke requires --force (this deletes ALL remote snapshots and blobs)")
+
+// NewRemoteCommand creates the remote command and subcommands
+func NewRemoteCommand() *cobra.Command {
+	cmd := &cobra.Command{
+		Use:   "remote",
+		Short: "Remote storage management commands",
+		Long:  "Commands for inspecting and managing remote storage",
+		// cobra checks Args only on a command that has a Run: without
+		// one, a mistyped subcommand printed help and exited 0.
+		Args: cobra.NoArgs,
+		Run: func(cmd *cobra.Command, _ []string) {
+			_ = cmd.Help()
+		},
+	}
+
+	// Add subcommands
+	cmd.AddCommand(newRemoteInfoCommand())
+	cmd.AddCommand(newRemoteNukeCommand())
+
+	return cmd
+}
+
+// newRemoteNukeCommand creates the 'remote nuke' subcommand.
+func newRemoteNukeCommand() *cobra.Command {
+	var force bool
+
+	cmd := &cobra.Command{
+		Use:   "nuke",
+		Short: "Delete ALL snapshot metadata and blobs from the backup destination store",
+		Long: `Removes every snapshot's metadata, every blob and the destination
+marker from the backup destination store, and each removed snapshot from
+the local index. After this command completes successfully the bucket
+prefix is empty and the next backup starts from scratch.
+
+This is destructive and irreversible. Requires --force, and permission
+to list and delete objects on the destination store.`,
+		Args: cobra.NoArgs,
+		RunE: func(cmd *cobra.Command, _ []string) error {
+			if !force {
+				return errNukeNeedsForce
+			}
+
+			return runVaultikApp(cmd, mutating, false, "Remote nuke failed",
+				func(v *vaultik.Vaultik) error {
+					return v.NukeRemote(true)
+				})
+		},
+	}
+
+	cmd.Flags().BoolVar(&force, "force", false,
+		"Required: confirm destruction of ALL remote data")
+
+	return cmd
+}
+
+// newRemoteInfoCommand creates the 'remote info' subcommand
+func newRemoteInfoCommand() *cobra.Command {
+	var jsonOutput bool
+
+	cmd := &cobra.Command{
+		Use:   "info",
+		Short: "Display remote storage information",
+		Long: `Shows detailed information about remote storage, including:
+- Size of all snapshot metadata (per snapshot and total)
+- Count and total size of all blobs
+- Count and size of referenced blobs (from all manifests)
+- Count and size of orphaned blobs (not referenced by any manifest)
+
+Needs permission to list and read the destination store. It does not
+need the age private key.`,
+		Args: cobra.NoArgs,
+		RunE: func(cmd *cobra.Command, _ []string) error {
+			// Use unified config resolution
+			configPath, err := ResolveConfigPath()
+			if err != nil {
+				return err
+			}
+
+			rootFlags := GetRootFlags()
+
+			return RunOperation(cmd.Context(), AppOptions{
+				ConfigPath: configPath,
+				LogOptions: log.Options{
+					Verbose: rootFlags.Verbose,
+					Debug:   rootFlags.Debug,
+					Quiet:   rootFlags.Quiet,
+					JSON:    jsonOutput,
+				},
+				Mode: readOnly,
+			}, func(v *vaultik.Vaultik) error {
+				return v.RemoteInfo(jsonOutput)
+			}, func(err error) {
+				log.Error("Failed to get remote info", "error", err)
+				ReportErrorf("Failed to get remote info: %v", err)
+			})
+		},
+	}
+
+	cmd.Flags().BoolVar(&jsonOutput, "json", false, "Output in JSON format")
+
+	return cmd
+}

internal/cli/restore.go

@@ -1,83 +0,0 @@
-package cli
-
-import (
-	"context"
-	"fmt"
-	"os"
-
-	"git.eeqj.de/sneak/vaultik/internal/globals"
-	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
-	"go.uber.org/fx"
-)
-
-// RestoreOptions contains options for the restore command
-type RestoreOptions struct {
-	Bucket     string
-	Prefix     string
-	SnapshotID string
-	TargetDir  string
-}
-
-// NewRestoreCommand creates the restore command
-func NewRestoreCommand() *cobra.Command {
-	opts := &RestoreOptions{}
-
-	cmd := &cobra.Command{
-		Use:   "restore",
-		Short: "Restore files from backup",
-		Long:  `Download and decrypt files from a backup snapshot`,
-		Args:  cobra.NoArgs,
-		RunE: func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
-			// Validate required flags
-			if opts.Bucket == "" {
-				return fmt.Errorf("--bucket is required")
-			}
-			if opts.Prefix == "" {
-				return fmt.Errorf("--prefix is required")
-			}
-			if opts.SnapshotID == "" {
-				return fmt.Errorf("--snapshot is required")
-			}
-			if opts.TargetDir == "" {
-				return fmt.Errorf("--target is required")
-			}
-			return runRestore(cmd.Context(), opts)
-		},
-	}
-
-	cmd.Flags().StringVar(&opts.Bucket, "bucket", "", "S3 bucket name")
-	cmd.Flags().StringVar(&opts.Prefix, "prefix", "", "S3 prefix")
-	cmd.Flags().StringVar(&opts.SnapshotID, "snapshot", "", "Snapshot ID to restore")
-	cmd.Flags().StringVar(&opts.TargetDir, "target", "", "Target directory for restore")
-
-	return cmd
-}
-
-func runRestore(ctx context.Context, opts *RestoreOptions) error {
-	if os.Getenv("VAULTIK_PRIVATE_KEY") == "" {
-		return fmt.Errorf("VAULTIK_PRIVATE_KEY environment variable must be set")
-	}
-
-	app := fx.New(
-		fx.Supply(opts),
-		fx.Provide(globals.New),
-		// Additional modules will be added here
-		fx.Invoke(func(g *globals.Globals) error {
-			// TODO: Implement restore logic
-			fmt.Printf("Restoring snapshot %s to %s\n", opts.SnapshotID, opts.TargetDir)
-			return nil
-		}),
-		fx.NopLogger,
-	)
-
-	if err := app.Start(ctx); err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("failed to start restore: %w", err)
-	}
-	defer func() {
-		if err := app.Stop(ctx); err != nil {
-			fmt.Printf("error stopping app: %v\n", err)
-		}
-	}()
-
-	return nil
-}

internal/cli/root.go

@@ -1,29 +1,179 @@
 package cli
 
 import (
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"strings"
+
+	"github.com/adrg/xdg"
 	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/ui"
 )
 
-// NewRootCommand creates the root cobra command
+// errConfigNotFound is wrapped by all config-resolution failures.
+var errConfigNotFound = errors.New("config file not found")
+
+// RootFlags holds global flags that apply to all commands.
+// These flags are defined on the root command and inherited by all subcommands.
+type RootFlags struct {
+	ConfigPath string
+	Verbose    bool
+	Debug      bool
+	Quiet      bool
+	SkipErrors bool
+}
+
+//nolint:gochecknoglobals // cobra persistent flags bind to package state
+var rootFlags RootFlags
+
+// NewRootCommand creates the root cobra command for the vaultik CLI.
+// It sets up the command structure, global flags, and adds all subcommands.
+// This is the main entry point for the CLI command hierarchy.
 func NewRootCommand() *cobra.Command {
 	cmd := &cobra.Command{
 		Use:   "vaultik",
 		Short: "Secure incremental backup tool with asymmetric encryption",
-		Long: `vaultik is a secure incremental backup daemon that encrypts data using age
+		Long: `vaultik is an incremental backup tool that encrypts data to age public
-public keys and uploads to S3-compatible storage. No private keys are needed
+keys and uploads it to an S3-compatible object store, a local directory or
-on the source system.`,
+an rclone remote. The backed-up machine needs no private key: only
+'snapshot restore' and 'snapshot verify --deep' need one.`,
 		SilenceUsage: true,
+		// Bare 'vaultik' (no subcommand): print help. The banner is
+		// printed once at process startup by Entry, before cobra
+		// parses arguments, so it appears even when cobra rejects
+		// args (e.g. "requires at least 2 arg(s)") and on --help.
+		Run: func(cmd *cobra.Command, _ []string) {
+			_ = cmd.Help()
+		},
 	}
 
+	// Add global flags
+	cmd.PersistentFlags().StringVar(&rootFlags.ConfigPath, "config", "",
+		"Path to config file (default: $VAULTIK_CONFIG, then the platform "+
+			"config directory, then /etc/vaultik/config.yml)")
+	cmd.PersistentFlags().BoolVarP(&rootFlags.Verbose, "verbose", "v", false,
+		"Enable verbose output")
+	cmd.PersistentFlags().BoolVar(&rootFlags.Debug, "debug", false,
+		"Enable debug output")
+	cmd.PersistentFlags().BoolVarP(&rootFlags.Quiet, "quiet", "q", false,
+		"Suppress status output (warnings, errors, JSON documents, "+
+			"'config get' values and confirmation prompts are still printed)")
+	cmd.PersistentFlags().BoolVar(&rootFlags.SkipErrors, "skip-errors", false,
+		"Skip files that cannot be read when creating a snapshot, or "+
+			"that cannot be restored when restoring, instead of aborting "+
+			"(packing and storage errors while creating a snapshot still "+
+			"abort)")
+
 	// Add subcommands
 	cmd.AddCommand(
-		NewBackupCommand(),
+		NewConfigCommand(),
-		NewRestoreCommand(),
 		NewPruneCommand(),
-		NewVerifyCommand(),
+		NewSnapshotCommand(),
-		NewFetchCommand(),
+		NewInfoCommand(),
-		SnapshotCmd(),
+		NewVersionCommand(),
+		NewRemoteCommand(),
+		NewDatabaseCommand(),
 	)
 
+	// cobra adds the completion command only when Execute runs, and with
+	// no Run, so it skipped its own cobra.NoArgs and a mistyped shell name
+	// printed help and exited 0. Adding it here lets it have a Run. Its
+	// scripts go to os.Stdout as it is now: a later SetOut does not
+	// redirect them.
+	cmd.InitDefaultCompletionCmd()
+
+	for _, sub := range cmd.Commands() {
+		if sub.Name() == "completion" {
+			sub.Run = func(completion *cobra.Command, _ []string) {
+				_ = completion.Help()
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
 	return cmd
 }
+
+// GetRootFlags returns the global flags that were parsed from the command line.
+// This allows subcommands to access global flag values like verbosity and config path.
+func GetRootFlags() RootFlags {
+	return rootFlags
+}
+
+// commandUI returns a UI writer for a command's stdout, in quiet mode
+// when the global --quiet flag is set. This is how the pure-cli
+// commands (version, config, database) reach internal/ui: color follows
+// the writer (a TTY gets color, a captured test buffer does not), and
+// --quiet silences the same message classes it silences everywhere else.
+func commandUI(cmd *cobra.Command) *ui.Writer {
+	w := ui.New(cmd.OutOrStdout())
+	if GetRootFlags().Quiet {
+		w.SetQuiet(true)
+	}
+
+	return w
+}
+
+// ResolveConfigPath resolves the config file path from flags, environment, or default.
+// Search order: --config flag, VAULTIK_CONFIG env, XDG config dir,
+// /etc/vaultik/config.yml.
+// Explicit paths from --config and $VAULTIK_CONFIG are checked for existence
+// so the user gets a clear error instead of a downstream YAML parser failure.
+func ResolveConfigPath() (string, error) {
+	if path := rootFlags.ConfigPath; path != "" {
+		_, err := os.Stat(path)
+		if err != nil {
+			return "", fmt.Errorf(
+				"%w: from --config: %s (run 'vaultik config init --config %s' to create it)",
+				errConfigNotFound, path, path)
+		}
+
+		return path, nil
+	}
+
+	if path := os.Getenv("VAULTIK_CONFIG"); path != "" {
+		_, err := os.Stat(path) //nolint:gosec // G703: path is operator-supplied by design
+		if err != nil {
+			return "", fmt.Errorf(
+				"%w: from $VAULTIK_CONFIG: %s (unset VAULTIK_CONFIG, point it at "+
+					"an existing file, or run 'vaultik config init')",
+				errConfigNotFound, path)
+		}
+
+		return path, nil
+	}
+
+	for _, path := range defaultConfigPaths() {
+		_, err := os.Stat(path)
+		if err == nil {
+			return path, nil
+		}
+	}
+
+	return "", fmt.Errorf(
+		"%w: searched %s (run 'vaultik config init' to create the default "+
+			"config, or pass --config <path>)",
+		errConfigNotFound, strings.Join(defaultConfigPaths(), " or "))
+}
+
+// defaultConfigPaths returns the ordered list of config paths to search.
+// On macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/vaultik/config.yml
+// On Linux: ~/.config/vaultik/config.yml
+// Fallback: /etc/vaultik/config.yml
+func defaultConfigPaths() []string {
+	return []string{
+		filepath.Join(xdg.ConfigHome, "vaultik", "config.yml"),
+		"/etc/vaultik/config.yml",
+	}
+}
+
+// DefaultConfigPath returns the platform-appropriate default config path.
+// Used by the init command and in help text.
+func DefaultConfigPath() string {
+	if os.Getuid() == 0 {
+		return "/etc/vaultik/config.yml"
+	}
+
+	return filepath.Join(xdg.ConfigHome, "vaultik", "config.yml")
+}

internal/cli/runapp_interrupt_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,97 @@
+package cli_test
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+	"go.uber.org/fx"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/cli"
+)
+
+// TestRunAppWaitsForOperationCleanupOnShutdown drives RunApp with an fx app
+// wired the way RunOperation wires a command: a single lifecycle hook whose
+// OnStart launches the operation in its own goroutine and whose OnStop cancels
+// it and blocks until that goroutine returns. The operation stands in for a
+// restore blocked mid-download — it holds a decrypted "scratch" file and only
+// removes it as it unwinds on cancellation.
+//
+// The app is asked to stop once the operation is running (standing in for an
+// OS interrupt; fx delivers a real signal and Shutdowner.Shutdown() on the
+// same app.Wait channel, so both drive the identical shutdown path). RunApp
+// must not return until app.Stop has run the OnStop hook, so the scratch file
+// must be gone by the time RunApp returns. Before the fix RunApp returned as
+// soon as the app.Wait/Done channel fired, without running app.Stop, so the
+// cleanup never ran and this file would still be on disk (issue #159).
+func TestRunAppWaitsForOperationCleanupOnShutdown(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	scratch := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "decrypted-scratch")
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(scratch, []byte("secret"), 0o600))
+
+	// Cancel and reap the operation even if RunApp returns without doing so
+	// (the buggy path), so the goroutine cannot leak past the test.
+	opCtx, opCancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
+	t.Cleanup(opCancel)
+
+	var stop func(context.Context) bool
+
+	app := fx.New(
+		fx.NopLogger,
+		fx.Invoke(func(lc fx.Lifecycle, sh fx.Shutdowner) {
+			lc.Append(fx.Hook{
+				OnStart: func(_ context.Context) error {
+					done := make(chan struct{})
+
+					go func() {
+						defer close(done)
+
+						// Blocked mid-operation until cancelled, then run the
+						// cleanup an interrupted restore would run.
+						<-opCtx.Done()
+
+						_ = os.Remove(scratch)
+					}()
+
+					stop = func(ctx context.Context) bool {
+						opCancel()
+
+						select {
+						case <-done:
+							return true
+						case <-ctx.Done():
+							return false
+						}
+					}
+
+					// Ask the app to stop now that the operation is running.
+					go func() { _ = sh.Shutdown() }()
+
+					return nil
+				},
+				OnStop: func(ctx context.Context) error {
+					stop(ctx)
+
+					return nil
+				},
+			})
+		}),
+	)
+
+	done := make(chan error, 1)
+	go func() { done <- cli.RunApp(context.Background(), app) }()
+
+	select {
+	case err := <-done:
+		require.NoError(t, err)
+	case <-time.After(30 * time.Second):
+		t.Fatal("RunApp did not return after shutdown was requested")
+	}
+
+	_, err := os.Stat(scratch)
+	require.True(t, os.IsNotExist(err),
+		"RunApp returned before the operation removed its decrypted scratch file")
+}

internal/cli/snapshot.go

@@ -1,90 +1,371 @@
 package cli
 
 import (
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+
 	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/log"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/vaultik"
 )
 
-func SnapshotCmd() *cobra.Command {
+var (
-	cmd := &cobra.Command{
+	errSnapshotIDRequired  = errors.New("snapshot ID required")
-		Use:   "snapshot",
+	errWrongArgCount       = errors.New("wrong argument count")
-		Short: "Manage snapshots",
+	errPurgeCriteriaNeeded = errors.New(
-		Long:  "Commands for listing, removing, and querying snapshots",
+		"must specify either --keep-latest or --older-than")
+	errPurgeCriteriaBoth = errors.New(
+		"cannot specify both --keep-latest and --older-than")
+)
+
+// requireSnapshotIDArg validates that exactly one positional argument
+// (the snapshot ID) was supplied, printing help otherwise.
+func requireSnapshotIDArg(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
+	if len(args) != 1 {
+		_ = cmd.Help()
+
+		if len(args) == 0 {
+			return errSnapshotIDRequired
 		}
 
-	cmd.AddCommand(snapshotListCmd())
+		return fmt.Errorf("%w: expected 1 argument, got %d",
-	cmd.AddCommand(snapshotRmCmd())
+			errWrongArgCount, len(args))
-	cmd.AddCommand(snapshotLatestCmd())
+	}
+
+	return nil
+}
+
+// NewSnapshotCommand creates the snapshot command and subcommands
+func NewSnapshotCommand() *cobra.Command {
+	cmd := &cobra.Command{
+		Use:   "snapshot",
+		Short: "Snapshot management commands",
+		Long:  "Commands for creating, listing, and managing snapshots",
+		// cobra checks Args only on a command that has a Run: without
+		// one, a mistyped subcommand printed help and exited 0.
+		Args: cobra.NoArgs,
+		Run: func(cmd *cobra.Command, _ []string) {
+			_ = cmd.Help()
+		},
+	}
+
+	// Add subcommands
+	cmd.AddCommand(newSnapshotCreateCommand())
+	cmd.AddCommand(newSnapshotListCommand())
+	cmd.AddCommand(newSnapshotPurgeCommand())
+	cmd.AddCommand(newSnapshotVerifyCommand())
+	cmd.AddCommand(newSnapshotRemoveCommand())
+	cmd.AddCommand(newSnapshotRestoreCommand())
 
 	return cmd
 }
 
-func snapshotListCmd() *cobra.Command {
+// snapshotCreateLong is the long help text of 'snapshot create'.
-	var (
+const snapshotCreateLong = `Creates new snapshots of the configured directories.
-		bucket string
+
-		prefix string
+If snapshot names are provided, only those snapshots are created.
-		limit  int
+If no names are provided, all configured snapshots are created.
-	)
+
+Needs at least one public key in age_recipients, and permission to write
+objects at the backup destination store. It does not need the age private
+key. With --prune it also needs permission to list, read and delete objects
+there.
+
+The config is read from the path given by --config or VAULTIK_CONFIG;
+otherwise from the platform config directory (~/.config/vaultik/config.yml
+on Linux), then /etc/vaultik/config.yml.`
+
+// newSnapshotCreateCommand creates the 'snapshot create' subcommand
+func newSnapshotCreateCommand() *cobra.Command {
+	opts := &vaultik.SnapshotCreateOptions{}
+
+	cmd := &cobra.Command{
+		Use:   "create [snapshot-names...]",
+		Short: "Create new snapshots",
+		Long:  snapshotCreateLong,
+		Args:  cobra.ArbitraryArgs,
+		RunE: func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
+			err := opts.Validate()
+			if err != nil {
+				return err
+			}
+
+			// Pass snapshot names from args
+			opts.Snapshots = args
+			// --skip-errors is a global flag on the root command.
+			opts.SkipErrors = rootFlags.SkipErrors
+			// Use unified config resolution
+			configPath, err := ResolveConfigPath()
+			if err != nil {
+				return err
+			}
+
+			// Use the backup functionality from cli package
+			rootFlags := GetRootFlags()
+
+			// --cron suppression is wired through v.UI by setupGlobals.
+			return RunOperation(cmd.Context(), AppOptions{
+				ConfigPath: configPath,
+				LogOptions: log.Options{
+					Verbose: rootFlags.Verbose,
+					Debug:   rootFlags.Debug,
+					Cron:    opts.Cron,
+					Quiet:   rootFlags.Quiet,
+				},
+				Mode: mutating,
+			}, func(v *vaultik.Vaultik) error {
+				return v.CreateSnapshot(opts)
+			}, func(err error) {
+				if errors.Is(err, vaultik.ErrPostBackupPruneFailed) {
+					log.Error("Post-backup prune failed", "error", err)
+					ReportErrorf("Backup completed, but %v", err)
+
+					return
+				}
+
+				if errors.Is(err, vaultik.ErrFilesUnreadable) ||
+					errors.Is(err, vaultik.ErrSourcePathEmpty) ||
+					errors.Is(err, vaultik.ErrVolumeNotMounted) {
+					log.Error("Backup completed with an error", "error", err)
+					ReportErrorf("Backup completed, but %v", err)
+
+					return
+				}
+
+				log.Error("Snapshot creation failed", "error", err)
+				ReportErrorf("Snapshot creation failed: %v", err)
+			})
+		},
+	}
+
+	cmd.Flags().BoolVar(&opts.Cron, "cron", false,
+		"Run in cron mode (silent unless warning or error)")
+	cmd.Flags().BoolVar(&opts.Prune, "prune", false,
+		"After backup, drop older snapshots of the same name, remove "+
+			"orphaned blobs older than prune_grace_period, and delete each "+
+			"directory under metadata/ with no manifest once all its "+
+			"objects are older than prune_grace_period and its snapshot is "+
+			"not in the local index (not after a backup that skipped "+
+			"unreadable files, found a configured path empty, or did not "+
+			"find a mount point an earlier snapshot found)")
+	cmd.Flags().StringVar(&opts.KeepNewerThan, "keep-newer-than", "",
+		"With --prune: keep snapshots newer than this duration "+
+			"(e.g. 30d, 4w, 6mo, 1y; m is minutes, mo is months) "+
+			"instead of only the latest")
+
+	return cmd
+}
+
+// newSnapshotListCommand creates the 'snapshot list' subcommand
+func newSnapshotListCommand() *cobra.Command {
+	var jsonOutput bool
 
 	cmd := &cobra.Command{
 		Use:     "list",
-		Short: "List snapshots",
+		Aliases: []string{"ls"},
-		Long:  "List all snapshots in the bucket, sorted by timestamp",
+		Short:   "List all snapshots",
-		RunE: func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
+		Long: `Lists the snapshots in the local index and on the backup destination
-			panic("unimplemented")
+store, with their ID, timestamp, and sizes.
+
+Needs permission to list and read the destination store. It does not need
+the age private key. A snapshot found only on the destination store is
+listed by its remote key, because its ID is stored only in the local index
+and in the snapshot's encrypted database. If the destination store cannot
+be listed, the command warns and lists the local index alone.`,
+		Args: cobra.NoArgs,
+		RunE: func(cmd *cobra.Command, _ []string) error {
+			return runVaultikApp(cmd, readOnly, false,
+				"Failed to list snapshots",
+				func(v *vaultik.Vaultik) error {
+					return v.ListSnapshots(jsonOutput)
+				})
 		},
 	}
 
-	cmd.Flags().StringVar(&bucket, "bucket", "", "S3 bucket name")
+	cmd.Flags().BoolVar(&jsonOutput, "json", false, "Output in JSON format")
-	cmd.Flags().StringVar(&prefix, "prefix", "", "S3 prefix")
-	cmd.Flags().IntVar(&limit, "limit", 10, "Maximum number of snapshots to list")
-	cmd.MarkFlagRequired("bucket")
 
 	return cmd
 }
 
-func snapshotRmCmd() *cobra.Command {
+// newSnapshotPurgeCommand creates the 'snapshot purge' subcommand
-	var (
+func newSnapshotPurgeCommand() *cobra.Command {
-		bucket   string
+	opts := &vaultik.SnapshotPurgeOptions{}
-		prefix   string
-		snapshot string
-	)
 
 	cmd := &cobra.Command{
-		Use:   "rm",
+		Use:   "purge",
-		Short: "Remove a snapshot",
+		Short: "Purge old snapshots",
-		Long:  "Remove a snapshot and optionally its associated blobs",
+		Long: `Removes snapshots based on age or count criteria. Exactly one of
-		RunE: func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
+--keep-latest and --older-than is required.
-			panic("unimplemented")
+
+Retention is per-snapshot-name: --keep-latest keeps the latest snapshot of
+each name, not the latest globally. Use --snapshot to restrict the
+operation to specific snapshot names.
+
+Only snapshots in the local index are removed. Each one is removed from
+the local index and its metadata is deleted from the backup destination
+store. Blobs are not touched: run 'vaultik prune' afterwards.
+
+Needs permission to list and delete objects on the destination store. If
+the destination store cannot be listed, nothing is removed.`,
+		Args: cobra.NoArgs,
+		RunE: func(cmd *cobra.Command, _ []string) error {
+			// Validate flags
+			if !opts.KeepLatest && opts.OlderThan == "" {
+				return errPurgeCriteriaNeeded
+			}
+
+			if opts.KeepLatest && opts.OlderThan != "" {
+				return errPurgeCriteriaBoth
+			}
+
+			return runVaultikApp(cmd, mutating, false,
+				"Failed to purge snapshots",
+				func(v *vaultik.Vaultik) error {
+					return v.PurgeSnapshotsWithOptions(opts)
+				})
 		},
 	}
 
-	cmd.Flags().StringVar(&bucket, "bucket", "", "S3 bucket name")
+	cmd.Flags().BoolVar(&opts.KeepLatest, "keep-latest", false,
-	cmd.Flags().StringVar(&prefix, "prefix", "", "S3 prefix")
+		"Keep only the latest snapshot of each name")
-	cmd.Flags().StringVar(&snapshot, "snapshot", "", "Snapshot ID to remove")
+	cmd.Flags().StringVar(&opts.OlderThan, "older-than", "",
-	cmd.MarkFlagRequired("bucket")
+		"Remove snapshots older than duration "+
-	cmd.MarkFlagRequired("snapshot")
+			"(e.g. 30d, 4w, 6mo, 1y; m is minutes, mo is months)")
+	cmd.Flags().BoolVar(&opts.Force, "force", false, "Skip confirmation prompt")
+	cmd.Flags().StringArrayVar(&opts.Names, "snapshot", nil,
+		"Restrict to snapshots with these names (repeat for multiple)")
 
 	return cmd
 }
 
-func snapshotLatestCmd() *cobra.Command {
+// newSnapshotVerifyCommand creates the 'snapshot verify' subcommand
-	var (
+func newSnapshotVerifyCommand() *cobra.Command {
-		bucket string
+	opts := &vaultik.VerifyOptions{}
-		prefix string
-	)
 
 	cmd := &cobra.Command{
-		Use:   "latest",
+		Use:   "verify <snapshot-id>",
-		Short: "Get the latest snapshot ID",
+		Short: "Check a snapshot's blobs are present with the listed size",
-		Long:  "Display the ID of the most recent snapshot",
+		Long: `Checks that every blob the snapshot's manifest lists is present
+in storage with the size the manifest records, and that the
+snapshot's encrypted database is present. It does not read blob
+contents and does not need the age private key.
+
+Needs permission to read the backup destination store, and to list it
+when a remote key is given.
+
+Use --deep to download, decrypt, and re-hash every blob to detect
+corruption -- integrity, not who wrote it.
+
+--deep requires the age private key, in the VAULTIK_AGE_SECRET_KEY
+environment variable or as age_secret_key in the config file; the
+environment variable wins. The variable may hold the whole age-keygen
+file, with its comments and all of its keys. Read the key from the
+file rather than typing it, so that it does not land in your shell
+history:
+
+  export VAULTIK_AGE_SECRET_KEY="$(cat vaultik_backup_private_key.txt)"
+
+The snapshot may be named by its ID or, on a host with no local
+index, by the remote key that 'snapshot list' prints for a
+remote-only snapshot (an unambiguous leading part is enough).`,
+		Args: requireSnapshotIDArg,
 		RunE: func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
-			panic("unimplemented")
+			snapshotID := args[0]
+
+			// Use unified config resolution
+			configPath, err := ResolveConfigPath()
+			if err != nil {
+				return err
+			}
+
+			rootFlags := GetRootFlags()
+
+			return RunOperation(cmd.Context(), AppOptions{
+				ConfigPath: configPath,
+				LogOptions: log.Options{
+					Verbose: rootFlags.Verbose,
+					Debug:   rootFlags.Debug,
+					Quiet:   rootFlags.Quiet,
+					JSON:    opts.JSON,
+				},
+				Mode: readOnly,
+			}, func(v *vaultik.Vaultik) error {
+				return v.VerifySnapshotWithOptions(snapshotID, opts)
+			}, func(err error) {
+				if opts.JSON {
+					return
+				}
+
+				log.Error("Verification failed", "error", err)
+				ReportErrorf("Verification failed: %v", err)
+			})
 		},
 	}
 
-	cmd.Flags().StringVar(&bucket, "bucket", "", "S3 bucket name")
+	cmd.Flags().BoolVar(&opts.Deep, "deep", false,
-	cmd.Flags().StringVar(&prefix, "prefix", "", "S3 prefix")
+		"Download, decrypt and re-hash every blob; requires the age private "+
-	cmd.MarkFlagRequired("bucket")
+			"key in VAULTIK_AGE_SECRET_KEY, or as age_secret_key in the config "+
+			"file")
+	cmd.Flags().BoolVar(&opts.JSON, "json", false, "Output verification results as JSON")
+
+	return cmd
+}
+
+// newSnapshotRemoveCommand creates the 'snapshot remove' subcommand
+func newSnapshotRemoveCommand() *cobra.Command {
+	opts := &vaultik.RemoveOptions{}
+
+	cmd := &cobra.Command{
+		Use:     "remove <snapshot-id>",
+		Aliases: []string{"rm"},
+		Short:   "Remove a snapshot from local index and remote metadata",
+		Long: `Removes a snapshot.
+
+By default, this removes the snapshot from the local index database and
+strips the snapshot's metadata from the backup destination store. Blobs
+are NOT touched: deleting them requires reading every remaining remote
+manifest (the destination store may hold snapshots this host doesn't
+know about), which is what 'vaultik prune' does. The command prints the
+'vaultik prune' invocation to run as a follow-up only when it removed the
+snapshot's metadata from the destination store, and never under --json.
+
+The argument must be a snapshot ID: a remote key is not accepted. An ID
+that names no snapshot in the local index or on the destination store is
+an error. Needs permission to list and delete objects on the destination
+store, unless --local-only is given.
+
+Use --local-only to skip the remote half (e.g. when you want to forget a
+snapshot locally without touching the destination store); the snapshot
+must then be in the local index.
+
+If removing the snapshot's metadata from the destination store fails (for
+example because the remote is unreachable), the local-database removal
+still completes and a warning is emitted; run 'vaultik snapshot remove
+<snapshot-id>' again once the destination store is reachable to remove
+the snapshot's metadata from it ('vaultik prune' does not). For a
+snapshot that is only on the destination store, that failure is an error.
+
+To wipe the entire destination store and start over, use 'vaultik remote
+nuke --force' — it is the single supported entry point for that.`,
+		Args: requireSnapshotIDArg,
+		RunE: func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
+			return runVaultikApp(cmd, mutating, opts.JSON,
+				"Failed to remove snapshot",
+				func(v *vaultik.Vaultik) error {
+					_, err := v.RemoveSnapshot(args[0], opts)
+
+					return err
+				})
+		},
+	}
+
+	cmd.Flags().BoolVarP(&opts.Force, "force", "f", false, "Skip confirmation prompt")
+	cmd.Flags().BoolVar(&opts.DryRun, "dry-run", false,
+		"Show what would be removed without removing")
+	cmd.Flags().BoolVar(&opts.JSON, "json", false,
+		"Output result as JSON; skips the confirmation prompt, as --force does")
+	cmd.Flags().BoolVar(&opts.LocalOnly, "local-only", false,
+		"Skip remote cleanup; only touch the local index")
 
 	return cmd
 }

internal/cli/snapshot_restore.go

@@ -0,0 +1,118 @@
+package cli
+
+import (
+	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/log"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/vaultik"
+)
+
+// restoreMinArgs is the minimum positional argument count of
+// `snapshot restore <snapshot-id> <target-dir> [paths...]`.
+const restoreMinArgs = 2
+
+// RestoreOptions contains options for the restore command
+type RestoreOptions struct {
+	TargetDir string
+	Paths     []string // Optional paths to restore (empty = all)
+	Verify    bool     // Verify restored files after restore
+}
+
+// newSnapshotRestoreCommand creates the 'snapshot restore' subcommand
+func newSnapshotRestoreCommand() *cobra.Command {
+	opts := &RestoreOptions{}
+
+	cmd := &cobra.Command{
+		Use:   "restore <snapshot-id> <target-dir> [paths...]",
+		Short: "Restore files from a snapshot",
+		Long: `Download and decrypt files from a backup snapshot.
+
+This command will restore files from the specified snapshot to the
+target directory.
+If no paths are specified, all files are restored.
+If paths are specified, only matching files/directories are restored.
+A path that matches nothing in the snapshot is named in a warning, and
+the command exits non-zero after restoring the paths that match.
+
+The snapshot may be named by its ID or, when restoring on a host with no
+local index, by the remote key that 'snapshot list' prints for a
+remote-only snapshot (an unambiguous leading part is enough).
+
+Each file is restored under its original absolute path inside the target
+directory. File owners are restored only when the command runs as root.
+
+Requires the age private key, in the VAULTIK_AGE_SECRET_KEY environment
+variable or as age_secret_key in the config file; the environment
+variable wins. The variable may hold the whole age-keygen file, with its
+comments and all of its keys. Read the key from the file rather than
+typing it, so that it does not land in your shell history:
+
+  export VAULTIK_AGE_SECRET_KEY="$(cat vaultik_backup_private_key.txt)"
+
+Also needs permission to read the backup destination store (and to list
+it when a remote key is given), and free space in the temporary directory
+for the decrypted blobs.
+
+Examples:
+  # Restore entire snapshot
+  vaultik snapshot restore myhost_docs_2025-01-01T12:00:00Z /restore
+
+  # Restore specific file
+  vaultik snapshot restore myhost_docs_2025-01-01T12:00:00Z /restore \
+    /home/user/important.txt
+
+  # Restore specific directory
+  vaultik snapshot restore myhost_docs_2025-01-01T12:00:00Z /restore \
+    /home/user/documents/
+
+  # Restore and verify all files
+  vaultik snapshot restore --verify myhost_docs_2025-01-01T12:00:00Z /restore`,
+		Args: cobra.MinimumNArgs(restoreMinArgs),
+		RunE: func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
+			return runRestore(cmd, args, opts)
+		},
+	}
+
+	cmd.Flags().BoolVar(&opts.Verify, "verify", false,
+		"Verify restored files by checking chunk hashes")
+
+	return cmd
+}
+
+// runRestore parses arguments and runs the restore operation through the
+// app framework.
+func runRestore(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string, opts *RestoreOptions) error {
+	snapshotID := args[0]
+
+	opts.TargetDir = args[1]
+	if len(args) > restoreMinArgs {
+		opts.Paths = args[restoreMinArgs:]
+	}
+
+	configPath, err := ResolveConfigPath()
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	rootFlags := GetRootFlags()
+
+	return RunOperation(cmd.Context(), AppOptions{
+		ConfigPath: configPath,
+		LogOptions: log.Options{
+			Verbose: rootFlags.Verbose,
+			Debug:   rootFlags.Debug,
+			Quiet:   rootFlags.Quiet,
+		},
+		Mode: readOnly,
+	}, func(v *vaultik.Vaultik) error {
+		return v.Restore(&vaultik.RestoreOptions{
+			SnapshotID: snapshotID,
+			TargetDir:  opts.TargetDir,
+			Paths:      opts.Paths,
+			Verify:     opts.Verify,
+			SkipErrors: rootFlags.SkipErrors,
+		})
+	}, func(err error) {
+		log.Error("Restore operation failed", "error", err)
+		ReportErrorf("Restore failed: %v", err)
+	})
+}

internal/cli/snapshot_restore_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+package cli //nolint:testpackage // exercises the unexported command constructor
+
+import (
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/spf13/pflag"
+)
+
+// TestRestoreCommandDoesNotTakeKeyAsArgument guards the fix for the age
+// key being echoed on the command line: restore must take the key only
+// from the environment, never as a flag value, and its help must show the
+// file-based form rather than a literal key that would land in shell
+// history.
+func TestRestoreCommandDoesNotTakeKeyAsArgument(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	cmd := newSnapshotRestoreCommand()
+
+	cmd.Flags().VisitAll(func(f *pflag.Flag) {
+		lower := strings.ToLower(f.Name)
+		for _, banned := range []string{"key", "secret", "age", "identity"} {
+			if strings.Contains(lower, banned) {
+				t.Errorf("restore must not accept the key as a flag; found --%s", f.Name)
+			}
+		}
+	})
+
+	help := cmd.Long
+	if strings.Contains(help, "AGE-SECRET-KEY-") {
+		t.Error("restore help must not show a literal age private key to type")
+	}
+
+	if !strings.Contains(help, "$(cat ") {
+		t.Error("restore help should read the key from a file, e.g. $(cat ...)")
+	}
+}

internal/cli/verify.go

@@ -1,86 +0,0 @@
-package cli
-
-import (
-	"context"
-	"fmt"
-	"os"
-
-	"git.eeqj.de/sneak/vaultik/internal/globals"
-	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
-	"go.uber.org/fx"
-)
-
-// VerifyOptions contains options for the verify command
-type VerifyOptions struct {
-	Bucket     string
-	Prefix     string
-	SnapshotID string
-	Quick      bool
-}
-
-// NewVerifyCommand creates the verify command
-func NewVerifyCommand() *cobra.Command {
-	opts := &VerifyOptions{}
-
-	cmd := &cobra.Command{
-		Use:   "verify",
-		Short: "Verify backup integrity",
-		Long:  `Check that all referenced blobs exist and verify metadata integrity`,
-		Args:  cobra.NoArgs,
-		RunE: func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
-			// Validate required flags
-			if opts.Bucket == "" {
-				return fmt.Errorf("--bucket is required")
-			}
-			if opts.Prefix == "" {
-				return fmt.Errorf("--prefix is required")
-			}
-			return runVerify(cmd.Context(), opts)
-		},
-	}
-
-	cmd.Flags().StringVar(&opts.Bucket, "bucket", "", "S3 bucket name")
-	cmd.Flags().StringVar(&opts.Prefix, "prefix", "", "S3 prefix")
-	cmd.Flags().StringVar(&opts.SnapshotID, "snapshot", "", "Snapshot ID to verify (optional, defaults to latest)")
-	cmd.Flags().BoolVar(&opts.Quick, "quick", false, "Perform quick verification by checking blob existence and S3 content hashes without downloading")
-
-	return cmd
-}
-
-func runVerify(ctx context.Context, opts *VerifyOptions) error {
-	if os.Getenv("VAULTIK_PRIVATE_KEY") == "" {
-		return fmt.Errorf("VAULTIK_PRIVATE_KEY environment variable must be set")
-	}
-
-	app := fx.New(
-		fx.Supply(opts),
-		fx.Provide(globals.New),
-		// Additional modules will be added here
-		fx.Invoke(func(g *globals.Globals) error {
-			// TODO: Implement verify logic
-			if opts.SnapshotID == "" {
-				fmt.Printf("Verifying latest snapshot in bucket %s with prefix %s\n", opts.Bucket, opts.Prefix)
-			} else {
-				fmt.Printf("Verifying snapshot %s in bucket %s with prefix %s\n", opts.SnapshotID, opts.Bucket, opts.Prefix)
-			}
-			if opts.Quick {
-				fmt.Println("Performing quick verification")
-			} else {
-				fmt.Println("Performing deep verification")
-			}
-			return nil
-		}),
-		fx.NopLogger,
-	)
-
-	if err := app.Start(ctx); err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("failed to start verify: %w", err)
-	}
-	defer func() {
-		if err := app.Stop(ctx); err != nil {
-			fmt.Printf("error stopping app: %v\n", err)
-		}
-	}()
-
-	return nil
-}

internal/cli/version.go

@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+package cli
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"runtime"
+
+	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/globals"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/ui"
+)
+
+// NewVersionCommand creates the version command
+func NewVersionCommand() *cobra.Command {
+	cmd := &cobra.Command{
+		Use:   "version",
+		Short: "Print version information",
+		Long:  `Print version, git commit, and build information for vaultik.`,
+		Args:  cobra.NoArgs,
+		Run: func(cmd *cobra.Command, _ []string) {
+			writeVersion(commandUI(cmd))
+		},
+	}
+
+	return cmd
+}
+
+// writeVersion prints the version report through the UI writer. The
+// report is the output this command exists to produce, so it is written
+// plain (markers would corrupt the aligned report) via the writer's
+// underlying stdout; --quiet silences it like any other non-error
+// output.
+func writeVersion(out *ui.Writer) {
+	if out.Quiet() {
+		return
+	}
+
+	w := out.Out()
+
+	_, _ = fmt.Fprintf(w, "vaultik %s\n", globals.Version)
+	_, _ = fmt.Fprintf(w, "  commit:     %s\n", globals.Commit)
+	_, _ = fmt.Fprintf(w, "  build date: %s\n", globals.CommitDate)
+	_, _ = fmt.Fprintf(w, "  go:         %s\n", runtime.Version())
+	_, _ = fmt.Fprintf(w, "  os/arch:    %s/%s\n", runtime.GOOS, runtime.GOARCH)
+	_, _ = fmt.Fprintf(w, "  author:     %s\n", globals.Author)
+	_, _ = fmt.Fprintf(w, "  homepage:   %s\n", globals.Homepage)
+	_, _ = fmt.Fprintf(w, "  license:    %s\n", globals.License)
+
+	if globals.IsDevVersion(globals.Version) {
+		_, _ = fmt.Fprintln(w)
+		_, _ = fmt.Fprintln(w,
+			"This is a development build: it was not built from a tagged")
+		_, _ = fmt.Fprintln(w,
+			"commit, so it carries no release version. Released binaries")
+		_, _ = fmt.Fprintf(w,
+			"are published at %s\n", globals.ReleasesURL)
+		_, _ = fmt.Fprintln(w,
+			"and report their tag on the first line above.")
+	}
+}

internal/cli/version_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+package cli_test
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/cli"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/globals"
+)
+
+// runVersionCommand executes `vaultik version` with its output
+// captured, and returns what it printed.
+func runVersionCommand(t *testing.T) string {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	cmd := cli.NewVersionCommand()
+
+	var out bytes.Buffer
+
+	cmd.SetOut(&out)
+	cmd.SetErr(&out)
+	cmd.SetArgs([]string{})
+
+	err := cmd.Execute()
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("version command failed: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	return out.String()
+}
+
+// TestVersionCommandReportsBuildVersion checks that the first line of
+// the report is the version the binary was actually built with. The
+// test binary carries no -ldflags, so that is the "dev" default -- the
+// same string an untagged `make vaultik` build stamps a prefix of.
+//
+//nolint:paralleltest // executes a command that reads the global rootFlags
+func TestVersionCommandReportsBuildVersion(t *testing.T) {
+	out := runVersionCommand(t)
+
+	wantFirst := "vaultik " + globals.Version
+	if first, _, _ := strings.Cut(out, "\n"); first != wantFirst {
+		t.Errorf("first line = %q, want %q", first, wantFirst)
+	}
+
+	if !strings.Contains(out, "commit:") {
+		t.Error("output does not report the commit")
+	}
+}
+
+// TestVersionCommandFlagsDevelopmentBuild is the regression test for
+// the thing this command exists to prevent: a build that is not a
+// release must say so. The notice used to be gated on the version
+// being exactly "dev", so once untagged builds started carrying their
+// commit sha it would have gone silent and an unreleased binary would
+// have looked like a release.
+//
+//nolint:paralleltest // executes a command that reads the global rootFlags
+func TestVersionCommandFlagsDevelopmentBuild(t *testing.T) {
+	if !globals.IsDevVersion(globals.Version) {
+		t.Skipf("test binary was stamped with release version %q",
+			globals.Version)
+	}
+
+	out := runVersionCommand(t)
+
+	if !strings.Contains(out, "development build") {
+		t.Errorf("dev build did not print the development-build notice:\n%s",
+			out)
+	}
+
+	if !strings.Contains(out, globals.ReleasesURL) {
+		t.Errorf("development-build notice does not point at %s:\n%s",
+			globals.ReleasesURL, out)
+	}
+}

internal/config/config.go

@@ -1,32 +1,220 @@
+// Package config loads, validates, and provides the vaultik YAML
+// configuration, including snapshot definitions, encryption recipients,
+// and storage settings.
 package config
 
 import (
+	"bytes"
+	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"sort"
+	"strings"
 	"time"
 
+	"filippo.io/age"
+	"git.eeqj.de/sneak/smartconfig"
+	"github.com/adrg/xdg"
 	"go.uber.org/fx"
 	"gopkg.in/yaml.v3"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/chunker"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/log"
 )
 
-// Config represents the application configuration
+const appName = "vaultik"
-type Config struct {
+
-	AgeRecipient      string        `yaml:"age_recipient"`
+// secretKeyPrefix marks an age secret (private) key. It is compared
-	BackupInterval    time.Duration `yaml:"backup_interval"`
+// case-insensitively so a recipient entry that is actually a private key is
-	BlobSizeLimit     int64         `yaml:"blob_size_limit"`
+// caught and never passed to age or echoed back.
-	ChunkSize         int64         `yaml:"chunk_size"`
+//
-	Exclude           []string      `yaml:"exclude"`
+//nolint:gosec // G101: marker for detecting a pasted secret key, not a credential
-	FullScanInterval  time.Duration `yaml:"full_scan_interval"`
+const secretKeyPrefix = "AGE-SECRET-KEY-"
-	Hostname          string        `yaml:"hostname"`
+
-	IndexPath         string        `yaml:"index_path"`
+// Defaults and validation bounds for tunable settings. MB and GB are
-	IndexPrefix       string        `yaml:"index_prefix"`
+// 1000-based, as the size parser reads them; the S3 part sizes are S3's own
-	MinTimeBetweenRun time.Duration `yaml:"min_time_between_run"`
+// limits, which are 1024-based (MiB, GiB).
-	S3                S3Config      `yaml:"s3"`
+const (
-	SourceDirs        []string      `yaml:"source_dirs"`
+	defaultBlobSizeLimit    = Size(10 * 1000 * 1000 * 1000) // 10GB
-	CompressionLevel  int           `yaml:"compression_level"`
+	defaultChunkSize        = Size(10 * 1000 * 1000)        // 10MB
+	defaultS3PartSize       = Size(5 * 1024 * 1024)         // 5MiB
+	defaultCompressionLevel = 3
+	defaultPruneGracePeriod = 24 * time.Hour
+	minChunkSize            = 1000 * 1000 // 1MB
+	minCompressionLevel     = 1
+	maxCompressionLevel     = 19
+	// S3 accepts a multipart upload part from 5MiB to 5GiB.
+	minS3PartSize = 5 * 1024 * 1024
+	maxS3PartSize = 5 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024
+)
+
+// Sentinel validation errors.
+var (
+	errNoConfigPath         = errors.New("config path not provided")
+	errRecipientIsSecretKey = errors.New(
+		"an age secret key was given where a public key (age1...) belongs")
+	errRecipientNotX25519 = errors.New(
+		"not a valid recipient; only X25519 age1... public keys are supported")
+	errNoSnapshots = errors.New(
+		"at least one snapshot must be configured (see config.example.yml)")
+	errSnapshotNoPaths   = errors.New("snapshot must have at least one path")
+	errChunkSizeTooSmall = errors.New("chunk_size must be at least 1MB")
+	errBlobSizeTooSmall  = errors.New(
+		"blob_size_limit must be at least the largest chunk the chunker can " +
+			"emit (chunk_size times the FastCDC size spread)")
+	errBadCompression   = errors.New("compression_level must be between 1 and 19")
+	errBadS3PartSize    = errors.New("s3.part_size must be between 5MiB and 5GiB")
+	errBadStorageScheme = errors.New(
+		"storage_url must start with s3://, file://, or rclone://")
+	errFileURLNotAbsolute = errors.New(
+		"a file:// storage_url needs an absolute path, " +
+			"as in file:///path/to/backup")
+	errNegativePruneGracePeriod = errors.New(
+		"prune_grace_period must not be negative")
+	errStorageNotConfigured = errors.New(
+		"storage not configured; set storage_url or provide s3.endpoint + " +
+			"s3.bucket + credentials")
+	errS3BucketRequired = errors.New("s3.bucket is required (or set storage_url)")
+	errS3KeyIDRequired  = errors.New("s3.access_key_id is required")
+	errS3SecretRequired = errors.New("s3.secret_access_key is required")
+)
+
+// expandTilde expands ~ at the start of a path to the user's home directory.
+func expandTilde(path string) string {
+	if path == "~" {
+		home, _ := os.UserHomeDir()
+
+		return home
 	}
 
-// S3Config represents S3 storage configuration
+	if strings.HasPrefix(path, "~/") {
+		home, _ := os.UserHomeDir()
+
+		return filepath.Join(home, path[2:])
+	}
+
+	return path
+}
+
+// expandTildeInURL expands ~ in file:// URLs.
+func expandTildeInURL(url string) string {
+	if strings.HasPrefix(url, "file://~/") {
+		home, _ := os.UserHomeDir()
+
+		return "file://" + filepath.Join(home, url[9:])
+	}
+
+	return url
+}
+
+// SnapshotConfig represents configuration for a named snapshot.
+// Each snapshot backs up one or more paths and can have its own exclude patterns
+// in addition to the global excludes.
+type SnapshotConfig struct {
+	Paths   []string `yaml:"paths"`
+	Exclude []string `yaml:"exclude"` // Additional excludes for this snapshot
+}
+
+// GetExcludes returns the combined exclude patterns for a named snapshot.
+// It merges global excludes with the snapshot-specific excludes.
+func (c *Config) GetExcludes(snapshotName string) []string {
+	snap, ok := c.Snapshots[snapshotName]
+	if !ok {
+		return c.Exclude
+	}
+
+	if len(snap.Exclude) == 0 {
+		return c.Exclude
+	}
+
+	// Combine global and snapshot-specific excludes
+	combined := make([]string, 0, len(c.Exclude)+len(snap.Exclude))
+	combined = append(combined, c.Exclude...)
+	combined = append(combined, snap.Exclude...)
+
+	return combined
+}
+
+// SnapshotNames returns the names of all configured snapshots in sorted order.
+func (c *Config) SnapshotNames() []string {
+	names := make([]string, 0, len(c.Snapshots))
+	for name := range c.Snapshots {
+		names = append(names, name)
+	}
+	// Sort for deterministic order
+	sort.Strings(names)
+
+	return names
+}
+
+// Names of the two places the age secret key can be configured, used by
+// AgeSecretKeySourceName for error messages that must not echo the value.
+//
+//nolint:gosec // G101: these are the names of the config sources, not a key
+const (
+	ageSecretKeySourceEnv    = "VAULTIK_AGE_SECRET_KEY"
+	ageSecretKeySourceConfig = "age_secret_key"
+)
+
+// AgeSecretKeySourceName returns the human name of where AgeSecretKey was
+// configured. A Config built directly (as in tests) has no recorded
+// source, so it reports the config-file field name.
+func (c *Config) AgeSecretKeySourceName() string {
+	if c.AgeSecretKeySource != "" {
+		return c.AgeSecretKeySource
+	}
+
+	return ageSecretKeySourceConfig
+}
+
+// Config represents the application configuration for Vaultik.
+// It defines all settings for backup operations, including source directories,
+// encryption recipients, storage configuration, and performance tuning parameters.
+// Configuration is typically loaded from a YAML file.
+//
+//nolint:tagliatelle // snake_case is the established config-file format
+type Config struct {
+	AgeRecipients []string `yaml:"age_recipients"`
+	AgeSecretKey  string   `yaml:"age_secret_key"`
+	// AgeSecretKeySource names where AgeSecretKey was configured
+	// ("VAULTIK_AGE_SECRET_KEY" or "age_secret_key") so a later parse
+	// failure can name the source without echoing the secret value. It is
+	// set by Load and never read from or written to the config file.
+	AgeSecretKeySource string `yaml:"-"`
+	BlobSizeLimit      Size   `yaml:"blob_size_limit"`
+	ChunkSize          Size   `yaml:"chunk_size"`
+	// Exclude holds global excludes applied to all snapshots.
+	Exclude          []string                  `yaml:"exclude"`
+	Hostname         string                    `yaml:"hostname"`
+	IndexPath        string                    `yaml:"index_path"`
+	S3               S3Config                  `yaml:"s3"`
+	Snapshots        map[string]SnapshotConfig `yaml:"snapshots"`
+	CompressionLevel int                       `yaml:"compression_level"`
+
+	// PruneGracePeriod is how old a blob no manifest lists must be before
+	// a prune deletes it, and how old every object in a directory under
+	// metadata/ with no manifest must be before a prune deletes that
+	// directory. A backup writes its manifest only once it has uploaded
+	// all its blobs and its db.zst.age, so a younger blob or directory may
+	// belong to a backup still running, on this host or another sharing
+	// the destination store.
+	PruneGracePeriod time.Duration `yaml:"prune_grace_period"`
+
+	// StorageURL specifies the storage backend using a URL format.
+	// Takes precedence over S3Config if set.
+	// Supported formats:
+	//   - s3://bucket/prefix?endpoint=host&region=us-east-1
+	//   - file:///path/to/backup
+	// For S3 URLs, credentials are still read from s3.access_key_id
+	// and s3.secret_access_key.
+	StorageURL string `yaml:"storage_url"`
+}
+
+// S3Config represents S3 storage configuration for backup storage.
+// It supports both AWS S3 and S3-compatible storage services.
+// All fields except UseSSL and PartSize are required.
+//
+//nolint:tagliatelle // snake_case is the established config-file format
 type S3Config struct {
 	Endpoint        string `yaml:"endpoint"`
 	Bucket          string `yaml:"bucket"`
@@ -34,17 +222,23 @@ type S3Config struct {
 	AccessKeyID     string `yaml:"access_key_id"`
 	SecretAccessKey string `yaml:"secret_access_key"`
 	Region          string `yaml:"region"`
-	UseSSL          bool   `yaml:"use_ssl"`
+	// UseSSL selects HTTPS for a scheme-less endpoint. Omitted (nil) means
-	PartSize        int64  `yaml:"part_size"`
+	// the default, TLS; set it to false only to force plain HTTP.
+	UseSSL   *bool `yaml:"use_ssl"`
+	PartSize Size  `yaml:"part_size"`
 }
 
-// ConfigPath wraps the config file path for fx injection
+// Path wraps the config file path for fx dependency injection.
-type ConfigPath string
+// This type allows the config file path to be injected as a distinct type
+// rather than a plain string, avoiding conflicts with other string dependencies.
+type Path string
 
-// New creates a new Config instance
+// New creates a new Config instance by loading from the specified path.
-func New(path ConfigPath) (*Config, error) {
+// This function is used by the fx dependency injection framework.
+// Returns an error if the path is empty or if loading fails.
+func New(path Path) (*Config, error) {
 	if path == "" {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("config path not provided")
+		return nil, errNoConfigPath
 	}
 
 	cfg, err := Load(string(path))
@@ -55,40 +249,102 @@ func New(path ConfigPath) (*Config, error) {
 	return cfg, nil
 }
 
-// Load reads and parses the configuration file
+// Load reads the configuration file at path, parses it with Parse, warns
+// when others can read the file, and validates the configuration.
+// Returns an error if the file cannot be read, parsed, or if validation
+// fails.
 func Load(path string) (*Config, error) {
-	data, err := os.ReadFile(path)
+	data, err := os.ReadFile(path) //nolint:gosec // G304: config path is operator-supplied
 	if err != nil {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to read config file: %w", err)
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to load config file: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	cfg, err := Parse(data)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	// Check config file permissions (warn if world or group readable)
+	//nolint:gosec // G703: config path is operator-supplied by design
+	info, statErr := os.Stat(path)
+	if statErr == nil {
+		mode := info.Mode().Perm()
+		if mode&0044 != 0 { // group or world readable
+			log.Warn(cfg.readableByOthersWarning(),
+				"path", path,
+				"mode", fmt.Sprintf("%04o", mode),
+				"recommendation", "chmod 600 "+path)
+		}
+	}
+
+	err = cfg.Validate()
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("invalid config: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	return cfg, nil
+}
+
+// Parse reads YAML config data as Load does, without validating it. It
+// applies default values for optional fields, fills in ${...} references
+// using smartconfig, and expands ~ in paths.
+func Parse(data []byte) (*Config, error) {
+	// Load config using smartconfig for interpolation
+	sc, err := smartconfig.NewFromReader(bytes.NewReader(data))
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to load config file: %w", err)
 	}
 
 	cfg := &Config{
 		// Set defaults
-		BlobSizeLimit:     10 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024, // 10GB
+		BlobSizeLimit:    defaultBlobSizeLimit,
-		ChunkSize:         10 * 1024 * 1024,        // 10MB
+		ChunkSize:        defaultChunkSize,
-		BackupInterval:    1 * time.Hour,
+		IndexPath:        filepath.Join(xdg.DataHome, appName, "index.sqlite"),
-		FullScanInterval:  24 * time.Hour,
+		CompressionLevel: defaultCompressionLevel,
-		MinTimeBetweenRun: 15 * time.Minute,
+		PruneGracePeriod: defaultPruneGracePeriod,
-		IndexPath:         "/var/lib/vaultik/index.sqlite",
+		S3:               S3Config{PartSize: defaultS3PartSize},
-		IndexPrefix:       "index/",
-		CompressionLevel:  3,
 	}
 
-	if err := yaml.Unmarshal(data, cfg); err != nil {
+	// Convert smartconfig data to YAML then unmarshal
+	configData := sc.Data()
+
+	yamlBytes, err := yaml.Marshal(configData)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to marshal config data: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	err = yaml.Unmarshal(yamlBytes, cfg)
+	if err != nil {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to parse config: %w", err)
 	}
 
+	// Expand tilde in all path fields
+	cfg.IndexPath = expandTilde(cfg.IndexPath)
+	cfg.StorageURL = expandTildeInURL(cfg.StorageURL)
+
+	// Expand tildes in snapshot paths
+	for name, snap := range cfg.Snapshots {
+		for i, path := range snap.Paths {
+			snap.Paths[i] = expandTilde(path)
+		}
+
+		cfg.Snapshots[name] = snap
+	}
+
 	// Check for environment variable override for IndexPath
 	if envIndexPath := os.Getenv("VAULTIK_INDEX_PATH"); envIndexPath != "" {
-		cfg.IndexPath = envIndexPath
+		cfg.IndexPath = expandTilde(envIndexPath)
 	}
 
+	cfg.setAgeSecretKey()
+
 	// Get hostname if not set
 	if cfg.Hostname == "" {
 		hostname, err := os.Hostname()
 		if err != nil {
 			return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to get hostname: %w", err)
 		}
+
 		cfg.Hostname = hostname
 	}
 
@@ -96,59 +352,192 @@ func Load(path string) (*Config, error) {
 	if cfg.S3.Region == "" {
 		cfg.S3.Region = "us-east-1"
 	}
-	if cfg.S3.PartSize == 0 {
-		cfg.S3.PartSize = 5 * 1024 * 1024 // 5MB
-	}
-
-	if err := cfg.Validate(); err != nil {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("invalid config: %w", err)
-	}
 
 	return cfg, nil
 }
 
-// Validate checks if the configuration is valid
+// Validate checks if the configuration is valid and complete.
+// It ensures all required fields are present and have valid values:
+//   - Every age recipient must parse as an X25519 age1... public key (so a
+//     bad entry fails at load, not mid-backup); errors name the position,
+//     never the value. An empty list is accepted, because only snapshot
+//     create needs a recipient and it checks for one itself
+//   - At least one snapshot must be configured with at least one path
+//   - Storage must be configured (either storage_url or s3.* fields)
+//   - Chunk size must be at least 1MB
+//   - Blob size limit must be at least the largest chunk the chunker can emit
+//     (chunk_size times chunker.ChunkSizeSpread), so a single-chunk blob never
+//     exceeds the configured limit
+//   - Compression level must be between 1 and 19
+//   - S3 part size must be between 5MiB and 5GiB, the part sizes S3 accepts
+//   - Prune grace period must not be negative
+//
+// Returns an error describing the first validation failure encountered.
 func (c *Config) Validate() error {
-	if c.AgeRecipient == "" {
+	for i, recipient := range c.AgeRecipients {
-		return fmt.Errorf("age_recipient is required")
+		err := validateAgeRecipient(recipient)
+		if err != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("age_recipients[%d]: %w", i, err)
+		}
 	}
 
-	if len(c.SourceDirs) == 0 {
+	if len(c.Snapshots) == 0 {
-		return fmt.Errorf("at least one source directory is required")
+		return errNoSnapshots
 	}
 
-	if c.S3.Endpoint == "" {
+	for name, snap := range c.Snapshots {
-		return fmt.Errorf("s3.endpoint is required")
+		if len(snap.Paths) == 0 {
+			return fmt.Errorf("%w: %q", errSnapshotNoPaths, name)
+		}
 	}
 
-	if c.S3.Bucket == "" {
+	// Validate storage configuration
-		return fmt.Errorf("s3.bucket is required")
+	err := c.validateStorage()
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
 	}
 
-	if c.S3.AccessKeyID == "" {
+	if c.ChunkSize.Int64() < minChunkSize {
-		return fmt.Errorf("s3.access_key_id is required")
+		return errChunkSizeTooSmall
 	}
 
-	if c.S3.SecretAccessKey == "" {
+	// The chunker can emit chunks up to chunk_size * ChunkSizeSpread, and the
-		return fmt.Errorf("s3.secret_access_key is required")
+	// packer places a single such chunk into an otherwise empty blob. A limit
+	// below that bound would let a blob exceed it, so reject it.
+	largestChunk := c.ChunkSize.Int64() * chunker.ChunkSizeSpread
+	if c.BlobSizeLimit.Int64() < largestChunk {
+		return fmt.Errorf("%w: need at least %d bytes",
+			errBlobSizeTooSmall, largestChunk)
 	}
 
-	if c.ChunkSize < 1024*1024 { // 1MB minimum
+	if c.CompressionLevel < minCompressionLevel ||
-		return fmt.Errorf("chunk_size must be at least 1MB")
+		c.CompressionLevel > maxCompressionLevel {
+		return errBadCompression
 	}
 
-	if c.BlobSizeLimit < c.ChunkSize {
+	if c.S3.PartSize.Int64() < minS3PartSize ||
-		return fmt.Errorf("blob_size_limit must be at least chunk_size")
+		c.S3.PartSize.Int64() > maxS3PartSize {
+		return errBadS3PartSize
 	}
 
-	if c.CompressionLevel < 1 || c.CompressionLevel > 19 {
+	if c.PruneGracePeriod < 0 {
-		return fmt.Errorf("compression_level must be between 1 and 19")
+		return errNegativePruneGracePeriod
 	}
 
 	return nil
 }
 
-// Module exports the config module for fx
+// validateAgeRecipient parses one age_recipients entry with the age library
+// and returns a value-free error on failure. A recipient string can be
+// sensitive (an operator may paste a secret key by mistake), so neither the
+// entry nor age's own error (which quotes its input) is ever included.
+func validateAgeRecipient(recipient string) error {
+	if strings.HasPrefix(strings.ToUpper(recipient), secretKeyPrefix) {
+		return errRecipientIsSecretKey
+	}
+
+	_, err := age.ParseX25519Recipient(recipient)
+	if err != nil {
+		return errRecipientNotX25519
+	}
+
+	return nil
+}
+
+// setAgeSecretKey records the age secret key and where it came from. The
+// value is stored raw and parsed only where decryption happens
+// (internal/vaultik), so backup, list and prune keep working whatever the
+// field holds. The environment variable overrides the config-file field.
+func (c *Config) setAgeSecretKey() {
+	if c.AgeSecretKey != "" {
+		c.AgeSecretKeySource = ageSecretKeySourceConfig
+	}
+
+	if env := os.Getenv("VAULTIK_AGE_SECRET_KEY"); env != "" {
+		c.AgeSecretKey = env
+		c.AgeSecretKeySource = ageSecretKeySourceEnv
+	}
+}
+
+// readableByOthersWarning is the warning Load logs when others can read
+// the config file. It says "may contain" because the S3 credentials are
+// seen only after smartconfig has replaced any ${...} reference in the
+// file with its value, so a set credential need not be in the file.
+func (c *Config) readableByOthersWarning() string {
+	if c.S3.AccessKeyID != "" || c.S3.SecretAccessKey != "" {
+		return "Config file is readable by others and may contain S3 credentials"
+	}
+
+	return "Config file is readable by others"
+}
+
+// validateStorage validates storage configuration.
+// If StorageURL is set, it takes precedence. S3 URLs require credentials.
+// File URLs don't require any S3 configuration.
+// If StorageURL is not set, legacy S3 configuration is required.
+func (c *Config) validateStorage() error {
+	if c.StorageURL != "" {
+		return c.validateStorageURL()
+	}
+
+	// Legacy S3 configuration
+	if c.S3.Endpoint == "" {
+		return errStorageNotConfigured
+	}
+
+	if c.S3.Bucket == "" {
+		return errS3BucketRequired
+	}
+
+	if c.S3.AccessKeyID == "" {
+		return errS3KeyIDRequired
+	}
+
+	if c.S3.SecretAccessKey == "" {
+		return errS3SecretRequired
+	}
+
+	return nil
+}
+
+// validateStorageURL validates URL-based storage configuration. File and
+// rclone URLs need no credentials; S3 URLs require the legacy s3.*
+// credential fields. A file URL must name an absolute path: a relative one
+// would resolve against the working directory, so the destination would
+// move with it.
+func (c *Config) validateStorageURL() error {
+	switch {
+	case strings.HasPrefix(c.StorageURL, "file://"):
+		// storage.ParseStorageURL applies the same rule, but config
+		// cannot import storage, which imports config.
+		if !strings.HasPrefix(c.StorageURL, "file:///") {
+			return errFileURLNotAbsolute
+		}
+
+		return nil
+	case strings.HasPrefix(c.StorageURL, "rclone://"):
+		// Rclone storage uses rclone's own config
+		return nil
+	case strings.HasPrefix(c.StorageURL, "s3://"):
+		// S3 storage needs credentials
+		if c.S3.AccessKeyID == "" {
+			return fmt.Errorf("%w for s3:// URLs", errS3KeyIDRequired)
+		}
+
+		if c.S3.SecretAccessKey == "" {
+			return fmt.Errorf("%w for s3:// URLs", errS3SecretRequired)
+		}
+
+		return nil
+	default:
+		return errBadStorageScheme
+	}
+}
+
+// Module exports the config module for fx dependency injection.
+// It provides the Config type to other modules in the application.
+//
+//nolint:gochecknoglobals // fx module definitions are package globals
 var Module = fx.Module("config",
 	fx.Provide(New),
 )

internal/config/config_test.go

@@ -1,15 +1,32 @@
-package config
+package config //nolint:testpackage // exercises unexported source constants
 
 import (
+	"errors"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
+	"strings"
 	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/chunker"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/log"
+)
+
+const (
+	testSneakAgePublicKey = "age1278m9q7dp3chsh2dcy82qk27v047zywyvt" +
+		"xwnj4cvt0z65jw6a7q5dqhfj"
+	testIntegrationAgePublicKey = "age1ezrjmfpwsc95svdg0y54mums3zevgzu" +
+		"0x0ecq2f7tp8a05gl0sjq9q9wjg"
+	testIntegrationAgePrivateKey = "AGE-SECRET-KEY-19CR5YSFW59HM4TLD6GX" +
+		"VEDMZFTVVF7PPHKUT68TXSFPK7APHXA2QS2NJA5"
 )
 
 func TestMain(m *testing.M) {
 	// Set up test environment
 	testConfigPath := filepath.Join("..", "..", "test", "config.yaml")
-	if absPath, err := filepath.Abs(testConfigPath); err == nil {
+
+	absPath, err := filepath.Abs(testConfigPath)
+	if err == nil {
 		_ = os.Setenv("VAULTIK_CONFIG", absPath)
 	}
 
@@ -17,8 +34,11 @@ func TestMain(m *testing.M) {
 	os.Exit(code)
 }
 
-// TestConfigLoad ensures the config package can be imported and basic functionality works
+// TestConfigLoad ensures the config package can be imported and basic
+// functionality works.
 func TestConfigLoad(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
 	// Use the test config file
 	configPath := os.Getenv("VAULTIK_CONFIG")
 	if configPath == "" {
@@ -32,20 +52,36 @@ func TestConfigLoad(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 
 	// Basic validation
-	if cfg.AgeRecipient != "age1xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" {
+	if len(cfg.AgeRecipients) != 2 {
-		t.Errorf("Expected age recipient to be set, got '%s'", cfg.AgeRecipient)
+		t.Errorf("Expected 2 age recipients, got %d", len(cfg.AgeRecipients))
 	}
 
-	if len(cfg.SourceDirs) != 2 {
+	if cfg.AgeRecipients[0] != testSneakAgePublicKey {
-		t.Errorf("Expected 2 source dirs, got %d", len(cfg.SourceDirs))
+		t.Errorf("Expected first age recipient to be %s, got '%s'",
+			testSneakAgePublicKey, cfg.AgeRecipients[0])
 	}
 
-	if cfg.SourceDirs[0] != "/tmp/vaultik-test-source" {
+	if len(cfg.Snapshots) != 1 {
-		t.Errorf("Expected first source dir to be '/tmp/vaultik-test-source', got '%s'", cfg.SourceDirs[0])
+		t.Errorf("Expected 1 snapshot, got %d", len(cfg.Snapshots))
+	}
+
+	testSnap, ok := cfg.Snapshots["test"]
+	if !ok {
+		t.Fatal("Expected 'test' snapshot to exist")
+	}
+
+	if len(testSnap.Paths) != 2 {
+		t.Errorf("Expected 2 paths in test snapshot, got %d", len(testSnap.Paths))
+	}
+
+	if testSnap.Paths[0] != "/tmp/vaultik-test-source" {
+		t.Errorf("Expected first path to be '/tmp/vaultik-test-source', got '%s'",
+			testSnap.Paths[0])
 	}
 
 	if cfg.S3.Bucket != "vaultik-test-bucket" {
-		t.Errorf("Expected S3 bucket to be 'vaultik-test-bucket', got '%s'", cfg.S3.Bucket)
+		t.Errorf("Expected S3 bucket to be 'vaultik-test-bucket', got '%s'",
+			cfg.S3.Bucket)
 	}
 
 	if cfg.Hostname != "test-host" {
@@ -53,15 +89,669 @@ func TestConfigLoad(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+// TestExampleConfigIsScrubbedAndLoads checks that the shipped
+// config.example.yml carries only neutral placeholders (no real credentials,
+// private addresses, or internal host names) and still parses.
+func TestExampleConfigIsScrubbedAndLoads(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	examplePath := filepath.Join("..", "..", "config.example.yml")
+
+	cfg, err := Load(examplePath)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("Failed to load config.example.yml: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	if cfg.StorageURL != "rclone://myremote/path/to/backups" {
+		t.Errorf("Expected neutral storage_url, got '%s'", cfg.StorageURL)
+	}
+
+	//nolint:gosec // G304: examplePath is a fixed in-repo path, not user input
+	raw, err := os.ReadFile(examplePath)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("Failed to read config.example.yml: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	text := string(raw)
+
+	wantSubstrings := []string{
+		"YOUR_ACCESS_KEY",
+		"YOUR_SECRET_KEY",
+		"endpoint: https://",
+	}
+	for _, want := range wantSubstrings {
+		if !strings.Contains(text, want) {
+			t.Errorf("Expected config.example.yml to contain %q", want)
+		}
+	}
+
+	// A raw "http://" scheme would mean a plaintext, likely private endpoint.
+	if strings.Contains(text, "http://") {
+		t.Error("config.example.yml should not contain an http:// endpoint")
+	}
+}
+
 // TestConfigFromEnv tests loading config path from environment variable
 func TestConfigFromEnv(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
 	configPath := os.Getenv("VAULTIK_CONFIG")
 	if configPath == "" {
 		t.Skip("VAULTIK_CONFIG not set")
 	}
 
 	// Verify the file exists
-	if _, err := os.Stat(configPath); os.IsNotExist(err) {
+	//nolint:gosec // G703: test config path comes from the test environment
-		t.Errorf("Config file does not exist at path from VAULTIK_CONFIG: %s", configPath)
+	_, err := os.Stat(configPath)
+	if os.IsNotExist(err) {
+		t.Errorf("Config file does not exist at path from VAULTIK_CONFIG: %s",
+			configPath)
+	}
+}
+
+// TestValidateBlobSizeLimit checks the blob_size_limit boundary: it must be at
+// least the largest chunk the chunker can emit (chunk_size times
+// chunker.ChunkSizeSpread), because the packer places a single such chunk into
+// an otherwise empty blob. A limit between chunk_size and that bound is rejected.
+func TestValidateBlobSizeLimit(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	const chunkSize = Size(10 * 1024 * 1024) // 10MB
+
+	largestChunk := chunkSize.Int64() * chunker.ChunkSizeSpread
+
+	newConfig := func(blobLimit Size) *Config {
+		return &Config{
+			AgeRecipients:    []string{testSneakAgePublicKey},
+			Snapshots:        map[string]SnapshotConfig{"test": {Paths: []string{"/tmp/src"}}},
+			StorageURL:       "file:///tmp/vaultik-test-store",
+			ChunkSize:        chunkSize,
+			BlobSizeLimit:    blobLimit,
+			CompressionLevel: 3,
+			S3:               S3Config{PartSize: defaultS3PartSize},
+		}
+	}
+
+	tests := []struct {
+		name      string
+		blobLimit Size
+		wantErr   bool
+	}{
+		{
+			name:      "at chunk_size but below largest chunk is rejected",
+			blobLimit: chunkSize,
+			wantErr:   true,
+		},
+		{
+			name:      "between chunk_size and largest chunk is rejected",
+			blobLimit: Size(chunkSize.Int64() * 2),
+			wantErr:   true,
+		},
+		{
+			name:      "one byte below largest chunk is rejected",
+			blobLimit: Size(largestChunk - 1),
+			wantErr:   true,
+		},
+		{
+			name:      "exactly at largest chunk is accepted",
+			blobLimit: Size(largestChunk),
+			wantErr:   false,
+		},
+		{
+			name:      "above largest chunk is accepted",
+			blobLimit: Size(largestChunk * 100),
+			wantErr:   false,
+		},
+	}
+
+	for _, tt := range tests {
+		t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			t.Parallel()
+
+			err := newConfig(tt.blobLimit).Validate()
+			if tt.wantErr {
+				if !errors.Is(err, errBlobSizeTooSmall) {
+					t.Fatalf("Validate() error = %v, want errBlobSizeTooSmall", err)
+				}
+
+				return
+			}
+
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatalf("Validate() unexpected error: %v", err)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+// TestValidateS3PartSize checks that s3.part_size is held to the part sizes
+// S3 accepts, 5MiB to 5GiB, by changing only the part size of the test
+// config. "5MB" in the config file is 5,000,000 bytes, below the minimum.
+func TestValidateS3PartSize(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	base, err := Load(os.Getenv("VAULTIK_CONFIG"))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("Failed to load config: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	tests := []struct {
+		name     string
+		partSize Size
+		wantErr  bool
+	}{
+		{
+			name:     "5MB is rejected",
+			partSize: 5_000_000,
+			wantErr:  true,
+		},
+		{
+			name:     "one byte below 5MiB is rejected",
+			partSize: minS3PartSize - 1,
+			wantErr:  true,
+		},
+		{
+			name:     "5MiB is accepted",
+			partSize: minS3PartSize,
+			wantErr:  false,
+		},
+		{
+			name:     "5GiB is accepted",
+			partSize: maxS3PartSize,
+			wantErr:  false,
+		},
+		{
+			name:     "one byte above 5GiB is rejected",
+			partSize: maxS3PartSize + 1,
+			wantErr:  true,
+		},
+	}
+
+	for _, tt := range tests {
+		t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			t.Parallel()
+
+			cfg := *base
+			cfg.S3.PartSize = tt.partSize
+
+			err := cfg.Validate()
+			if tt.wantErr {
+				if !errors.Is(err, errBadS3PartSize) {
+					t.Fatalf("Validate() error = %v, want errBadS3PartSize", err)
+				}
+
+				return
+			}
+
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatalf("Validate() unexpected error: %v", err)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+// TestLoadS3PartSize checks that a config file without s3.part_size loads
+// with the 5MiB default, and that an explicit 0 fails at load like any other
+// part size S3 refuses.
+func TestLoadS3PartSize(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	const withoutPartSize = "snapshots:\n" +
+		"  test:\n" +
+		"    paths: [/tmp/vaultik-test-source]\n" +
+		"storage_url: file:///tmp/vaultik-test-storage\n"
+
+	writeConfig := func(t *testing.T, text string) string {
+		t.Helper()
+
+		path := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "config.yml")
+
+		err := os.WriteFile(path, []byte(text), 0o600)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("write config: %v", err)
+		}
+
+		return path
+	}
+
+	t.Run("absent loads as 5MiB", func(t *testing.T) {
+		t.Parallel()
+
+		cfg, err := Load(writeConfig(t, withoutPartSize))
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("Load() unexpected error: %v", err)
+		}
+
+		if cfg.S3.PartSize != defaultS3PartSize {
+			t.Errorf("s3.part_size = %d, want %d",
+				cfg.S3.PartSize, defaultS3PartSize)
+		}
+	})
+
+	t.Run("0 is rejected", func(t *testing.T) {
+		t.Parallel()
+
+		_, err := Load(writeConfig(t, withoutPartSize+"s3:\n  part_size: 0\n"))
+		if !errors.Is(err, errBadS3PartSize) {
+			t.Fatalf("Load() error = %v, want errBadS3PartSize", err)
+		}
+	})
+}
+
+// TestDocumentedSizeDefaults checks that the defaults are the documented
+// chunk_size 10MB and blob_size_limit 10GB as the parser reads those values
+// (1000-based), so writing a default out in the config file changes nothing.
+func TestDocumentedSizeDefaults(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	cfg, err := Parse([]byte("chunk_size: 10MB\nblob_size_limit: 10GB\n"))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("Parse() unexpected error: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	if cfg.ChunkSize != defaultChunkSize {
+		t.Errorf("chunk_size: 10MB is %d bytes, the default is %d",
+			cfg.ChunkSize, defaultChunkSize)
+	}
+
+	if cfg.BlobSizeLimit != defaultBlobSizeLimit {
+		t.Errorf("blob_size_limit: 10GB is %d bytes, the default is %d",
+			cfg.BlobSizeLimit, defaultBlobSizeLimit)
+	}
+}
+
+// TestDocumentedSizeExamples checks the 1MB minimum chunk_size and that
+// every size the README, config.example.yml and the config init template
+// list as an example is accepted.
+func TestDocumentedSizeExamples(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	const withoutSizes = "snapshots:\n" +
+		"  test:\n" +
+		"    paths: [/tmp/vaultik-test-source]\n" +
+		"storage_url: file:///tmp/vaultik-test-storage\n"
+
+	tests := []struct {
+		setting string
+		wantErr error
+	}{
+		{"chunk_size: 1MB", nil},
+		{"chunk_size: 999999", errChunkSizeTooSmall},
+		{"chunk_size: 5M", nil},
+		{"chunk_size: 10M", nil},
+		{"chunk_size: 10MB", nil},
+		{"chunk_size: 64MiB", nil},
+		{"chunk_size: 1GB", nil},
+		// Four times the default chunk_size, the documented minimum.
+		{"blob_size_limit: 40MB", nil},
+		{"blob_size_limit: 500MB", nil},
+		{"blob_size_limit: 1GB", nil},
+		{"blob_size_limit: 1GiB", nil},
+		{"blob_size_limit: 10G", nil},
+		{"blob_size_limit: 10GB", nil},
+		{"s3: {part_size: 5MiB}", nil},
+		{"s3: {part_size: 10MB}", nil},
+		{"s3: {part_size: 16MiB}", nil},
+		{"s3: {part_size: 100MiB}", nil},
+		{"s3: {part_size: 5GiB}", nil},
+	}
+
+	for _, tt := range tests {
+		t.Run(tt.setting, func(t *testing.T) {
+			t.Parallel()
+
+			cfg, err := Parse([]byte(withoutSizes + tt.setting + "\n"))
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatalf("Parse() unexpected error: %v", err)
+			}
+
+			err = cfg.Validate()
+			if !errors.Is(err, tt.wantErr) {
+				t.Fatalf("Validate() error = %v, want %v", err, tt.wantErr)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+// TestValidatePruneGracePeriod checks that a negative prune_grace_period
+// is refused rather than acting like 0s, which deletes unreferenced blobs
+// and directories under metadata/ with no manifest at once, and that 0s
+// and the documented examples are accepted.
+func TestValidatePruneGracePeriod(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	const withoutGracePeriod = "snapshots:\n" +
+		"  test:\n" +
+		"    paths: [/tmp/vaultik-test-source]\n" +
+		"storage_url: file:///tmp/vaultik-test-storage\n"
+
+	tests := []struct {
+		setting string
+		wantErr error
+	}{
+		{"prune_grace_period: 0s", nil},
+		{"prune_grace_period: 90m", nil},
+		{"prune_grace_period: 36h", nil},
+		{"prune_grace_period: -1h", errNegativePruneGracePeriod},
+	}
+
+	for _, tt := range tests {
+		t.Run(tt.setting, func(t *testing.T) {
+			t.Parallel()
+
+			cfg, err := Parse([]byte(withoutGracePeriod + tt.setting + "\n"))
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatalf("Parse() unexpected error: %v", err)
+			}
+
+			err = cfg.Validate()
+			if !errors.Is(err, tt.wantErr) {
+				t.Fatalf("Validate() error = %v, want %v", err, tt.wantErr)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+// TestLoadPruneGracePeriod checks that a config file without
+// prune_grace_period loads with the documented 24h. The value is written out
+// here rather than taken from defaultPruneGracePeriod, so that a change of the
+// default fails this test.
+func TestLoadPruneGracePeriod(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	const withoutGracePeriod = "snapshots:\n" +
+		"  test:\n" +
+		"    paths: [/tmp/vaultik-test-source]\n" +
+		"storage_url: file:///tmp/vaultik-test-storage\n"
+
+	path := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "config.yml")
+
+	err := os.WriteFile(path, []byte(withoutGracePeriod), 0o600)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("write config: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	cfg, err := Load(path)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("Load() unexpected error: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	if cfg.PruneGracePeriod != 24*time.Hour {
+		t.Errorf("prune_grace_period = %s, want 24h", cfg.PruneGracePeriod)
+	}
+}
+
+// TestLoadRejectsRelativeFileURL checks that a file:// storage_url with a
+// relative path fails at load. Accepted, it would resolve against the
+// working directory, so a backup run from another directory would write
+// to a different destination and still succeed.
+func TestLoadRejectsRelativeFileURL(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	const relativeConfig = "snapshots:\n" +
+		"  test:\n" +
+		"    paths: [/tmp/vaultik-test-source]\n" +
+		"storage_url: file://dest\n"
+
+	path := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "config.yml")
+
+	err := os.WriteFile(path, []byte(relativeConfig), 0o600)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("write config: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	_, err = Load(path)
+	if !errors.Is(err, errFileURLNotAbsolute) {
+		t.Fatalf("Load() error = %v, want errFileURLNotAbsolute", err)
+	}
+
+	if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "absolute path") {
+		t.Errorf("error %q does not say to use an absolute path", err.Error())
+	}
+}
+
+// TestValidateAgeRecipients checks that recipients are parsed at config load
+// (a bad entry fails immediately, not mid-backup) and that no invalid entry —
+// least of all a pasted secret key — is echoed in the error. An empty list
+// loads, because only snapshot create needs a recipient.
+func TestValidateAgeRecipients(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	baseConfig := func(recipients []string) *Config {
+		return &Config{
+			AgeRecipients:    recipients,
+			Snapshots:        map[string]SnapshotConfig{"test": {Paths: []string{"/tmp/src"}}},
+			StorageURL:       "file:///tmp/vaultik-test-store",
+			ChunkSize:        Size(10 * 1024 * 1024),
+			BlobSizeLimit:    Size(10 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024),
+			CompressionLevel: 3,
+			S3:               S3Config{PartSize: defaultS3PartSize},
+		}
+	}
+
+	tests := []struct {
+		name       string
+		recipients []string
+		wantErr    bool
+	}{
+		{
+			name:       "no recipients is accepted",
+			recipients: nil,
+			wantErr:    false,
+		},
+		{
+			name:       "placeholder recipient is rejected",
+			recipients: []string{"age1REPLACE_WITH_YOUR_PUBLIC_KEY"},
+			wantErr:    true,
+		},
+		{
+			name:       "ssh-ed25519 recipient is rejected",
+			recipients: []string{"ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIexamplekeydata"},
+			wantErr:    true,
+		},
+		{
+			name:       "truncated age1 string is rejected",
+			recipients: []string{"age1short"},
+			wantErr:    true,
+		},
+		{
+			name:       "secret key passed as recipient is rejected",
+			recipients: []string{testIntegrationAgePrivateKey},
+			wantErr:    true,
+		},
+		{
+			name:       "two valid recipients are accepted",
+			recipients: []string{testSneakAgePublicKey, testIntegrationAgePublicKey},
+			wantErr:    false,
+		},
+	}
+
+	for _, tt := range tests {
+		t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			t.Parallel()
+
+			err := baseConfig(tt.recipients).Validate()
+			if !tt.wantErr {
+				if err != nil {
+					t.Fatalf("Validate() unexpected error: %v", err)
+				}
+
+				return
+			}
+
+			if err == nil {
+				t.Fatal("Validate() returned nil, want error")
+			}
+
+			// The entry itself must never appear in the error, since a
+			// recipient string can be a secret key.
+			for _, recipient := range tt.recipients {
+				if strings.Contains(err.Error(), recipient) {
+					t.Fatalf("Validate() error echoed the recipient value: %v", err)
+				}
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+// TestAgeSecretKeySourceName checks the name reported for the configured
+// age secret key: the recorded source when Load set one, and the
+// config-file field name for a Config built directly (as in tests).
+func TestAgeSecretKeySourceName(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	tests := []struct {
+		name   string
+		source string
+		want   string
+	}{
+		{
+			name:   "unset defaults to config field",
+			source: "",
+			want:   ageSecretKeySourceConfig,
+		},
+		{
+			name:   "environment source",
+			source: ageSecretKeySourceEnv,
+			want:   ageSecretKeySourceEnv,
+		},
+		{
+			name:   "config-file source",
+			source: ageSecretKeySourceConfig,
+			want:   ageSecretKeySourceConfig,
+		},
+	}
+
+	for _, tt := range tests {
+		t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			t.Parallel()
+
+			cfg := &Config{AgeSecretKeySource: tt.source}
+			if got := cfg.AgeSecretKeySourceName(); got != tt.want {
+				t.Errorf("AgeSecretKeySourceName() = %q, want %q", got, tt.want)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+// loadReadableConfig writes configYAML to a file that others can read,
+// loads it, and returns what the logger wrote to stderr meanwhile. The
+// logger writes to the os.Stderr it finds when it is initialized, so
+// os.Stderr is pointed at a file first. Not parallel-safe: os.Stderr and
+// the logger are process-global.
+func loadReadableConfig(t *testing.T, configYAML string) string {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	dir := t.TempDir()
+	configPath := filepath.Join(dir, "config.yml")
+	stderrPath := filepath.Join(dir, "stderr")
+
+	err := os.WriteFile(configPath, []byte(configYAML), 0o600)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("writing config: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	//nolint:gosec // G302: the test needs a config file others can read
+	err = os.Chmod(configPath, 0o644)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("chmod config: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	stderrFile, err := os.Create(stderrPath) //nolint:gosec // G304: test temp path
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("creating stderr file: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	previous := os.Stderr
+	os.Stderr = stderrFile
+
+	log.Initialize(log.Config{})
+
+	_, loadErr := Load(configPath)
+
+	os.Stderr = previous
+
+	log.Initialize(log.Config{})
+
+	_ = stderrFile.Close()
+
+	if loadErr != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("Load() error = %v", loadErr)
+	}
+
+	captured, err := os.ReadFile(stderrPath) //nolint:gosec // G304: test temp path
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("reading stderr file: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	return string(captured)
+}
+
+// TestLoadWarnsReadableConfigWithoutS3Credentials checks that a config
+// file others can read, holding no S3 credentials, is warned about
+// without a claim that it holds them.
+//
+//nolint:paralleltest // loadReadableConfig replaces os.Stderr
+func TestLoadWarnsReadableConfigWithoutS3Credentials(t *testing.T) {
+	stderr := loadReadableConfig(t, `
+storage_url: file:///var/backups/vaultik
+snapshots:
+  home:
+    paths:
+      - /home
+`)
+
+	if !strings.Contains(stderr, "Config file is readable by others") {
+		t.Errorf("expected a warning that the file is readable by others, got %q",
+			stderr)
+	}
+
+	if strings.Contains(stderr, "S3 credentials") {
+		t.Errorf("warning names S3 credentials the file does not set: %q", stderr)
+	}
+}
+
+// TestLoadWarnsReadableConfigWithS3Credentials checks that a config file
+// others can read and that sets S3 credentials, as values or as ${ENV:...}
+// references, is warned about as one that may contain them.
+//
+//nolint:paralleltest // loadReadableConfig replaces os.Stderr
+func TestLoadWarnsReadableConfigWithS3Credentials(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Setenv("VAULTIK_TEST_ACCESS_KEY_ID", "test-access-key")
+	t.Setenv("VAULTIK_TEST_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY", "test-secret-key")
+
+	configs := map[string]string{
+		"values": `
+storage_url: s3://bucket/prefix?endpoint=s3.example.com
+s3:
+  access_key_id: test-access-key
+  secret_access_key: test-secret-key
+snapshots:
+  home:
+    paths:
+      - /home
+`,
+		"references": `
+storage_url: s3://bucket/prefix?endpoint=s3.example.com
+s3:
+  access_key_id: ${ENV:VAULTIK_TEST_ACCESS_KEY_ID}
+  secret_access_key: ${ENV:VAULTIK_TEST_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY}
+snapshots:
+  home:
+    paths:
+      - /home
+`,
+	}
+
+	for name, configYAML := range configs {
+		t.Run(name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			stderr := loadReadableConfig(t, configYAML)
+
+			if !strings.Contains(stderr,
+				"Config file is readable by others and may contain S3 credentials") {
+				t.Errorf("expected a warning naming the S3 credentials, got %q",
+					stderr)
+			}
+		})
 	}
 }

internal/config/size.go

@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+package config
+
+import (
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"math"
+
+	"github.com/dustin/go-humanize"
+)
+
+var (
+	errSizeType     = errors.New("size must be a number or string")
+	errSizeTooLarge = errors.New("size exceeds maximum supported value")
+)
+
+// Size represents a byte size that can be specified in configuration files.
+// It can unmarshal from both numeric values (interpreted as bytes) and
+// human-readable strings like "10MB", "2.5GB", or "1TB".
+type Size int64
+
+// UnmarshalYAML implements yaml.Unmarshaler for Size, allowing it to be
+// parsed from YAML configuration files. It accepts both numeric values
+// (interpreted as bytes) and string values with units (e.g., "10MB").
+func (s *Size) UnmarshalYAML(unmarshal func(any) error) error {
+	// Try to unmarshal as int64 first
+	var intVal int64
+
+	err := unmarshal(&intVal)
+	if err == nil {
+		*s = Size(intVal)
+
+		return nil
+	}
+
+	// Try to unmarshal as string
+	var strVal string
+
+	err = unmarshal(&strVal)
+	if err != nil {
+		return errSizeType
+	}
+
+	// Parse the string using go-humanize
+	bytes, err := humanize.ParseBytes(strVal)
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("invalid size format: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	if bytes > math.MaxInt64 {
+		return fmt.Errorf("%w: %s", errSizeTooLarge, strVal)
+	}
+
+	*s = Size(bytes)
+
+	return nil
+}
+
+// Int64 returns the size as int64 bytes.
+// This is useful when the size needs to be passed to APIs that expect
+// a numeric byte count.
+func (s Size) Int64() int64 {
+	return int64(s)
+}
+
+// String returns the size as a human-readable string.
+// For example, 1048576 bytes would be formatted as "1.0 MB".
+// This implements the fmt.Stringer interface.
+func (s Size) String() string {
+	//nolint:gosec // G115: sizes are non-negative by construction
+	return humanize.Bytes(uint64(s))
+}
+
+// ParseSize parses a size string into a Size value
+func ParseSize(s string) (Size, error) {
+	bytes, err := humanize.ParseBytes(s)
+	if err != nil {
+		return 0, fmt.Errorf("invalid size format: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	if bytes > math.MaxInt64 {
+		return 0, fmt.Errorf("%w: %s", errSizeTooLarge, s)
+	}
+
+	return Size(bytes), nil
+}

internal/database/blob_chunks.go

@@ -3,28 +3,35 @@ package database
 import (
 	"context"
 	"database/sql"
+	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 )
 
+// BlobChunkRepository provides access to the blob_chunks table, which maps
+// blobs to the chunks they contain (with offset and length).
 type BlobChunkRepository struct {
 	db *DB
 }
 
+// NewBlobChunkRepository creates a BlobChunkRepository backed by db.
 func NewBlobChunkRepository(db *DB) *BlobChunkRepository {
 	return &BlobChunkRepository{db: db}
 }
 
-func (r *BlobChunkRepository) Create(ctx context.Context, tx *sql.Tx, bc *BlobChunk) error {
+// Create inserts a blob_chunks row, using tx when non-nil.
+func (r *BlobChunkRepository) Create(
+	ctx context.Context, tx *sql.Tx, bc *BlobChunk,
+) error {
 	query := `
-		INSERT INTO blob_chunks (blob_hash, chunk_hash, offset, length)
+		INSERT INTO blob_chunks (blob_id, chunk_hash, offset, length)
 		VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?)
 	`
 
 	var err error
 	if tx != nil {
-		_, err = tx.ExecContext(ctx, query, bc.BlobHash, bc.ChunkHash, bc.Offset, bc.Length)
+		_, err = tx.ExecContext(ctx, query, bc.BlobID, bc.ChunkHash, bc.Offset, bc.Length)
 	} else {
-		_, err = r.db.ExecWithLock(ctx, query, bc.BlobHash, bc.ChunkHash, bc.Offset, bc.Length)
+		_, err = r.db.ExecWithLog(ctx, query, bc.BlobID, bc.ChunkHash, bc.Offset, bc.Length)
 	}
 
 	if err != nil {
@@ -34,55 +41,150 @@ func (r *BlobChunkRepository) Create(ctx context.Context, tx *sql.Tx, bc *BlobCh
 	return nil
 }
 
-func (r *BlobChunkRepository) GetByBlobHash(ctx context.Context, blobHash string) ([]*BlobChunk, error) {
+// GetByBlobID returns all chunks contained in the given blob, ordered by
+// their offset within the blob.
+func (r *BlobChunkRepository) GetByBlobID(
+	ctx context.Context, blobID string,
+) ([]*BlobChunk, error) {
 	query := `
-		SELECT blob_hash, chunk_hash, offset, length
+		SELECT blob_id, chunk_hash, offset, length
 		FROM blob_chunks
-		WHERE blob_hash = ?
+		WHERE blob_id = ?
 		ORDER BY offset
 	`
 
-	rows, err := r.db.conn.QueryContext(ctx, query, blobHash)
+	rows, err := r.db.conn.QueryContext(ctx, query, blobID)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("querying blob chunks: %w", err)
 	}
-	defer CloseRows(rows)
+
+	defer func() { _ = rows.Close() }()
 
 	var blobChunks []*BlobChunk
+
 	for rows.Next() {
 		var bc BlobChunk
-		err := rows.Scan(&bc.BlobHash, &bc.ChunkHash, &bc.Offset, &bc.Length)
+
+		err := rows.Scan(&bc.BlobID, &bc.ChunkHash, &bc.Offset, &bc.Length)
 		if err != nil {
 			return nil, fmt.Errorf("scanning blob chunk: %w", err)
 		}
+
 		blobChunks = append(blobChunks, &bc)
 	}
 
 	return blobChunks, rows.Err()
 }
 
-func (r *BlobChunkRepository) GetByChunkHash(ctx context.Context, chunkHash string) (*BlobChunk, error) {
+// GetByChunkHash returns one blob_chunks row containing the given chunk,
+// or nil if the chunk is not packed in any blob.
+func (r *BlobChunkRepository) GetByChunkHash(
+	ctx context.Context, chunkHash string,
+) (*BlobChunk, error) {
 	query := `
-		SELECT blob_hash, chunk_hash, offset, length
+		SELECT blob_id, chunk_hash, offset, length
 		FROM blob_chunks
 		WHERE chunk_hash = ?
 		LIMIT 1
 	`
 
+	LogSQL("GetByChunkHash", query, chunkHash)
+
 	var bc BlobChunk
+
 	err := r.db.conn.QueryRowContext(ctx, query, chunkHash).Scan(
-		&bc.BlobHash,
+		&bc.BlobID,
 		&bc.ChunkHash,
 		&bc.Offset,
 		&bc.Length,
 	)
 
-	if err == sql.ErrNoRows {
+	if errors.Is(err, sql.ErrNoRows) {
-		return nil, nil
+		LogSQL("GetByChunkHash", "No rows found", chunkHash)
+
+		return nil, nil //nolint:nilnil // nil,nil signals not-found; callers check nil
 	}
+
 	if err != nil {
+		LogSQL("GetByChunkHash", "Error", chunkHash, err)
+
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("querying blob chunk: %w", err)
 	}
 
+	LogSQL("GetByChunkHash", "Found blob", chunkHash, "blob", bc.BlobID)
+
 	return &bc, nil
 }
+
+// GetByChunkHashTx retrieves a blob chunk within a transaction
+func (r *BlobChunkRepository) GetByChunkHashTx(
+	ctx context.Context, tx *sql.Tx, chunkHash string,
+) (*BlobChunk, error) {
+	query := `
+		SELECT blob_id, chunk_hash, offset, length
+		FROM blob_chunks
+		WHERE chunk_hash = ?
+		LIMIT 1
+	`
+
+	LogSQL("GetByChunkHashTx", query, chunkHash)
+
+	var bc BlobChunk
+
+	err := tx.QueryRowContext(ctx, query, chunkHash).Scan(
+		&bc.BlobID,
+		&bc.ChunkHash,
+		&bc.Offset,
+		&bc.Length,
+	)
+
+	if errors.Is(err, sql.ErrNoRows) {
+		LogSQL("GetByChunkHashTx", "No rows found", chunkHash)
+
+		return nil, nil //nolint:nilnil // nil,nil signals not-found; callers check nil
+	}
+
+	if err != nil {
+		LogSQL("GetByChunkHashTx", "Error", chunkHash, err)
+
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("querying blob chunk: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	LogSQL("GetByChunkHashTx", "Found blob", chunkHash, "blob", bc.BlobID)
+
+	return &bc, nil
+}
+
+// DeleteOrphaned deletes blob_chunks entries where either the blob or the
+// chunk no longer exists.
+func (r *BlobChunkRepository) DeleteOrphaned(ctx context.Context) error {
+	// Delete blob_chunks where the blob doesn't exist
+	query1 := `
+		DELETE FROM blob_chunks
+		WHERE NOT EXISTS (
+			SELECT 1 FROM blobs
+			WHERE blobs.id = blob_chunks.blob_id
+		)
+	`
+
+	_, err := r.db.ExecWithLog(ctx, query1)
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("deleting blob_chunks with missing blobs: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	// Delete blob_chunks where the chunk doesn't exist
+	query2 := `
+		DELETE FROM blob_chunks
+		WHERE NOT EXISTS (
+			SELECT 1 FROM chunks
+			WHERE chunks.chunk_hash = blob_chunks.chunk_hash
+		)
+	`
+
+	_, err = r.db.ExecWithLog(ctx, query2)
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("deleting blob_chunks with missing chunks: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	return nil
+}

internal/database/blob_chunks_test.go

@@ -1,146 +1,262 @@
-package database
+package database_test
 
 import (
 	"context"
+	"strings"
 	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/database"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/types"
 )
 
+// Chunk hashes used across the blob_chunks tests.
+const (
+	chunk1Hash = "chunk1"
+	chunk2Hash = "chunk2"
+	chunk3Hash = "chunk3"
+)
+
+// mustCreateChunks registers the given chunk hashes (1024 bytes each).
+func mustCreateChunks(
+	t *testing.T,
+	repos *database.Repositories,
+	hashes ...types.ChunkHash,
+) {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	ctx := context.Background()
+
+	for _, chunkHash := range hashes {
+		chunk := &database.Chunk{
+			ChunkHash: chunkHash,
+			Size:      1024,
+		}
+
+		err := repos.Chunks.Create(ctx, nil, chunk)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("failed to create chunk %s: %v", chunkHash, err)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// mustCreateBlob creates a blob row with the given hash.
+func mustCreateBlob(
+	t *testing.T,
+	repos *database.Repositories,
+	hash types.BlobHash,
+) *database.Blob {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	blob := &database.Blob{
+		ID:        types.NewBlobID(),
+		Hash:      hash,
+		CreatedTS: time.Now(),
+	}
+
+	err := repos.Blobs.Create(context.Background(), nil, blob)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to create blob %s: %v", hash, err)
+	}
+
+	return blob
+}
+
 func TestBlobChunkRepository(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
 	db, cleanup := setupTestDB(t)
 	defer cleanup()
 
 	ctx := context.Background()
-	repo := NewBlobChunkRepository(db)
+	repos := database.NewRepositories(db)
+
+	blob := mustCreateBlob(t, repos, "blob1-hash")
+	mustCreateChunks(t, repos, chunk1Hash, chunk2Hash, chunk3Hash)
 
 	// Test Create
-	bc1 := &BlobChunk{
+	bc1 := &database.BlobChunk{
-		BlobHash:  "blob1",
+		BlobID:    blob.ID,
-		ChunkHash: "chunk1",
+		ChunkHash: types.ChunkHash(chunk1Hash),
 		Offset:    0,
 		Length:    1024,
 	}
 
-	err := repo.Create(ctx, nil, bc1)
+	err := repos.BlobChunks.Create(ctx, nil, bc1)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("failed to create blob chunk: %v", err)
 	}
 
 	// Add more chunks to the same blob
-	bc2 := &BlobChunk{
+	bc2 := &database.BlobChunk{
-		BlobHash:  "blob1",
+		BlobID:    blob.ID,
-		ChunkHash: "chunk2",
+		ChunkHash: types.ChunkHash(chunk2Hash),
 		Offset:    1024,
 		Length:    2048,
 	}
-	err = repo.Create(ctx, nil, bc2)
+
+	err = repos.BlobChunks.Create(ctx, nil, bc2)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("failed to create second blob chunk: %v", err)
 	}
 
-	bc3 := &BlobChunk{
+	bc3 := &database.BlobChunk{
-		BlobHash:  "blob1",
+		BlobID:    blob.ID,
-		ChunkHash: "chunk3",
+		ChunkHash: types.ChunkHash(chunk3Hash),
 		Offset:    3072,
 		Length:    512,
 	}
-	err = repo.Create(ctx, nil, bc3)
+
+	err = repos.BlobChunks.Create(ctx, nil, bc3)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("failed to create third blob chunk: %v", err)
 	}
 
-	// Test GetByBlobHash
+	// Test GetByBlobID
-	chunks, err := repo.GetByBlobHash(ctx, "blob1")
+	blobChunks, err := repos.BlobChunks.GetByBlobID(ctx, blob.ID.String())
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("failed to get blob chunks: %v", err)
 	}
-	if len(chunks) != 3 {
+
-		t.Errorf("expected 3 chunks, got %d", len(chunks))
+	if len(blobChunks) != 3 {
+		t.Errorf("expected 3 chunks, got %d", len(blobChunks))
 	}
 
 	// Verify order by offset
 	expectedOffsets := []int64{0, 1024, 3072}
-	for i, chunk := range chunks {
+	for i, bc := range blobChunks {
-		if chunk.Offset != expectedOffsets[i] {
+		if bc.Offset != expectedOffsets[i] {
-			t.Errorf("wrong chunk order: expected offset %d, got %d", expectedOffsets[i], chunk.Offset)
+			t.Errorf("wrong chunk order: expected offset %d, got %d",
+				expectedOffsets[i], bc.Offset)
 		}
 	}
 
+	// Test duplicate insert (should fail due to primary key constraint)
+	err = repos.BlobChunks.Create(ctx, nil, bc1)
+	if err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("duplicate blob_chunk insert should fail due to primary key constraint")
+	}
+
+	if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "UNIQUE") &&
+		!strings.Contains(err.Error(), "constraint") {
+		t.Fatalf("expected constraint error, got: %v", err)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestBlobChunkRepositoryGetByChunkHash(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	db, cleanup := setupTestDB(t)
+	defer cleanup()
+
+	ctx := context.Background()
+	repos := database.NewRepositories(db)
+
+	blob := mustCreateBlob(t, repos, "blob-gbch-hash")
+	mustCreateChunks(t, repos, chunk2Hash)
+
+	bc2 := &database.BlobChunk{
+		BlobID:    blob.ID,
+		ChunkHash: types.ChunkHash(chunk2Hash),
+		Offset:    1024,
+		Length:    2048,
+	}
+
+	err := repos.BlobChunks.Create(ctx, nil, bc2)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to create blob chunk: %v", err)
+	}
+
 	// Test GetByChunkHash
-	bc, err := repo.GetByChunkHash(ctx, "chunk2")
+	bc, err := repos.BlobChunks.GetByChunkHash(ctx, chunk2Hash)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("failed to get blob chunk by chunk hash: %v", err)
 	}
+
 	if bc == nil {
 		t.Fatal("expected blob chunk, got nil")
 	}
-	if bc.BlobHash != "blob1" {
+
-		t.Errorf("wrong blob hash: expected blob1, got %s", bc.BlobHash)
+	if bc.BlobID != blob.ID {
+		t.Errorf("wrong blob ID: expected %s, got %s", blob.ID, bc.BlobID)
 	}
+
 	if bc.Offset != 1024 {
 		t.Errorf("wrong offset: expected 1024, got %d", bc.Offset)
 	}
 
 	// Test non-existent chunk
-	bc, err = repo.GetByChunkHash(ctx, "nonexistent")
+	bc, err = repos.BlobChunks.GetByChunkHash(ctx, "nonexistent")
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("unexpected error: %v", err)
 	}
+
 	if bc != nil {
 		t.Error("expected nil for non-existent chunk")
 	}
 }
 
 func TestBlobChunkRepositoryMultipleBlobs(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
 	db, cleanup := setupTestDB(t)
 	defer cleanup()
 
 	ctx := context.Background()
-	repo := NewBlobChunkRepository(db)
+	repos := database.NewRepositories(db)
+
+	blob1 := mustCreateBlob(t, repos, "blob1-hash")
+	blob2 := mustCreateBlob(t, repos, "blob2-hash")
+	mustCreateChunks(t, repos, chunk1Hash, chunk2Hash, chunk3Hash)
 
 	// Create chunks across multiple blobs
 	// Some chunks are shared between blobs (deduplication scenario)
-	blobChunks := []BlobChunk{
+	blobChunks := []database.BlobChunk{
-		{BlobHash: "blob1", ChunkHash: "chunk1", Offset: 0, Length: 1024},
+		{BlobID: blob1.ID, ChunkHash: chunk1Hash, Offset: 0, Length: 1024},
-		{BlobHash: "blob1", ChunkHash: "chunk2", Offset: 1024, Length: 1024},
+		{BlobID: blob1.ID, ChunkHash: chunk2Hash, Offset: 1024, Length: 1024},
-		{BlobHash: "blob2", ChunkHash: "chunk2", Offset: 0, Length: 1024}, // chunk2 is shared
+		// chunk2 is shared between the blobs
-		{BlobHash: "blob2", ChunkHash: "chunk3", Offset: 1024, Length: 1024},
+		{BlobID: blob2.ID, ChunkHash: chunk2Hash, Offset: 0, Length: 1024},
+		{BlobID: blob2.ID, ChunkHash: chunk3Hash, Offset: 1024, Length: 1024},
 	}
 
 	for _, bc := range blobChunks {
-		err := repo.Create(ctx, nil, &bc)
+		err := repos.BlobChunks.Create(ctx, nil, &bc)
 		if err != nil {
 			t.Fatalf("failed to create blob chunk: %v", err)
 		}
 	}
 
 	// Verify blob1 chunks
-	chunks, err := repo.GetByBlobHash(ctx, "blob1")
+	chunks, err := repos.BlobChunks.GetByBlobID(ctx, blob1.ID.String())
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("failed to get blob1 chunks: %v", err)
 	}
+
 	if len(chunks) != 2 {
 		t.Errorf("expected 2 chunks for blob1, got %d", len(chunks))
 	}
 
 	// Verify blob2 chunks
-	chunks, err = repo.GetByBlobHash(ctx, "blob2")
+	chunks, err = repos.BlobChunks.GetByBlobID(ctx, blob2.ID.String())
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("failed to get blob2 chunks: %v", err)
 	}
+
 	if len(chunks) != 2 {
 		t.Errorf("expected 2 chunks for blob2, got %d", len(chunks))
 	}
 
 	// Verify shared chunk
-	bc, err := repo.GetByChunkHash(ctx, "chunk2")
+	bc, err := repos.BlobChunks.GetByChunkHash(ctx, chunk2Hash)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("failed to get shared chunk: %v", err)
 	}
+
 	if bc == nil {
 		t.Fatal("expected shared chunk, got nil")
 	}
 	// GetByChunkHash returns first match, should be blob1
-	if bc.BlobHash != "blob1" {
+	if bc.BlobID != blob1.ID {
-		t.Errorf("expected blob1 for shared chunk, got %s", bc.BlobHash)
+		t.Errorf("expected %s for shared chunk, got %s", blob1.ID, bc.BlobID)
 	}
 }

internal/database/blobs.go

@@ -3,29 +3,51 @@ package database
 import (
 	"context"
 	"database/sql"
+	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"time"
+
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/log"
 )
 
+// BlobRepository provides access to the blobs table, which tracks the
+// packed, encrypted storage units uploaded to the destination.
 type BlobRepository struct {
 	db *DB
 }
 
+// NewBlobRepository creates a BlobRepository backed by db.
 func NewBlobRepository(db *DB) *BlobRepository {
 	return &BlobRepository{db: db}
 }
 
+// Create inserts a blob row, using tx when non-nil.
 func (r *BlobRepository) Create(ctx context.Context, tx *sql.Tx, blob *Blob) error {
 	query := `
-		INSERT INTO blobs (blob_hash, created_ts)
+		INSERT INTO blobs (id, blob_hash, created_ts, finished_ts,
-		VALUES (?, ?)
+			uncompressed_size, compressed_size, uploaded_ts)
+		VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)
 	`
 
+	var finishedTS, uploadedTS *int64
+
+	if blob.FinishedTS != nil {
+		ts := blob.FinishedTS.Unix()
+		finishedTS = &ts
+	}
+
+	if blob.UploadedTS != nil {
+		ts := blob.UploadedTS.Unix()
+		uploadedTS = &ts
+	}
+
 	var err error
 	if tx != nil {
-		_, err = tx.ExecContext(ctx, query, blob.BlobHash, blob.CreatedTS.Unix())
+		_, err = tx.ExecContext(ctx, query, blob.ID, blob.Hash, blob.CreatedTS.Unix(),
+			finishedTS, blob.UncompressedSize, blob.CompressedSize, uploadedTS)
 	} else {
-		_, err = r.db.ExecWithLock(ctx, query, blob.BlobHash, blob.CreatedTS.Unix())
+		_, err = r.db.ExecWithLog(ctx, query, blob.ID, blob.Hash, blob.CreatedTS.Unix(),
+			finishedTS, blob.UncompressedSize, blob.CompressedSize, uploadedTS)
 	}
 
 	if err != nil {
@@ -35,62 +57,224 @@ func (r *BlobRepository) Create(ctx context.Context, tx *sql.Tx, blob *Blob) err
 	return nil
 }
 
+// GetByHash returns the blob with the given content hash, or nil if no
+// such blob exists.
 func (r *BlobRepository) GetByHash(ctx context.Context, hash string) (*Blob, error) {
+	return r.getOne(ctx, "blob_hash", hash)
+}
+
+// GetByID retrieves a blob by its ID
+func (r *BlobRepository) GetByID(ctx context.Context, id string) (*Blob, error) {
+	return r.getOne(ctx, "id", id)
+}
+
+// GetAll returns every blob row keyed by blob ID. Useful at restore
+// start to translate the per-chunk blob_id references in chunkToBlobMap
+// into blob hashes without doing one GetByID query per chunk.
+func (r *BlobRepository) GetAll(ctx context.Context) (map[string]*Blob, error) {
 	query := `
-		SELECT blob_hash, created_ts
+		SELECT id, blob_hash, created_ts, finished_ts,
+			uncompressed_size, compressed_size, uploaded_ts
 		FROM blobs
-		WHERE blob_hash = ?
 	`
 
-	var blob Blob
+	rows, err := r.db.conn.QueryContext(ctx, query)
-	var createdTSUnix int64
-
-	err := r.db.conn.QueryRowContext(ctx, query, hash).Scan(
-		&blob.BlobHash,
-		&createdTSUnix,
-	)
-
-	if err == sql.ErrNoRows {
-		return nil, nil
-	}
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("querying blob: %w", err)
-	}
-
-	blob.CreatedTS = time.Unix(createdTSUnix, 0)
-	return &blob, nil
-}
-
-func (r *BlobRepository) List(ctx context.Context, limit, offset int) ([]*Blob, error) {
-	query := `
-		SELECT blob_hash, created_ts
-		FROM blobs
-		ORDER BY blob_hash
-		LIMIT ? OFFSET ?
-	`
-
-	rows, err := r.db.conn.QueryContext(ctx, query, limit, offset)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("querying blobs: %w", err)
 	}
-	defer CloseRows(rows)
 
-	var blobs []*Blob
+	defer func() { _ = rows.Close() }()
+
+	out := make(map[string]*Blob)
+
 	for rows.Next() {
-		var blob Blob
+		var (
-		var createdTSUnix int64
+			blob                           Blob
+			createdTSUnix                  int64
+			finishedTSUnix, uploadedTSUnix sql.NullInt64
+		)
 
 		err := rows.Scan(
-			&blob.BlobHash,
+			&blob.ID,
+			&blob.Hash,
 			&createdTSUnix,
+			&finishedTSUnix,
+			&blob.UncompressedSize,
+			&blob.CompressedSize,
+			&uploadedTSUnix,
 		)
 		if err != nil {
 			return nil, fmt.Errorf("scanning blob: %w", err)
 		}
 
-		blob.CreatedTS = time.Unix(createdTSUnix, 0)
+		blob.CreatedTS = time.Unix(createdTSUnix, 0).UTC()
-		blobs = append(blobs, &blob)
+		if finishedTSUnix.Valid {
+			ts := time.Unix(finishedTSUnix.Int64, 0).UTC()
+			blob.FinishedTS = &ts
 		}
 
-	return blobs, rows.Err()
+		if uploadedTSUnix.Valid {
+			ts := time.Unix(uploadedTSUnix.Int64, 0).UTC()
+			blob.UploadedTS = &ts
+		}
+
+		out[blob.ID.String()] = &blob
+	}
+
+	return out, rows.Err()
+}
+
+// UpdateFinished updates a blob when it's finalized
+func (r *BlobRepository) UpdateFinished(
+	ctx context.Context,
+	tx *sql.Tx,
+	id string,
+	hash string,
+	uncompressedSize, compressedSize int64,
+) error {
+	query := `
+		UPDATE blobs 
+		SET blob_hash = ?, finished_ts = ?, uncompressed_size = ?, compressed_size = ?
+		WHERE id = ?
+	`
+
+	now := time.Now().UTC().Unix()
+
+	var err error
+	if tx != nil {
+		_, err = tx.ExecContext(ctx, query, hash, now, uncompressedSize, compressedSize, id)
+	} else {
+		_, err = r.db.ExecWithLog(ctx, query, hash, now, uncompressedSize, compressedSize, id)
+	}
+
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("updating blob: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	return nil
+}
+
+// UpdateUploaded marks a blob as uploaded and records the size of the
+// stored object as its compressed size. That size can differ from the
+// local copy's when an identical blob was already stored with another
+// compression level or other recipients.
+func (r *BlobRepository) UpdateUploaded(
+	ctx context.Context, tx *sql.Tx, id string, storedSize int64,
+) error {
+	query := `
+		UPDATE blobs
+		SET uploaded_ts = ?, compressed_size = ?
+		WHERE id = ?
+	`
+
+	now := time.Now().UTC().Unix()
+
+	var err error
+	if tx != nil {
+		_, err = tx.ExecContext(ctx, query, now, storedSize, id)
+	} else {
+		_, err = r.db.ExecWithLog(ctx, query, now, storedSize, id)
+	}
+
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("marking blob as uploaded: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	return nil
+}
+
+// DeleteOrphaned deletes blobs that are not referenced by any snapshot
+func (r *BlobRepository) DeleteOrphaned(ctx context.Context) error {
+	query := `
+		DELETE FROM blobs 
+		WHERE NOT EXISTS (
+			SELECT 1 FROM snapshot_blobs 
+			WHERE snapshot_blobs.blob_id = blobs.id
+		)
+	`
+
+	result, err := r.db.ExecWithLog(ctx, query)
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("deleting orphaned blobs: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	rowsAffected, _ := result.RowsAffected()
+	if rowsAffected > 0 {
+		log.Debug("Deleted orphaned blobs", "count", rowsAffected)
+	}
+
+	return nil
+}
+
+// DeleteUnuploaded deletes blob rows whose upload never completed
+// (uploaded_ts IS NULL) and returns how many were removed. Their
+// blob_chunks rows are removed by the ON DELETE CASCADE foreign key.
+// A blob is only ever attached to a snapshot once its upload has been
+// recorded, so an un-uploaded blob is never referenced by a completed
+// snapshot: dropping it discards chunk rows that point at data which
+// was never stored remotely, so the affected content is re-chunked and
+// re-uploaded on the next run.
+func (r *BlobRepository) DeleteUnuploaded(ctx context.Context) (int64, error) {
+	query := `DELETE FROM blobs WHERE uploaded_ts IS NULL`
+
+	result, err := r.db.ExecWithLog(ctx, query)
+	if err != nil {
+		return 0, fmt.Errorf("deleting un-uploaded blobs: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	rowsAffected, _ := result.RowsAffected()
+	if rowsAffected > 0 {
+		log.Debug("Deleted un-uploaded blobs", "count", rowsAffected)
+	}
+
+	return rowsAffected, nil
+}
+
+// getOne fetches a single blob row matched on the given column, or
+// (nil, nil) when no row matches.
+func (r *BlobRepository) getOne(
+	ctx context.Context, column, value string,
+) (*Blob, error) {
+	query := `
+		SELECT id, blob_hash, created_ts, finished_ts,
+			uncompressed_size, compressed_size, uploaded_ts
+		FROM blobs
+		WHERE ` + column + ` = ?`
+
+	var (
+		blob                           Blob
+		createdTSUnix                  int64
+		finishedTSUnix, uploadedTSUnix sql.NullInt64
+	)
+
+	err := r.db.conn.QueryRowContext(ctx, query, value).Scan(
+		&blob.ID,
+		&blob.Hash,
+		&createdTSUnix,
+		&finishedTSUnix,
+		&blob.UncompressedSize,
+		&blob.CompressedSize,
+		&uploadedTSUnix,
+	)
+
+	if errors.Is(err, sql.ErrNoRows) {
+		return nil, nil //nolint:nilnil // nil,nil signals not-found; callers check nil
+	}
+
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("querying blob: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	blob.CreatedTS = time.Unix(createdTSUnix, 0).UTC()
+	if finishedTSUnix.Valid {
+		ts := time.Unix(finishedTSUnix.Int64, 0).UTC()
+		blob.FinishedTS = &ts
+	}
+
+	if uploadedTSUnix.Valid {
+		ts := time.Unix(uploadedTSUnix.Int64, 0).UTC()
+		blob.UploadedTS = &ts
+	}
+
+	return &blob, nil
 }

internal/database/blobs_test.go

@@ -1,21 +1,27 @@
-package database
+package database_test
 
 import (
 	"context"
 	"testing"
 	"time"
+
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/database"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/types"
 )
 
 func TestBlobRepository(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
 	db, cleanup := setupTestDB(t)
 	defer cleanup()
 
 	ctx := context.Background()
-	repo := NewBlobRepository(db)
+	repo := database.NewBlobRepository(db)
 
 	// Test Create
-	blob := &Blob{
+	blob := &database.Blob{
-		BlobHash:  "blobhash123",
+		ID:        types.NewBlobID(),
+		Hash:      types.BlobHash("blobhash123"),
 		CreatedTS: time.Now().Truncate(time.Second),
 	}
 
@@ -25,65 +31,134 @@ func TestBlobRepository(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 
 	// Test GetByHash
-	retrieved, err := repo.GetByHash(ctx, blob.BlobHash)
+	retrieved, err := repo.GetByHash(ctx, blob.Hash.String())
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("failed to get blob: %v", err)
 	}
+
 	if retrieved == nil {
 		t.Fatal("expected blob, got nil")
 	}
-	if retrieved.BlobHash != blob.BlobHash {
+
-		t.Errorf("blob hash mismatch: got %s, want %s", retrieved.BlobHash, blob.BlobHash)
+	if retrieved.Hash != blob.Hash {
-	}
+		t.Errorf("blob hash mismatch: got %s, want %s", retrieved.Hash, blob.Hash)
-	if !retrieved.CreatedTS.Equal(blob.CreatedTS) {
-		t.Errorf("created timestamp mismatch: got %v, want %v", retrieved.CreatedTS, blob.CreatedTS)
 	}
 
-	// Test List
+	if !retrieved.CreatedTS.Equal(blob.CreatedTS) {
-	blob2 := &Blob{
+		t.Errorf("created timestamp mismatch: got %v, want %v",
-		BlobHash:  "blobhash456",
+			retrieved.CreatedTS, blob.CreatedTS)
+	}
+
+	// Test GetByID
+	retrievedByID, err := repo.GetByID(ctx, blob.ID.String())
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to get blob by ID: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	if retrievedByID == nil {
+		t.Fatal("expected blob, got nil")
+	}
+
+	if retrievedByID.ID != blob.ID {
+		t.Errorf("blob ID mismatch: got %s, want %s", retrievedByID.ID, blob.ID)
+	}
+
+	// Test with second blob
+	blob2 := &database.Blob{
+		ID:        types.NewBlobID(),
+		Hash:      types.BlobHash("blobhash456"),
 		CreatedTS: time.Now().Truncate(time.Second),
 	}
+
 	err = repo.Create(ctx, nil, blob2)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("failed to create second blob: %v", err)
 	}
-
-	blobs, err := repo.List(ctx, 10, 0)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("failed to list blobs: %v", err)
-	}
-	if len(blobs) != 2 {
-		t.Errorf("expected 2 blobs, got %d", len(blobs))
 }
 
-	// Test pagination
+func TestBlobRepositoryUpdates(t *testing.T) {
-	blobs, err = repo.List(ctx, 1, 0)
+	t.Parallel()
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("failed to list blobs with limit: %v", err)
-	}
-	if len(blobs) != 1 {
-		t.Errorf("expected 1 blob with limit, got %d", len(blobs))
-	}
 
-	blobs, err = repo.List(ctx, 1, 1)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("failed to list blobs with offset: %v", err)
-	}
-	if len(blobs) != 1 {
-		t.Errorf("expected 1 blob with offset, got %d", len(blobs))
-	}
-}
-
-func TestBlobRepositoryDuplicate(t *testing.T) {
 	db, cleanup := setupTestDB(t)
 	defer cleanup()
 
 	ctx := context.Background()
-	repo := NewBlobRepository(db)
+	repo := database.NewBlobRepository(db)
 
-	blob := &Blob{
+	blob := &database.Blob{
-		BlobHash:  "duplicate_blob",
+		ID:        types.NewBlobID(),
+		Hash:      types.BlobHash("blobhash123"),
+		CreatedTS: time.Now().Truncate(time.Second),
+	}
+
+	err := repo.Create(ctx, nil, blob)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to create blob: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	// Test UpdateFinished
+	now := time.Now()
+
+	err = repo.UpdateFinished(ctx, nil, blob.ID.String(), blob.Hash.String(), 1000, 500)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to update blob as finished: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	// Verify update
+	updated, err := repo.GetByID(ctx, blob.ID.String())
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to get updated blob: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	if updated.FinishedTS == nil {
+		t.Fatal("expected finished timestamp to be set")
+	}
+
+	if updated.UncompressedSize != 1000 {
+		t.Errorf("expected uncompressed size 1000, got %d", updated.UncompressedSize)
+	}
+
+	if updated.CompressedSize != 500 {
+		t.Errorf("expected compressed size 500, got %d", updated.CompressedSize)
+	}
+
+	// Test UpdateUploaded, with a stored object larger than the local copy
+	err = repo.UpdateUploaded(ctx, nil, blob.ID.String(), 600)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to update blob as uploaded: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	// Verify upload update
+	uploaded, err := repo.GetByID(ctx, blob.ID.String())
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to get uploaded blob: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	if uploaded.UploadedTS == nil {
+		t.Fatal("expected uploaded timestamp to be set")
+	}
+	// Allow 1 second tolerance for timestamp comparison
+	if uploaded.UploadedTS.Before(now.Add(-1 * time.Second)) {
+		t.Error("uploaded timestamp should be around test time")
+	}
+
+	if uploaded.CompressedSize != 600 {
+		t.Errorf("expected the stored size 600, got %d", uploaded.CompressedSize)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestBlobRepositoryDuplicate(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	db, cleanup := setupTestDB(t)
+	defer cleanup()
+
+	ctx := context.Background()
+	repo := database.NewBlobRepository(db)
+
+	blob := &database.Blob{
+		ID:        types.NewBlobID(),
+		Hash:      types.BlobHash("duplicate_blob"),
 		CreatedTS: time.Now().Truncate(time.Second),
 	}
 

internal/database/cascade_debug_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,165 @@
+//nolint:testpackage // inspects the unexported database connection
+package database
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"fmt"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/types"
+)
+
+// createCascadeFixtures creates a file with three chunk mappings for the
+// cascade-delete test.
+func createCascadeFixtures(t *testing.T, repos *Repositories) *File {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	ctx := context.Background()
+
+	file := &File{
+		Path:  "/cascade-test.txt",
+		MTime: time.Now().Truncate(time.Second),
+		Size:  1024,
+		Mode:  0644,
+		UID:   1000,
+		GID:   1000,
+	}
+
+	err := repos.Files.Create(ctx, nil, file)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to create file: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	t.Logf("Created file with ID: %s", file.ID)
+
+	// Create chunks and file-chunk mappings
+	for i := range 3 {
+		chunk := &Chunk{
+			ChunkHash: types.ChunkHash(fmt.Sprintf("cascade-chunk-%d", i)),
+			Size:      1024,
+		}
+
+		err = repos.Chunks.Create(ctx, nil, chunk)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("failed to create chunk: %v", err)
+		}
+
+		fc := &FileChunk{
+			FileID:    file.ID,
+			Idx:       i,
+			ChunkHash: chunk.ChunkHash,
+		}
+
+		err = repos.FileChunks.Create(ctx, nil, fc)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("failed to create file chunk: %v", err)
+		}
+
+		t.Logf("Created file chunk mapping: file_id=%s, idx=%d, chunk=%s",
+			fc.FileID, fc.Idx, fc.ChunkHash)
+	}
+
+	return file
+}
+
+// logCascadeDebugInfo logs foreign-key state and the file_chunks table
+// definition for cascade-delete debugging.
+func logCascadeDebugInfo(ctx context.Context, t *testing.T, db *DB) {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	// Check if foreign keys are enabled
+	var fkEnabled int
+
+	err := db.conn.QueryRowContext(ctx, "PRAGMA foreign_keys").Scan(&fkEnabled)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+
+	t.Logf("Foreign keys enabled: %d", fkEnabled)
+
+	// Check the foreign key constraint
+	var fkInfo string
+
+	err = db.conn.QueryRowContext(ctx, `
+		SELECT sql FROM sqlite_master
+		WHERE type='table' AND name='file_chunks'
+	`).Scan(&fkInfo)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+
+	t.Logf("file_chunks table definition:\n%s", fkInfo)
+}
+
+// TestCascadeDeleteDebug tests cascade delete with debug output
+func TestCascadeDeleteDebug(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	db, cleanup := setupTestDB(t)
+	defer cleanup()
+
+	ctx := context.Background()
+	repos := NewRepositories(db)
+
+	logCascadeDebugInfo(ctx, t, db)
+
+	file := createCascadeFixtures(t, repos)
+
+	// Verify file chunks exist
+	fileChunks, err := repos.FileChunks.GetByFileID(ctx, file.ID)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+
+	t.Logf("File chunks before delete: %d", len(fileChunks))
+
+	// Delete the file
+	t.Log("Deleting file...")
+
+	err = repos.Files.DeleteByID(ctx, nil, file.ID)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to delete file: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	// Verify file is gone
+	deletedFile, err := repos.Files.GetByID(ctx, file.ID)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+
+	if deletedFile != nil {
+		t.Error("file should have been deleted")
+	} else {
+		t.Log("File was successfully deleted")
+	}
+
+	// Check file chunks after delete
+	fileChunks, err = repos.FileChunks.GetByFileID(ctx, file.ID)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+
+	t.Logf("File chunks after delete: %d", len(fileChunks))
+
+	// Manually check the database
+	var count int
+
+	err = db.conn.QueryRowContext(ctx,
+		"SELECT COUNT(*) FROM file_chunks WHERE file_id = ?", file.ID,
+	).Scan(&count)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+
+	t.Logf("Manual count of file_chunks for deleted file: %d", count)
+
+	if len(fileChunks) != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("expected 0 file chunks after cascade delete, got %d", len(fileChunks))
+		// List the remaining chunks
+		for _, fc := range fileChunks {
+			t.Logf("Remaining chunk: file_id=%s, idx=%d, chunk=%s",
+				fc.FileID, fc.Idx, fc.ChunkHash)
+		}
+	}
+}

internal/database/chunk_files.go

@@ -4,28 +4,39 @@ import (
 	"context"
 	"database/sql"
 	"fmt"
+	"strings"
+
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/types"
 )
 
+// ChunkFileRepository provides access to the chunk_files table, the
+// reverse mapping from chunks to the files that contain them.
 type ChunkFileRepository struct {
 	db *DB
 }
 
+// NewChunkFileRepository creates a ChunkFileRepository backed by db.
 func NewChunkFileRepository(db *DB) *ChunkFileRepository {
 	return &ChunkFileRepository{db: db}
 }
 
-func (r *ChunkFileRepository) Create(ctx context.Context, tx *sql.Tx, cf *ChunkFile) error {
+// Create inserts a chunk_files row (idempotently), using tx when non-nil.
+func (r *ChunkFileRepository) Create(
+	ctx context.Context, tx *sql.Tx, cf *ChunkFile,
+) error {
 	query := `
-		INSERT INTO chunk_files (chunk_hash, file_path, file_offset, length)
+		INSERT INTO chunk_files (chunk_hash, file_id, file_offset, length)
 		VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?)
-		ON CONFLICT(chunk_hash, file_path) DO NOTHING
+		ON CONFLICT(chunk_hash, file_id) DO NOTHING
 	`
 
 	var err error
 	if tx != nil {
-		_, err = tx.ExecContext(ctx, query, cf.ChunkHash, cf.FilePath, cf.FileOffset, cf.Length)
+		_, err = tx.ExecContext(ctx, query,
+			cf.ChunkHash.String(), cf.FileID.String(), cf.FileOffset, cf.Length)
 	} else {
-		_, err = r.db.ExecWithLock(ctx, query, cf.ChunkHash, cf.FilePath, cf.FileOffset, cf.Length)
+		_, err = r.db.ExecWithLog(ctx, query,
+			cf.ChunkHash.String(), cf.FileID.String(), cf.FileOffset, cf.Length)
 	}
 
 	if err != nil {
@@ -35,52 +46,206 @@ func (r *ChunkFileRepository) Create(ctx context.Context, tx *sql.Tx, cf *ChunkF
 	return nil
 }
 
-func (r *ChunkFileRepository) GetByChunkHash(ctx context.Context, chunkHash string) ([]*ChunkFile, error) {
+// GetByChunkHash returns all chunk_files rows for the given chunk hash.
+func (r *ChunkFileRepository) GetByChunkHash(
+	ctx context.Context, chunkHash types.ChunkHash,
+) ([]*ChunkFile, error) {
 	query := `
-		SELECT chunk_hash, file_path, file_offset, length
+		SELECT chunk_hash, file_id, file_offset, length
 		FROM chunk_files
 		WHERE chunk_hash = ?
 	`
 
-	rows, err := r.db.conn.QueryContext(ctx, query, chunkHash)
+	rows, err := r.db.conn.QueryContext(ctx, query, chunkHash.String())
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("querying chunk files: %w", err)
 	}
-	defer CloseRows(rows)
 
-	var chunkFiles []*ChunkFile
+	defer func() { _ = rows.Close() }()
-	for rows.Next() {
+
-		var cf ChunkFile
+	return r.scanChunkFiles(rows)
-		err := rows.Scan(&cf.ChunkHash, &cf.FilePath, &cf.FileOffset, &cf.Length)
-		if err != nil {
-			return nil, fmt.Errorf("scanning chunk file: %w", err)
-		}
-		chunkFiles = append(chunkFiles, &cf)
 }
 
-	return chunkFiles, rows.Err()
+// GetByFilePath returns all chunk_files rows for the file at the given path.
-}
+func (r *ChunkFileRepository) GetByFilePath(
-
+	ctx context.Context, filePath string,
-func (r *ChunkFileRepository) GetByFilePath(ctx context.Context, filePath string) ([]*ChunkFile, error) {
+) ([]*ChunkFile, error) {
 	query := `
-		SELECT chunk_hash, file_path, file_offset, length
+		SELECT cf.chunk_hash, cf.file_id, cf.file_offset, cf.length
-		FROM chunk_files
+		FROM chunk_files cf
-		WHERE file_path = ?
+		JOIN files f ON cf.file_id = f.id
+		WHERE f.path = ?
 	`
 
 	rows, err := r.db.conn.QueryContext(ctx, query, filePath)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("querying chunk files: %w", err)
 	}
-	defer CloseRows(rows)
 
+	defer func() { _ = rows.Close() }()
+
+	return r.scanChunkFiles(rows)
+}
+
+// GetByFileID retrieves chunk files by file ID
+func (r *ChunkFileRepository) GetByFileID(
+	ctx context.Context, fileID types.FileID,
+) ([]*ChunkFile, error) {
+	query := `
+		SELECT chunk_hash, file_id, file_offset, length
+		FROM chunk_files
+		WHERE file_id = ?
+	`
+
+	rows, err := r.db.conn.QueryContext(ctx, query, fileID.String())
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("querying chunk files: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	defer func() { _ = rows.Close() }()
+
+	return r.scanChunkFiles(rows)
+}
+
+// DeleteByFileID deletes all chunk_files entries for a given file ID
+func (r *ChunkFileRepository) DeleteByFileID(
+	ctx context.Context, tx *sql.Tx, fileID types.FileID,
+) error {
+	query := `DELETE FROM chunk_files WHERE file_id = ?`
+
+	var err error
+	if tx != nil {
+		_, err = tx.ExecContext(ctx, query, fileID.String())
+	} else {
+		_, err = r.db.ExecWithLog(ctx, query, fileID.String())
+	}
+
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("deleting chunk files: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	return nil
+}
+
+// DeleteByFileIDs deletes all chunk_files for multiple files in a single statement.
+//
+//nolint:dupl // symmetric implementation for a parallel association table
+func (r *ChunkFileRepository) DeleteByFileIDs(
+	ctx context.Context, tx *sql.Tx, fileIDs []types.FileID,
+) error {
+	if len(fileIDs) == 0 {
+		return nil
+	}
+
+	// Batch at 500 to stay within SQLite's variable limit
+	const batchSize = 500
+
+	for i := 0; i < len(fileIDs); i += batchSize {
+		end := min(i+batchSize, len(fileIDs))
+
+		batch := fileIDs[i:end]
+
+		//nolint:gosec // G202: concatenates constant SQL and "?" placeholders only
+		query := "DELETE FROM chunk_files WHERE file_id IN (?" +
+			repeatPlaceholder(len(batch)-1) + ")"
+
+		args := make([]any, len(batch))
+		for j, id := range batch {
+			args[j] = id.String()
+		}
+
+		var err error
+		if tx != nil {
+			_, err = tx.ExecContext(ctx, query, args...)
+		} else {
+			_, err = r.db.ExecWithLog(ctx, query, args...)
+		}
+
+		if err != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("batch deleting chunk_files: %w", err)
+		}
+	}
+
+	return nil
+}
+
+// CreateBatch inserts multiple chunk_files in a single statement for efficiency.
+func (r *ChunkFileRepository) CreateBatch(
+	ctx context.Context, tx *sql.Tx, cfs []ChunkFile,
+) error {
+	if len(cfs) == 0 {
+		return nil
+	}
+
+	// Each chunk_files row binds this many SQL variables.
+	const chunkFileCols = 4
+
+	// Batch at 200 rows to be safe with SQLite's variable limit.
+	const batchSize = 200
+
+	for i := 0; i < len(cfs); i += batchSize {
+		end := min(i+batchSize, len(cfs))
+
+		batch := cfs[i:end]
+
+		query := "INSERT INTO chunk_files (chunk_hash, file_id, file_offset, length) VALUES "
+
+		args := make([]any, 0, len(batch)*chunkFileCols)
+
+		var querySb183 strings.Builder
+
+		for j, cf := range batch {
+			if j > 0 {
+				querySb183.WriteString(", ")
+			}
+
+			querySb183.WriteString("(?, ?, ?, ?)")
+
+			args = append(args,
+				cf.ChunkHash.String(), cf.FileID.String(), cf.FileOffset, cf.Length)
+		}
+
+		query += querySb183.String()
+
+		query += " ON CONFLICT(chunk_hash, file_id) DO NOTHING"
+
+		var err error
+		if tx != nil {
+			_, err = tx.ExecContext(ctx, query, args...)
+		} else {
+			_, err = r.db.ExecWithLog(ctx, query, args...)
+		}
+
+		if err != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("batch inserting chunk_files: %w", err)
+		}
+	}
+
+	return nil
+}
+
+// scanChunkFiles is a helper that scans chunk file rows.
+func (r *ChunkFileRepository) scanChunkFiles(rows *sql.Rows) ([]*ChunkFile, error) {
 	var chunkFiles []*ChunkFile
+
 	for rows.Next() {
-		var cf ChunkFile
+		var (
-		err := rows.Scan(&cf.ChunkHash, &cf.FilePath, &cf.FileOffset, &cf.Length)
+			cf                      ChunkFile
+			chunkHashStr, fileIDStr string
+		)
+
+		err := rows.Scan(&chunkHashStr, &fileIDStr, &cf.FileOffset, &cf.Length)
 		if err != nil {
 			return nil, fmt.Errorf("scanning chunk file: %w", err)
 		}
+
+		cf.ChunkHash = types.ChunkHash(chunkHashStr)
+
+		cf.FileID, err = types.ParseFileID(fileIDStr)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("parsing file ID: %w", err)
+		}
+
 		chunkFiles = append(chunkFiles, &cf)
 	}
 

internal/database/chunk_files_test.go

@@ -1,21 +1,93 @@
-package database
+package database_test
 
 import (
 	"context"
 	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/database"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/types"
 )
 
+const chunk4Hash = "chunk4"
+
+// verifyChunkFilePair asserts that the chunk-file rows cover both test
+// files at their expected offsets.
+func verifyChunkFilePair(
+	t *testing.T, chunkFiles []*database.ChunkFile,
+	file1ID, file2ID types.FileID,
+) {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	foundFile1 := false
+	foundFile2 := false
+
+	for _, cf := range chunkFiles {
+		if cf.FileID == file1ID && cf.FileOffset == 0 {
+			foundFile1 = true
+		}
+
+		if cf.FileID == file2ID && cf.FileOffset == 2048 {
+			foundFile2 = true
+		}
+	}
+
+	if !foundFile1 || !foundFile2 {
+		t.Error("not all expected files found")
+	}
+}
+
+// createChunkFileTestFiles creates the two files used by the chunk-file
+// repository tests.
+func createChunkFileTestFiles(
+	t *testing.T, fileRepo *database.FileRepository,
+) (*database.File, *database.File) {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	testTime := time.Now().Truncate(time.Second)
+	file1 := &database.File{
+		Path:       testFilePath1,
+		MTime:      testTime,
+		Size:       1024,
+		Mode:       0644,
+		UID:        1000,
+		GID:        1000,
+		LinkTarget: "",
+	}
+	file2 := &database.File{
+		Path:       testFilePath2,
+		MTime:      testTime,
+		Size:       1024,
+		Mode:       0644,
+		UID:        1000,
+		GID:        1000,
+		LinkTarget: "",
+	}
+
+	mustCreateFile(t, fileRepo, file1)
+	mustCreateFile(t, fileRepo, file2)
+
+	return file1, file2
+}
+
 func TestChunkFileRepository(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
 	db, cleanup := setupTestDB(t)
 	defer cleanup()
 
 	ctx := context.Background()
-	repo := NewChunkFileRepository(db)
+	repo := database.NewChunkFileRepository(db)
+	fileRepo := database.NewFileRepository(db)
+	repos := database.NewRepositories(db)
+
+	file1, file2 := createChunkFileTestFiles(t, fileRepo)
+	mustCreateChunks(t, repos, chunk1Hash)
 
 	// Test Create
-	cf1 := &ChunkFile{
+	cf1 := &database.ChunkFile{
-		ChunkHash:  "chunk1",
+		ChunkHash:  types.ChunkHash(chunk1Hash),
-		FilePath:   "/file1.txt",
+		FileID:     file1.ID,
 		FileOffset: 0,
 		Length:     1024,
 	}
@@ -26,50 +98,42 @@ func TestChunkFileRepository(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 
 	// Add same chunk in different file (deduplication scenario)
-	cf2 := &ChunkFile{
+	cf2 := &database.ChunkFile{
-		ChunkHash:  "chunk1",
+		ChunkHash:  types.ChunkHash(chunk1Hash),
-		FilePath:   "/file2.txt",
+		FileID:     file2.ID,
 		FileOffset: 2048,
 		Length:     1024,
 	}
+
 	err = repo.Create(ctx, nil, cf2)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("failed to create second chunk file: %v", err)
 	}
 
 	// Test GetByChunkHash
-	chunkFiles, err := repo.GetByChunkHash(ctx, "chunk1")
+	chunkFiles, err := repo.GetByChunkHash(ctx, chunk1Hash)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("failed to get chunk files: %v", err)
 	}
+
 	if len(chunkFiles) != 2 {
 		t.Errorf("expected 2 files for chunk, got %d", len(chunkFiles))
 	}
 
 	// Verify both files are returned
-	foundFile1 := false
+	verifyChunkFilePair(t, chunkFiles, file1.ID, file2.ID)
-	foundFile2 := false
+
-	for _, cf := range chunkFiles {
+	// Test GetByFileID
-		if cf.FilePath == "/file1.txt" && cf.FileOffset == 0 {
+	chunkFiles, err = repo.GetByFileID(ctx, file1.ID)
-			foundFile1 = true
+	if err != nil {
-		}
+		t.Fatalf("failed to get chunks by file ID: %v", err)
-		if cf.FilePath == "/file2.txt" && cf.FileOffset == 2048 {
-			foundFile2 = true
-		}
-	}
-	if !foundFile1 || !foundFile2 {
-		t.Error("not all expected files found")
 	}
 
-	// Test GetByFilePath
-	chunkFiles, err = repo.GetByFilePath(ctx, "/file1.txt")
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("failed to get chunks by file path: %v", err)
-	}
 	if len(chunkFiles) != 1 {
 		t.Errorf("expected 1 chunk for file, got %d", len(chunkFiles))
 	}
-	if chunkFiles[0].ChunkHash != "chunk1" {
+
+	if chunkFiles[0].ChunkHash != types.ChunkHash(chunk1Hash) {
 		t.Errorf("wrong chunk hash: expected chunk1, got %s", chunkFiles[0].ChunkHash)
 	}
 
@@ -81,29 +145,53 @@ func TestChunkFileRepository(t *testing.T) {
 }
 
 func TestChunkFileRepositoryComplexDeduplication(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
 	db, cleanup := setupTestDB(t)
 	defer cleanup()
 
 	ctx := context.Background()
-	repo := NewChunkFileRepository(db)
+	repo := database.NewChunkFileRepository(db)
+	fileRepo := database.NewFileRepository(db)
+	repos := database.NewRepositories(db)
+
+	// Create test files
+	testTime := time.Now().Truncate(time.Second)
+	file1 := &database.File{
+		Path: testFilePath1, MTime: testTime, Size: 3072,
+		Mode: 0644, UID: 1000, GID: 1000,
+	}
+	file2 := &database.File{
+		Path: testFilePath2, MTime: testTime, Size: 3072,
+		Mode: 0644, UID: 1000, GID: 1000,
+	}
+	file3 := &database.File{
+		Path: "/file3.txt", MTime: testTime, Size: 2048,
+		Mode: 0644, UID: 1000, GID: 1000,
+	}
+
+	mustCreateFile(t, fileRepo, file1)
+	mustCreateFile(t, fileRepo, file2)
+	mustCreateFile(t, fileRepo, file3)
+	mustCreateChunks(t, repos, chunk1Hash, chunk2Hash, chunk3Hash, chunk4Hash)
 
 	// Simulate a scenario where multiple files share chunks
 	// File1: chunk1, chunk2, chunk3
 	// File2: chunk2, chunk3, chunk4
 	// File3: chunk1, chunk4
 
-	chunkFiles := []ChunkFile{
+	chunkFiles := []database.ChunkFile{
 		// File1
-		{ChunkHash: "chunk1", FilePath: "/file1.txt", FileOffset: 0, Length: 1024},
+		{ChunkHash: chunk1Hash, FileID: file1.ID, FileOffset: 0, Length: 1024},
-		{ChunkHash: "chunk2", FilePath: "/file1.txt", FileOffset: 1024, Length: 1024},
+		{ChunkHash: chunk2Hash, FileID: file1.ID, FileOffset: 1024, Length: 1024},
-		{ChunkHash: "chunk3", FilePath: "/file1.txt", FileOffset: 2048, Length: 1024},
+		{ChunkHash: chunk3Hash, FileID: file1.ID, FileOffset: 2048, Length: 1024},
 		// File2
-		{ChunkHash: "chunk2", FilePath: "/file2.txt", FileOffset: 0, Length: 1024},
+		{ChunkHash: chunk2Hash, FileID: file2.ID, FileOffset: 0, Length: 1024},
-		{ChunkHash: "chunk3", FilePath: "/file2.txt", FileOffset: 1024, Length: 1024},
+		{ChunkHash: chunk3Hash, FileID: file2.ID, FileOffset: 1024, Length: 1024},
-		{ChunkHash: "chunk4", FilePath: "/file2.txt", FileOffset: 2048, Length: 1024},
+		{ChunkHash: chunk4Hash, FileID: file2.ID, FileOffset: 2048, Length: 1024},
 		// File3
-		{ChunkHash: "chunk1", FilePath: "/file3.txt", FileOffset: 0, Length: 1024},
+		{ChunkHash: chunk1Hash, FileID: file3.ID, FileOffset: 0, Length: 1024},
-		{ChunkHash: "chunk4", FilePath: "/file3.txt", FileOffset: 1024, Length: 1024},
+		{ChunkHash: chunk4Hash, FileID: file3.ID, FileOffset: 1024, Length: 1024},
 	}
 
 	for _, cf := range chunkFiles {
@@ -114,29 +202,32 @@ func TestChunkFileRepositoryComplexDeduplication(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 
 	// Test chunk1 (used by file1 and file3)
-	files, err := repo.GetByChunkHash(ctx, "chunk1")
+	files, err := repo.GetByChunkHash(ctx, chunk1Hash)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("failed to get files for chunk1: %v", err)
 	}
+
 	if len(files) != 2 {
 		t.Errorf("expected 2 files for chunk1, got %d", len(files))
 	}
 
 	// Test chunk2 (used by file1 and file2)
-	files, err = repo.GetByChunkHash(ctx, "chunk2")
+	files, err = repo.GetByChunkHash(ctx, chunk2Hash)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("failed to get files for chunk2: %v", err)
 	}
+
 	if len(files) != 2 {
 		t.Errorf("expected 2 files for chunk2, got %d", len(files))
 	}
 
 	// Test file2 chunks
-	chunks, err := repo.GetByFilePath(ctx, "/file2.txt")
+	file2Chunks, err := repo.GetByFileID(ctx, file2.ID)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("failed to get chunks for file2: %v", err)
 	}
-	if len(chunks) != 3 {
+
-		t.Errorf("expected 3 chunks for file2, got %d", len(chunks))
+	if len(file2Chunks) != 3 {
+		t.Errorf("expected 3 chunks for file2, got %d", len(file2Chunks))
 	}
 }

internal/database/chunks.go

@@ -3,29 +3,37 @@ package database
 import (
 	"context"
 	"database/sql"
+	"errors"
 	"fmt"
+	"strings"
+
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/log"
 )
 
+// ChunkRepository provides access to the chunks table, which tracks
+// content-defined chunks by hash and size.
 type ChunkRepository struct {
 	db *DB
 }
 
+// NewChunkRepository creates a ChunkRepository backed by db.
 func NewChunkRepository(db *DB) *ChunkRepository {
 	return &ChunkRepository{db: db}
 }
 
+// Create inserts a chunk row (idempotently), using tx when non-nil.
 func (r *ChunkRepository) Create(ctx context.Context, tx *sql.Tx, chunk *Chunk) error {
 	query := `
-		INSERT INTO chunks (chunk_hash, sha256, size)
+		INSERT INTO chunks (chunk_hash, size)
-		VALUES (?, ?, ?)
+		VALUES (?, ?)
 		ON CONFLICT(chunk_hash) DO NOTHING
 	`
 
 	var err error
 	if tx != nil {
-		_, err = tx.ExecContext(ctx, query, chunk.ChunkHash, chunk.SHA256, chunk.Size)
+		_, err = tx.ExecContext(ctx, query, chunk.ChunkHash, chunk.Size)
 	} else {
-		_, err = r.db.ExecWithLock(ctx, query, chunk.ChunkHash, chunk.SHA256, chunk.Size)
+		_, err = r.db.ExecWithLog(ctx, query, chunk.ChunkHash, chunk.Size)
 	}
 
 	if err != nil {
@@ -35,9 +43,11 @@ func (r *ChunkRepository) Create(ctx context.Context, tx *sql.Tx, chunk *Chunk)
 	return nil
 }
 
+// GetByHash returns the chunk with the given hash, or nil if it is not
+// known to the index.
 func (r *ChunkRepository) GetByHash(ctx context.Context, hash string) (*Chunk, error) {
 	query := `
-		SELECT chunk_hash, sha256, size
+		SELECT chunk_hash, size
 		FROM chunks
 		WHERE chunk_hash = ?
 	`
@@ -46,13 +56,13 @@ func (r *ChunkRepository) GetByHash(ctx context.Context, hash string) (*Chunk, e
 
 	err := r.db.conn.QueryRowContext(ctx, query, hash).Scan(
 		&chunk.ChunkHash,
-		&chunk.SHA256,
 		&chunk.Size,
 	)
 
-	if err == sql.ErrNoRows {
+	if errors.Is(err, sql.ErrNoRows) {
-		return nil, nil
+		return nil, nil //nolint:nilnil // nil,nil signals not-found; callers check nil
 	}
+
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("querying chunk: %w", err)
 	}
@@ -60,39 +70,52 @@ func (r *ChunkRepository) GetByHash(ctx context.Context, hash string) (*Chunk, e
 	return &chunk, nil
 }
 
-func (r *ChunkRepository) GetByHashes(ctx context.Context, hashes []string) ([]*Chunk, error) {
+// GetByHashes returns the chunks whose hashes appear in hashes, ordered by
+// chunk hash. Unknown hashes are silently omitted from the result.
+func (r *ChunkRepository) GetByHashes(
+	ctx context.Context, hashes []string,
+) ([]*Chunk, error) {
 	if len(hashes) == 0 {
 		return nil, nil
 	}
 
 	query := `
-		SELECT chunk_hash, sha256, size
+		SELECT chunk_hash, size
 		FROM chunks
 		WHERE chunk_hash IN (`
 
-	args := make([]interface{}, len(hashes))
+	args := make([]any, len(hashes))
+
+	var querySb75 strings.Builder
+
 	for i, hash := range hashes {
 		if i > 0 {
-			query += ", "
+			querySb75.WriteString(", ")
 		}
-		query += "?"
+
+		querySb75.WriteString("?")
+
 		args[i] = hash
 	}
+
+	query += querySb75.String()
+
 	query += ") ORDER BY chunk_hash"
 
 	rows, err := r.db.conn.QueryContext(ctx, query, args...)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("querying chunks: %w", err)
 	}
-	defer CloseRows(rows)
+
+	defer func() { _ = rows.Close() }()
 
 	var chunks []*Chunk
+
 	for rows.Next() {
 		var chunk Chunk
 
 		err := rows.Scan(
 			&chunk.ChunkHash,
-			&chunk.SHA256,
 			&chunk.Size,
 		)
 		if err != nil {
@@ -105,9 +128,13 @@ func (r *ChunkRepository) GetByHashes(ctx context.Context, hashes []string) ([]*
 	return chunks, rows.Err()
 }
 
-func (r *ChunkRepository) ListUnpacked(ctx context.Context, limit int) ([]*Chunk, error) {
+// ListUnpacked returns up to limit chunks that are not yet stored in any
+// blob, ordered by chunk hash.
+func (r *ChunkRepository) ListUnpacked(
+	ctx context.Context, limit int,
+) ([]*Chunk, error) {
 	query := `
-		SELECT c.chunk_hash, c.sha256, c.size
+		SELECT c.chunk_hash, c.size
 		FROM chunks c
 		LEFT JOIN blob_chunks bc ON c.chunk_hash = bc.chunk_hash
 		WHERE bc.chunk_hash IS NULL
@@ -119,15 +146,16 @@ func (r *ChunkRepository) ListUnpacked(ctx context.Context, limit int) ([]*Chunk
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("querying unpacked chunks: %w", err)
 	}
-	defer CloseRows(rows)
+
+	defer func() { _ = rows.Close() }()
 
 	var chunks []*Chunk
+
 	for rows.Next() {
 		var chunk Chunk
 
 		err := rows.Scan(
 			&chunk.ChunkHash,
-			&chunk.SHA256,
 			&chunk.Size,
 		)
 		if err != nil {
@@ -139,3 +167,30 @@ func (r *ChunkRepository) ListUnpacked(ctx context.Context, limit int) ([]*Chunk
 
 	return chunks, rows.Err()
 }
+
+// DeleteOrphaned deletes chunks that are not referenced by any file or blob
+func (r *ChunkRepository) DeleteOrphaned(ctx context.Context) error {
+	query := `
+		DELETE FROM chunks 
+		WHERE NOT EXISTS (
+			SELECT 1 FROM file_chunks 
+			WHERE file_chunks.chunk_hash = chunks.chunk_hash
+		)
+		AND NOT EXISTS (
+			SELECT 1 FROM blob_chunks 
+			WHERE blob_chunks.chunk_hash = chunks.chunk_hash
+		)
+	`
+
+	result, err := r.db.ExecWithLog(ctx, query)
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("deleting orphaned chunks: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	rowsAffected, _ := result.RowsAffected()
+	if rowsAffected > 0 {
+		log.Debug("Deleted orphaned chunks", "count", rowsAffected)
+	}
+
+	return nil
+}

internal/database/chunks_ext.go

@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+package database
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"fmt"
+)
+
+// List returns every chunk in the index, ordered by chunk hash.
+func (r *ChunkRepository) List(ctx context.Context) ([]*Chunk, error) {
+	return r.list(ctx, `
+		SELECT chunk_hash, size
+		FROM chunks
+		ORDER BY chunk_hash
+	`)
+}
+
+// ListInUploadedBlobs returns the chunks that are stored in a blob whose
+// upload has completed (uploaded_ts set), ordered by chunk hash. These
+// are the only chunks a backup may safely deduplicate against: a chunk
+// recorded solely in a blob that was never uploaded refers to data that
+// is not in remote storage, so trusting it would silently drop that data
+// from later snapshots.
+func (r *ChunkRepository) ListInUploadedBlobs(ctx context.Context) ([]*Chunk, error) {
+	return r.list(ctx, `
+		SELECT DISTINCT c.chunk_hash, c.size
+		FROM chunks c
+		JOIN blob_chunks bc ON c.chunk_hash = bc.chunk_hash
+		JOIN blobs b ON bc.blob_id = b.id
+		WHERE b.uploaded_ts IS NOT NULL
+		ORDER BY c.chunk_hash
+	`)
+}
+
+// list runs a chunk-selecting query and scans the (chunk_hash, size) rows.
+func (r *ChunkRepository) list(ctx context.Context, query string) ([]*Chunk, error) {
+	rows, err := r.db.conn.QueryContext(ctx, query)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("querying chunks: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	defer func() { _ = rows.Close() }()
+
+	var chunks []*Chunk
+
+	for rows.Next() {
+		var chunk Chunk
+
+		err := rows.Scan(
+			&chunk.ChunkHash,
+			&chunk.Size,
+		)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("scanning chunk: %w", err)
+		}
+
+		chunks = append(chunks, &chunk)
+	}
+
+	return chunks, rows.Err()
+}

internal/database/chunks_test.go

@@ -1,21 +1,25 @@
-package database
+package database_test
 
 import (
 	"context"
 	"testing"
+
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/database"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/types"
 )
 
 func TestChunkRepository(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
 	db, cleanup := setupTestDB(t)
 	defer cleanup()
 
 	ctx := context.Background()
-	repo := NewChunkRepository(db)
+	repo := database.NewChunkRepository(db)
 
 	// Test Create
-	chunk := &Chunk{
+	chunk := &database.Chunk{
-		ChunkHash: "chunkhash123",
+		ChunkHash: types.ChunkHash("chunkhash123"),
-		SHA256:    "sha256hash123",
 		Size:      4096,
 	}
 
@@ -25,19 +29,19 @@ func TestChunkRepository(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 
 	// Test GetByHash
-	retrieved, err := repo.GetByHash(ctx, chunk.ChunkHash)
+	retrieved, err := repo.GetByHash(ctx, chunk.ChunkHash.String())
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("failed to get chunk: %v", err)
 	}
+
 	if retrieved == nil {
 		t.Fatal("expected chunk, got nil")
 	}
+
 	if retrieved.ChunkHash != chunk.ChunkHash {
 		t.Errorf("chunk hash mismatch: got %s, want %s", retrieved.ChunkHash, chunk.ChunkHash)
 	}
-	if retrieved.SHA256 != chunk.SHA256 {
+
-		t.Errorf("sha256 mismatch: got %s, want %s", retrieved.SHA256, chunk.SHA256)
-	}
 	if retrieved.Size != chunk.Size {
 		t.Errorf("size mismatch: got %d, want %d", retrieved.Size, chunk.Size)
 	}
@@ -49,20 +53,23 @@ func TestChunkRepository(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 
 	// Test GetByHashes
-	chunk2 := &Chunk{
+	chunk2 := &database.Chunk{
-		ChunkHash: "chunkhash456",
+		ChunkHash: types.ChunkHash("chunkhash456"),
-		SHA256:    "sha256hash456",
 		Size:      8192,
 	}
+
 	err = repo.Create(ctx, nil, chunk2)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("failed to create second chunk: %v", err)
 	}
 
-	chunks, err := repo.GetByHashes(ctx, []string{chunk.ChunkHash, chunk2.ChunkHash})
+	chunks, err := repo.GetByHashes(ctx, []string{
+		chunk.ChunkHash.String(), chunk2.ChunkHash.String(),
+	})
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("failed to get chunks by hashes: %v", err)
 	}
+
 	if len(chunks) != 2 {
 		t.Errorf("expected 2 chunks, got %d", len(chunks))
 	}
@@ -72,23 +79,27 @@ func TestChunkRepository(t *testing.T) {
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("failed to list unpacked chunks: %v", err)
 	}
+
 	if len(unpacked) != 2 {
 		t.Errorf("expected 2 unpacked chunks, got %d", len(unpacked))
 	}
 }
 
 func TestChunkRepositoryNotFound(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
 	db, cleanup := setupTestDB(t)
 	defer cleanup()
 
 	ctx := context.Background()
-	repo := NewChunkRepository(db)
+	repo := database.NewChunkRepository(db)
 
 	// Test GetByHash with non-existent hash
 	chunk, err := repo.GetByHash(ctx, "nonexistent")
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("unexpected error: %v", err)
 	}
+
 	if chunk != nil {
 		t.Error("expected nil for non-existent chunk")
 	}
@@ -98,6 +109,7 @@ func TestChunkRepositoryNotFound(t *testing.T) {
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("unexpected error: %v", err)
 	}
+
 	if chunks != nil {
 		t.Error("expected nil for empty hash list")
 	}

internal/database/database.go

@@ -1,143 +1,574 @@
+// Package database provides the local SQLite index for Vaultik backup operations.
+// The database tracks files, chunks, and their associations with blobs.
+//
+// Blobs in Vaultik are the final storage units uploaded to S3. Each blob is a
+// large (up to 10GB) file containing many compressed and encrypted chunks from
+// multiple source files. Blobs are content-addressed: the filename in S3 is
+// hex(SHA256(SHA256(uncompressed blob contents))), computed from the chunk data
+// before compression and encryption (not from the stored bytes). See
+// blobgen.DoubleSHA256 and docs/REPOSTRUCTURE.md.
+//
+// Schema is managed via numbered SQL migrations embedded in the schema/
+// directory. Migration 000.sql bootstraps the schema_migrations tracking
+// table; subsequent migrations (001, 002, …) are applied in order.
 package database
 
 import (
 	"context"
 	"database/sql"
+	"embed"
+	"errors"
 	"fmt"
-	"sync"
+	"net/url"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"sort"
+	"strconv"
+	"strings"
 
+	// Register the pure-Go sqlite driver.
 	_ "modernc.org/sqlite"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/log"
 )
 
+// errInvalidMigrationFilename is returned when an embedded migration file
+// does not follow the "<version>[_<description>].sql" naming pattern.
+var errInvalidMigrationFilename = errors.New("invalid migration filename")
+
+//go:embed schema/*.sql
+var schemaFS embed.FS
+
+// bootstrapVersion is the migration that creates the schema_migrations
+// table itself. It is applied before the normal migration loop.
+const bootstrapVersion = 0
+
+// busyTimeoutMs is how long a connection to the index waits for another
+// connection's lock before failing with "database is locked".
+const busyTimeoutMs = 10000
+
+// DB represents the Vaultik local index database connection.
+// It uses SQLite to track file metadata, content-defined chunks, and blob associations.
+// The database enables incremental backups by detecting changed files and
+// supports deduplication by tracking which chunks are already stored in blobs.
+// Write operations are synchronized through a mutex to ensure thread safety.
 type DB struct {
 	conn *sql.DB
-	writeLock sync.Mutex
+	path string
 }
 
-func New(ctx context.Context, path string) (*DB, error) {
+// ParseMigrationVersion extracts the numeric version prefix from a migration
-	conn, err := sql.Open("sqlite", path+"?_journal_mode=WAL&_synchronous=NORMAL&_busy_timeout=5000")
+// filename. Filenames must follow the pattern "<version>.sql" or
+// "<version>_<description>.sql", where version is a zero-padded numeric
+// string (e.g. "001", "002"). Returns the version as an integer and an
+// error if the filename does not match the expected pattern.
+func ParseMigrationVersion(filename string) (int, error) {
+	name := strings.TrimSuffix(filename, filepath.Ext(filename))
+	if name == "" {
+		return 0, fmt.Errorf("%w %q: empty name", errInvalidMigrationFilename, filename)
+	}
+
+	// Split on underscore to separate version from description.
+	// If there's no underscore, the entire stem is the version.
+	versionStr := name
+	if before, _, ok := strings.Cut(name, "_"); ok {
+		versionStr = before
+	}
+
+	if versionStr == "" {
+		return 0, fmt.Errorf(
+			"%w %q: empty version prefix", errInvalidMigrationFilename, filename,
+		)
+	}
+
+	// Validate the version is purely numeric.
+	for _, ch := range versionStr {
+		if ch < '0' || ch > '9' {
+			return 0, fmt.Errorf(
+				"%w %q: version %q contains non-numeric character %q",
+				errInvalidMigrationFilename, filename, versionStr, string(ch),
+			)
+		}
+	}
+
+	version, err := strconv.Atoi(versionStr)
 	if err != nil {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("opening database: %w", err)
+		return 0, fmt.Errorf("invalid migration filename %q: %w", filename, err)
 	}
 
-	if err := conn.PingContext(ctx); err != nil {
+	return version, nil
-		if closeErr := conn.Close(); closeErr != nil {
-			Fatal("failed to close database connection: %v", closeErr)
-		}
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("pinging database: %w", err)
 }
 
-	db := &DB{conn: conn}
+// indexDSN returns the driver DSN that opens the database at path. The
-	if err := db.createSchema(ctx); err != nil {
+// driver runs each _pragma parameter on every connection it opens and drops
-		if closeErr := conn.Close(); closeErr != nil {
+// any parameter it does not know without an error, so a setting written in
-			Fatal("failed to close database connection: %v", closeErr)
+// another form silently does nothing. In WAL mode one connection can write
+// while others read; the busy timeout makes a connection wait for a lock
+// instead of failing at once.
+func indexDSN(path string) string {
+	return fmt.Sprintf(
+		"%s?_pragma=busy_timeout(%d)&_pragma=journal_mode(WAL)"+
+			"&_pragma=synchronous(NORMAL)&_pragma=foreign_keys(1)",
+		path, busyTimeoutMs)
 }
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("creating schema: %w", err)
+
+// New creates a new database connection at the specified path.
+// It creates the schema if needed. Every connection runs in WAL mode with
+// a busy timeout and foreign keys on (see indexDSN), so a read-only command
+// can read the index while a backup writes to it. Committed rows can sit in
+// the -wal file beside the database until a checkpoint, so a copy of the
+// database file alone may miss them.
+// SQLite handles crash recovery automatically when opening a database with
+// journal/WAL files present.
+// The path parameter can be a file path for persistent storage or ":memory:"
+// for an in-memory database (useful for testing).
+func New(ctx context.Context, path string) (*DB, error) {
+	log.Debug("Opening database connection", "path", path)
+
+	// Note: We do NOT delete journal/WAL files before opening.
+	// SQLite handles crash recovery automatically when the database is opened.
+	// Deleting these files would corrupt the database after an unclean shutdown.
+
+	// First attempt with standard WAL mode
+	log.Debug("Attempting to open database with WAL mode", "path", path)
+
+	conn, err := sql.Open("sqlite", indexDSN(path))
+	if err == nil {
+		configureConnPool(conn)
+
+		err = conn.PingContext(ctx)
+		if err == nil {
+			// Success on first try
+			log.Debug("Database opened successfully with WAL mode", "path", path)
+
+			return finishOpen(ctx, conn, path)
+		}
+
+		log.Debug(
+			"Failed to ping database, closing connection",
+			"path", path, "error", err,
+		)
+
+		_ = conn.Close()
+	}
+
+	// If the first attempt failed, try once more
+	return retryOpen(ctx, path)
+}
+
+// configureConnPool serializes all database access through one connection.
+// SQLite can handle multiple readers but only one writer at a time; setting
+// MaxOpenConns to 1 ensures all writes go through a single connection,
+// preventing SQLITE_BUSY errors.
+func configureConnPool(conn *sql.DB) {
+	conn.SetMaxOpenConns(1)
+	conn.SetMaxIdleConns(1)
+}
+
+// finishOpen wraps the connection and applies any pending migrations. On
+// migration failure the connection is closed.
+func finishOpen(ctx context.Context, conn *sql.DB, path string) (*DB, error) {
+	db := &DB{conn: conn, path: path}
+
+	err := applyMigrations(ctx, conn)
+	if err != nil {
+		_ = conn.Close()
+
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("applying migrations: %w", err)
 	}
 
 	return db, nil
 }
 
-func (db *DB) Close() error {
+// retryOpen makes a second attempt to open the database, with the same
-	if err := db.conn.Close(); err != nil {
+// settings, after the first attempt failed, for example because another
-		Fatal("failed to close database: %v", err)
+// process held a lock for longer than the busy timeout.
+func retryOpen(ctx context.Context, path string) (*DB, error) {
+	log.Info("Database appears locked, retrying open", "path", path)
+
+	conn, err := sql.Open("sqlite", indexDSN(path))
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("opening database on retry: %w", err)
 	}
+
+	configureConnPool(conn)
+
+	err = conn.PingContext(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Debug(
+			"Failed to ping database on retry, closing",
+			"path", path, "error", err,
+		)
+
+		_ = conn.Close()
+
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf(
+			"database still locked on retry: %w",
+			err,
+		)
+	}
+
+	db, err := finishOpen(ctx, conn, path)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	log.Debug("Database connection established successfully", "path", path)
+
+	return db, nil
+}
+
+// errUntrustedSnapshotSchema is returned when a downloaded snapshot
+// database carries schema objects the real schema never defines, or is
+// missing a table the restore and deep-verify queries read.
+var errUntrustedSnapshotSchema = errors.New(
+	"downloaded snapshot database has an untrusted schema")
+
+// snapshotReadOnlyDSN builds the driver DSN that opens a materialized
+// snapshot database file read-only. mode=ro opens the file read-only at
+// the OS level, query_only rejects any write the engine is asked to make,
+// and trusted_schema=OFF refuses to run application code named in the
+// schema. The file: URI form is required for the driver to honour the
+// mode parameter.
+func snapshotReadOnlyDSN(path string) string {
+	u := url.URL{
+		Scheme:   "file",
+		Path:     path,
+		RawQuery: "mode=ro&_pragma=query_only(true)&_pragma=trusted_schema(false)",
+	}
+
+	return u.String()
+}
+
+// OpenReadOnly opens an already-materialized SQLite file for read-only
+// querying of a snapshot database downloaded from the store, used by
+// restore and deep verify. Unlike New it never applies schema migrations
+// and never writes: the connection is opened read-only with query_only
+// and trusted_schema=OFF. It refuses any file whose schema carries a
+// trigger, view or virtual table, or lacks an expected table, so a forged
+// file cannot redefine what the restore queries return. The caller owns
+// the file and must remove it.
+func OpenReadOnly(ctx context.Context, path string) (*DB, error) {
+	conn, err := sql.Open("sqlite", snapshotReadOnlyDSN(path))
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("opening read-only database: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	configureConnPool(conn)
+
+	err = conn.PingContext(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		_ = conn.Close()
+
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("opening read-only database: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	err = verifySnapshotSchema(ctx, conn)
+	if err != nil {
+		_ = conn.Close()
+
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	return &DB{conn: conn, path: path}, nil
+}
+
+// verifySnapshotSchema rejects a downloaded database whose schema is not
+// the plain table set the real schema defines. Any trigger, view or
+// virtual table, or a missing expected table, fails the open.
+func verifySnapshotSchema(ctx context.Context, conn *sql.DB) error {
+	// expectedSnapshotTables are the tables the restore and deep-verify
+	// queries read. A downloaded database missing any of them is not a
+	// genuine snapshot database and is refused.
+	expectedSnapshotTables := []string{
+		"blob_chunks",
+		"blobs",
+		"chunks",
+		"file_chunks",
+		"files",
+	}
+
+	rows, err := conn.QueryContext(
+		ctx, "SELECT type, name, sql FROM sqlite_master")
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("reading snapshot schema: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	defer func() { _ = rows.Close() }()
+
+	present := make(map[string]struct{})
+
+	for rows.Next() {
+		var objType, name string
+
+		var objSQL sql.NullString
+
+		err = rows.Scan(&objType, &name, &objSQL)
+		if err != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("reading snapshot schema: %w", err)
+		}
+
+		switch objType {
+		case "trigger", "view":
+			return fmt.Errorf(
+				"%w: unexpected %s %q", errUntrustedSnapshotSchema, objType, name)
+		case "table":
+			if isVirtualTableSQL(objSQL.String) {
+				return fmt.Errorf(
+					"%w: unexpected virtual table %q",
+					errUntrustedSnapshotSchema, name)
+			}
+
+			present[name] = struct{}{}
+		}
+	}
+
+	err = rows.Err()
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("reading snapshot schema: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	for _, table := range expectedSnapshotTables {
+		if _, ok := present[table]; !ok {
+			return fmt.Errorf(
+				"%w: missing table %q", errUntrustedSnapshotSchema, table)
+		}
+	}
+
 	return nil
 }
 
+// isVirtualTableSQL reports whether a sqlite_master row's SQL defines a
+// virtual table. Virtual tables are recorded with type 'table' but a
+// "CREATE VIRTUAL TABLE" definition and can run module code, so they are
+// refused alongside triggers and views.
+func isVirtualTableSQL(createSQL string) bool {
+	return strings.HasPrefix(
+		strings.ToUpper(strings.TrimSpace(createSQL)), "CREATE VIRTUAL TABLE")
+}
+
+// NewTestDB creates an in-memory SQLite database for testing purposes.
+// The database is automatically initialized with the schema and is ready
+// for use. Each call creates a new independent database instance.
+func NewTestDB() (*DB, error) {
+	return New(context.Background(), ":memory:")
+}
+
+// Close closes the database connection.
+// It ensures all pending operations are completed before closing.
+// Returns an error if the database connection cannot be closed properly.
+func (db *DB) Close() error {
+	log.Debug("Closing database connection", "path", db.path)
+
+	err := db.conn.Close()
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Error("Failed to close database", "path", db.path, "error", err)
+
+		return fmt.Errorf("failed to close database: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	log.Debug("Database connection closed successfully", "path", db.path)
+
+	return nil
+}
+
+// Conn returns the underlying *sql.DB connection.
+// This should be used sparingly and primarily for read operations.
+// For write operations, prefer using the ExecWithLog method.
 func (db *DB) Conn() *sql.DB {
 	return db.conn
 }
 
-func (db *DB) BeginTx(ctx context.Context, opts *sql.TxOptions) (*sql.Tx, error) {
+// Path returns the path to the database file.
+func (db *DB) Path() string {
+	return db.path
+}
+
+// BeginTx starts a new database transaction with the given options.
+// The caller is responsible for committing or rolling back the transaction.
+// For write transactions, consider using the Repositories.WithTx method instead,
+// which handles locking and rollback automatically.
+func (db *DB) BeginTx(
+	ctx context.Context,
+	opts *sql.TxOptions,
+) (*sql.Tx, error) {
 	return db.conn.BeginTx(ctx, opts)
 }
 
-// LockForWrite acquires the write lock
+// Note: LockForWrite and UnlockWrite methods have been removed.
-func (db *DB) LockForWrite() {
+// SQLite handles its own locking internally, so explicit locking is not needed.
-	db.writeLock.Lock()
-}
 
-// UnlockWrite releases the write lock
+// ExecWithLog executes a write query with SQL logging.
-func (db *DB) UnlockWrite() {
+// SQLite handles its own locking internally, so we just pass through to ExecContext.
-	db.writeLock.Unlock()
+// The query and args parameters follow the same format as sql.DB.ExecContext.
-}
+func (db *DB) ExecWithLog(
+	ctx context.Context,
+	query string,
+	args ...any,
+) (sql.Result, error) {
+	LogSQL("Execute", query, args...)
 
-// ExecWithLock executes a write query with the write lock held
-func (db *DB) ExecWithLock(ctx context.Context, query string, args ...interface{}) (sql.Result, error) {
-	db.writeLock.Lock()
-	defer db.writeLock.Unlock()
 	return db.conn.ExecContext(ctx, query, args...)
 }
 
-// QueryRowWithLock executes a write query that returns a row with the write lock held
+// QueryRowWithLog executes a query that returns at most one row with SQL
-func (db *DB) QueryRowWithLock(ctx context.Context, query string, args ...interface{}) *sql.Row {
+// logging. This is useful for queries that modify data and return values
-	db.writeLock.Lock()
+// (e.g., INSERT ... RETURNING). SQLite handles its own locking internally.
-	defer db.writeLock.Unlock()
+// The query and args parameters follow the same format as
+// sql.DB.QueryRowContext.
+func (db *DB) QueryRowWithLog(
+	ctx context.Context,
+	query string,
+	args ...any,
+) *sql.Row {
+	LogSQL("QueryRow", query, args...)
+
 	return db.conn.QueryRowContext(ctx, query, args...)
 }
 
-func (db *DB) createSchema(ctx context.Context) error {
+// collectMigrations reads the embedded schema directory and returns
-	schema := `
+// migration filenames sorted lexicographically.
-	CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS files (
+func collectMigrations() ([]string, error) {
-		path TEXT PRIMARY KEY,
+	entries, err := schemaFS.ReadDir("schema")
-		mtime INTEGER NOT NULL,
+	if err != nil {
-		ctime INTEGER NOT NULL,
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to read schema directory: %w", err)
-		size INTEGER NOT NULL,
+	}
-		mode INTEGER NOT NULL,
-		uid INTEGER NOT NULL,
-		gid INTEGER NOT NULL,
-		link_target TEXT
-	);
 
-	CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS file_chunks (
+	var migrations []string
-		path TEXT NOT NULL,
-		idx INTEGER NOT NULL,
-		chunk_hash TEXT NOT NULL,
-		PRIMARY KEY (path, idx)
-	);
 
-	CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS chunks (
+	for _, entry := range entries {
-		chunk_hash TEXT PRIMARY KEY,
+		if !entry.IsDir() && strings.HasSuffix(entry.Name(), ".sql") {
-		sha256 TEXT NOT NULL,
+			migrations = append(migrations, entry.Name())
-		size INTEGER NOT NULL
+		}
-	);
+	}
 
-	CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS blobs (
+	sort.Strings(migrations)
-		blob_hash TEXT PRIMARY KEY,
-		created_ts INTEGER NOT NULL
-	);
 
-	CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS blob_chunks (
+	return migrations, nil
-		blob_hash TEXT NOT NULL,
+}
-		chunk_hash TEXT NOT NULL,
-		offset INTEGER NOT NULL,
-		length INTEGER NOT NULL,
-		PRIMARY KEY (blob_hash, chunk_hash)
-	);
 
-	CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS chunk_files (
+// bootstrapMigrationsTable ensures the schema_migrations table exists
-		chunk_hash TEXT NOT NULL,
+// by applying 000.sql if the table is missing.
-		file_path TEXT NOT NULL,
+func bootstrapMigrationsTable(ctx context.Context, db *sql.DB) error {
-		file_offset INTEGER NOT NULL,
+	var tableExists int
-		length INTEGER NOT NULL,
-		PRIMARY KEY (chunk_hash, file_path)
-	);
 
-	CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS snapshots (
+	err := db.QueryRowContext(ctx,
-		id TEXT PRIMARY KEY,
+		"SELECT COUNT(*) FROM sqlite_master WHERE type='table' AND name='schema_migrations'",
-		hostname TEXT NOT NULL,
+	).Scan(&tableExists)
-		vaultik_version TEXT NOT NULL,
+	if err != nil {
-		created_ts INTEGER NOT NULL,
+		return fmt.Errorf("failed to check for migrations table: %w", err)
-		file_count INTEGER NOT NULL,
+	}
-		chunk_count INTEGER NOT NULL,
-		blob_count INTEGER NOT NULL,
-		total_size INTEGER NOT NULL,
-		blob_size INTEGER NOT NULL,
-		compression_ratio REAL NOT NULL
-	);
-	`
 
-	_, err := db.conn.ExecContext(ctx, schema)
+	if tableExists > 0 {
+		return nil
+	}
+
+	content, err := schemaFS.ReadFile("schema/000.sql")
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("failed to read bootstrap migration 000.sql: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	log.Info("applying bootstrap migration", "version", bootstrapVersion)
+
+	_, err = db.ExecContext(ctx, string(content))
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("failed to apply bootstrap migration: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	return nil
+}
+
+// applyMigrations applies all pending migrations to db. It first bootstraps
+// the schema_migrations table via 000.sql, then iterates through remaining
+// migration files in order.
+func applyMigrations(ctx context.Context, db *sql.DB) error {
+	err := bootstrapMigrationsTable(ctx, db)
+	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
+
+	migrations, err := collectMigrations()
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	for _, migration := range migrations {
+		version, parseErr := ParseMigrationVersion(migration)
+		if parseErr != nil {
+			return parseErr
+		}
+
+		// Check if already applied.
+		var count int
+
+		err := db.QueryRowContext(ctx,
+			"SELECT COUNT(*) FROM schema_migrations WHERE version = ?",
+			version,
+		).Scan(&count)
+		if err != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("failed to check migration status: %w", err)
+		}
+
+		if count > 0 {
+			log.Debug("migration already applied", "version", version)
+
+			continue
+		}
+
+		// Read and apply migration.
+		content, readErr := schemaFS.ReadFile(filepath.Join("schema", migration))
+		if readErr != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("failed to read migration %s: %w", migration, readErr)
+		}
+
+		log.Info("applying migration", "version", version)
+
+		_, execErr := db.ExecContext(ctx, string(content))
+		if execErr != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("failed to apply migration %s: %w", migration, execErr)
+		}
+
+		// Record migration as applied.
+		_, recErr := db.ExecContext(ctx,
+			"INSERT INTO schema_migrations (version) VALUES (?)",
+			version,
+		)
+		if recErr != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("failed to record migration %s: %w", migration, recErr)
+		}
+
+		log.Info("migration applied successfully", "version", version)
+	}
+
+	return nil
+}
+
+// repeatPlaceholder generates a string of ", ?" repeated n times for IN
+// clause construction. For example, repeatPlaceholder(2) returns ", ?, ?".
+func repeatPlaceholder(n int) string {
+	if n <= 0 {
+		return ""
+	}
+
+	return strings.Repeat(", ?", n)
+}
+
+// LogSQL logs SQL queries and their arguments when debug mode is enabled.
+// Debug mode is activated by setting the GODEBUG environment variable to
+// include "vaultik". This is useful for troubleshooting database operations
+// and understanding query patterns.
+//
+// The operation parameter describes the type of SQL operation (e.g.,
+// "Execute", "Query"). The query parameter is the SQL statement being
+// executed. The args parameter contains the query arguments that will be
+// interpolated.
+func LogSQL(operation, query string, args ...any) {
+	if strings.Contains(os.Getenv("GODEBUG"), "vaultik") {
+		log.Debug(
+			"SQL "+operation,
+			"query",
+			strings.TrimSpace(query),
+			"args",
+			fmt.Sprintf("%v", args),
+		)
+	}
+}

internal/database/database_test.go

@@ -1,13 +1,17 @@
+//nolint:testpackage // exercises unexported migration internals
 package database
 
 import (
 	"context"
+	"database/sql"
 	"fmt"
 	"path/filepath"
 	"testing"
 )
 
 func TestDatabase(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
 	ctx := context.Background()
 	dbPath := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "test.db")
 
@@ -15,8 +19,10 @@ func TestDatabase(t *testing.T) {
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("failed to create database: %v", err)
 	}
+
 	defer func() {
-		if err := db.Close(); err != nil {
+		err := db.Close()
+		if err != nil {
 			t.Errorf("failed to close database: %v", err)
 		}
 	}()
@@ -26,16 +32,20 @@ func TestDatabase(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatal("database connection is nil")
 	}
 
-	// Test schema creation (already done in New)
+	// Test schema creation (already done in New via migrations)
 	// Verify tables exist
 	tables := []string{
+		"schema_migrations",
 		"files", "file_chunks", "chunks", "blobs",
 		"blob_chunks", "chunk_files", "snapshots",
 	}
 
 	for _, table := range tables {
 		var name string
-		err := db.conn.QueryRow("SELECT name FROM sqlite_master WHERE type='table' AND name=?", table).Scan(&name)
+
+		err := db.conn.QueryRowContext(ctx,
+			"SELECT name FROM sqlite_master WHERE type='table' AND name=?", table,
+		).Scan(&name)
 		if err != nil {
 			t.Errorf("table %s does not exist: %v", table, err)
 		}
@@ -43,6 +53,8 @@ func TestDatabase(t *testing.T) {
 }
 
 func TestDatabaseInvalidPath(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
 	ctx := context.Background()
 
 	// Test with invalid path
@@ -53,6 +65,8 @@ func TestDatabaseInvalidPath(t *testing.T) {
 }
 
 func TestDatabaseConcurrentAccess(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
 	ctx := context.Background()
 	dbPath := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "test.db")
 
@@ -60,37 +74,314 @@ func TestDatabaseConcurrentAccess(t *testing.T) {
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("failed to create database: %v", err)
 	}
+
 	defer func() {
-		if err := db.Close(); err != nil {
+		err := db.Close()
+		if err != nil {
 			t.Errorf("failed to close database: %v", err)
 		}
 	}()
 
 	// Test concurrent writes
-	done := make(chan bool, 10)
+	type result struct {
-	for i := 0; i < 10; i++ {
+		index int
-		go func(i int) {
+		err   error
-			_, err := db.ExecWithLock(ctx, "INSERT INTO chunks (chunk_hash, sha256, size) VALUES (?, ?, ?)",
-				fmt.Sprintf("hash%d", i), fmt.Sprintf("sha%d", i), i*1024)
-			if err != nil {
-				t.Errorf("concurrent insert failed: %v", err)
 	}
-			done <- true
+
+	results := make(chan result, 10)
+
+	for i := range 10 {
+		go func(i int) {
+			_, err := db.ExecWithLog(ctx,
+				"INSERT INTO chunks (chunk_hash, size) VALUES (?, ?)",
+				fmt.Sprintf("hash%d", i), i*1024)
+			results <- result{index: i, err: err}
 		}(i)
 	}
 
-	// Wait for all goroutines
+	// Wait for all goroutines and check results
-	for i := 0; i < 10; i++ {
+	for range 10 {
-		<-done
+		r := <-results
+		if r.err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("concurrent insert %d failed: %v", r.index, r.err)
+		}
 	}
 
 	// Verify all inserts succeeded
 	var count int
+
 	err = db.conn.QueryRowContext(ctx, "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM chunks").Scan(&count)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("failed to count chunks: %v", err)
 	}
+
 	if count != 10 {
 		t.Errorf("expected 10 chunks, got %d", count)
 	}
 }
+
+// TestNewSetsJournalModeAndBusyTimeout checks that the connection settings
+// New passes reach SQLite. The driver drops a setting it does not recognise
+// without an error, so only reading the value back shows it took effect.
+func TestNewSetsJournalModeAndBusyTimeout(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	ctx := context.Background()
+
+	db, err := New(ctx, filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "index.db"))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to create database: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	defer func() { _ = db.Close() }()
+
+	var journalMode string
+
+	err = db.conn.QueryRowContext(ctx, "PRAGMA journal_mode").Scan(&journalMode)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("reading journal_mode: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	if journalMode != "wal" {
+		t.Errorf("journal_mode = %q, want %q", journalMode, "wal")
+	}
+
+	var busyTimeout int
+
+	err = db.conn.QueryRowContext(ctx, "PRAGMA busy_timeout").Scan(&busyTimeout)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("reading busy_timeout: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	if busyTimeout != busyTimeoutMs {
+		t.Errorf("busy_timeout = %d, want %d", busyTimeout, busyTimeoutMs)
+	}
+}
+
+// TestNewWriteSucceedsWhileAnotherHandleReads opens the same index twice,
+// as a read-only command does while a backup runs, and checks that a write
+// on one handle commits while the other is in the middle of a read.
+func TestNewWriteSucceedsWhileAnotherHandleReads(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	ctx := context.Background()
+	dbPath := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "index.db")
+
+	reader, err := New(ctx, dbPath)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to open reading handle: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	defer func() { _ = reader.Close() }()
+
+	writer, err := New(ctx, dbPath)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to open writing handle: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	defer func() { _ = writer.Close() }()
+
+	// The read lock taken by the SELECT is held until the transaction ends.
+	readTx, err := reader.BeginTx(ctx, nil)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("beginning read transaction: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	defer func() { _ = readTx.Rollback() }()
+
+	var count int
+
+	err = readTx.QueryRowContext(ctx, "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM chunks").Scan(&count)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("reading chunks: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	_, err = writer.ExecWithLog(ctx,
+		"INSERT INTO chunks (chunk_hash, size) VALUES (?, ?)", "hash", 1024)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("write while another handle reads: %v", err)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestParseMigrationVersion(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	tests := []struct {
+		name      string
+		filename  string
+		wantVer   int
+		wantError bool
+	}{
+		{name: "valid 000.sql", filename: "000.sql", wantVer: 0, wantError: false},
+		{name: "valid 001.sql", filename: "001.sql", wantVer: 1, wantError: false},
+		{name: "valid 099.sql", filename: "099.sql", wantVer: 99, wantError: false},
+		{
+			name: "valid with description", filename: "001_initial_schema.sql",
+			wantVer: 1, wantError: false,
+		},
+		{
+			name: "valid large version", filename: "123_big_migration.sql",
+			wantVer: 123, wantError: false,
+		},
+		{name: "invalid alpha version", filename: "abc.sql", wantVer: 0, wantError: true},
+		{name: "invalid mixed chars", filename: "12a.sql", wantVer: 0, wantError: true},
+		{name: "invalid no extension", filename: "schema.sql", wantVer: 0, wantError: true},
+		{name: "empty string", filename: "", wantVer: 0, wantError: true},
+	}
+
+	for _, tc := range tests {
+		t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			t.Parallel()
+
+			got, err := ParseMigrationVersion(tc.filename)
+			if tc.wantError {
+				if err == nil {
+					t.Errorf("ParseMigrationVersion(%q) = %d, nil; want error",
+						tc.filename, got)
+				}
+
+				return
+			}
+
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Errorf("ParseMigrationVersion(%q) unexpected error: %v",
+					tc.filename, err)
+
+				return
+			}
+
+			if got != tc.wantVer {
+				t.Errorf("ParseMigrationVersion(%q) = %d; want %d",
+					tc.filename, got, tc.wantVer)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+func TestApplyMigrations_Idempotent(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	ctx := context.Background()
+
+	conn, err := sql.Open("sqlite", ":memory:?_foreign_keys=ON")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to open database: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	defer func() {
+		err := conn.Close()
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Errorf("failed to close database: %v", err)
+		}
+	}()
+
+	conn.SetMaxOpenConns(1)
+	conn.SetMaxIdleConns(1)
+
+	// First run: apply all migrations.
+	err = applyMigrations(ctx, conn)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("first applyMigrations failed: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	// Count rows in schema_migrations after first run.
+	var countBefore int
+
+	err = conn.QueryRowContext(ctx,
+		"SELECT COUNT(*) FROM schema_migrations",
+	).Scan(&countBefore)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to count schema_migrations after first run: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	// Second run: must be a no-op.
+	err = applyMigrations(ctx, conn)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("second applyMigrations failed: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	// Count rows in schema_migrations after second run — must be unchanged.
+	var countAfter int
+
+	err = conn.QueryRowContext(ctx,
+		"SELECT COUNT(*) FROM schema_migrations",
+	).Scan(&countAfter)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to count schema_migrations after second run: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	if countBefore != countAfter {
+		t.Errorf("schema_migrations row count changed: before=%d, after=%d",
+			countBefore, countAfter)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestBootstrapMigrationsTable_FreshDatabase(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	ctx := context.Background()
+
+	conn, err := sql.Open("sqlite", ":memory:?_foreign_keys=ON")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to open database: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	defer func() {
+		err := conn.Close()
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Errorf("failed to close database: %v", err)
+		}
+	}()
+
+	conn.SetMaxOpenConns(1)
+	conn.SetMaxIdleConns(1)
+
+	// Verify schema_migrations does NOT exist yet.
+	var tableBefore int
+
+	err = conn.QueryRowContext(ctx,
+		"SELECT COUNT(*) FROM sqlite_master WHERE type='table' AND name='schema_migrations'",
+	).Scan(&tableBefore)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to check for table before bootstrap: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	if tableBefore != 0 {
+		t.Fatal("schema_migrations table should not exist before bootstrap")
+	}
+
+	// Run bootstrap.
+	err = bootstrapMigrationsTable(ctx, conn)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("bootstrapMigrationsTable failed: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	// Verify schema_migrations now exists.
+	var tableAfter int
+
+	err = conn.QueryRowContext(ctx,
+		"SELECT COUNT(*) FROM sqlite_master WHERE type='table' AND name='schema_migrations'",
+	).Scan(&tableAfter)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to check for table after bootstrap: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	if tableAfter != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("schema_migrations table should exist after bootstrap, got count=%d",
+			tableAfter)
+	}
+
+	// Verify version 0 row exists.
+	var version int
+
+	err = conn.QueryRowContext(ctx,
+		"SELECT version FROM schema_migrations WHERE version = 0",
+	).Scan(&version)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("version 0 row not found in schema_migrations: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	if version != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("expected version 0, got %d", version)
+	}
+}

internal/database/errors.go

@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-package database
-
-import (
-	"database/sql"
-	"fmt"
-	"os"
-)
-
-// Fatal prints an error message to stderr and exits with status 1
-func Fatal(format string, args ...interface{}) {
-	fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "FATAL: "+format+"\n", args...)
-	os.Exit(1)
-}
-
-// CloseRows closes rows and exits on error
-func CloseRows(rows *sql.Rows) {
-	if err := rows.Close(); err != nil {
-		Fatal("failed to close rows: %v", err)
-	}
-}

internal/database/file_chunks.go

@@ -4,28 +4,38 @@ import (
 	"context"
 	"database/sql"
 	"fmt"
+	"strings"
+
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/types"
 )
 
+// FileChunkRepository provides access to the file_chunks table, which maps
+// files to their ordered constituent chunks.
 type FileChunkRepository struct {
 	db *DB
 }
 
+// NewFileChunkRepository creates a FileChunkRepository backed by db.
 func NewFileChunkRepository(db *DB) *FileChunkRepository {
 	return &FileChunkRepository{db: db}
 }
 
-func (r *FileChunkRepository) Create(ctx context.Context, tx *sql.Tx, fc *FileChunk) error {
+// Create inserts a file_chunks row (idempotently), using tx when non-nil.
+func (r *FileChunkRepository) Create(
+	ctx context.Context, tx *sql.Tx, fc *FileChunk,
+) error {
 	query := `
-		INSERT INTO file_chunks (path, idx, chunk_hash)
+		INSERT INTO file_chunks (file_id, idx, chunk_hash)
 		VALUES (?, ?, ?)
-		ON CONFLICT(path, idx) DO NOTHING
+		ON CONFLICT(file_id, idx) DO NOTHING
 	`
 
 	var err error
 	if tx != nil {
-		_, err = tx.ExecContext(ctx, query, fc.Path, fc.Idx, fc.ChunkHash)
+		_, err = tx.ExecContext(ctx, query, fc.FileID.String(), fc.Idx, fc.ChunkHash.String())
 	} else {
-		_, err = r.db.ExecWithLock(ctx, query, fc.Path, fc.Idx, fc.ChunkHash)
+		_, err = r.db.ExecWithLog(ctx, query,
+			fc.FileID.String(), fc.Idx, fc.ChunkHash.String())
 	}
 
 	if err != nil {
@@ -35,41 +45,90 @@ func (r *FileChunkRepository) Create(ctx context.Context, tx *sql.Tx, fc *FileCh
 	return nil
 }
 
-func (r *FileChunkRepository) GetByPath(ctx context.Context, path string) ([]*FileChunk, error) {
+// GetByPath returns the ordered chunks of the file at the given path.
+func (r *FileChunkRepository) GetByPath(
+	ctx context.Context, path string,
+) ([]*FileChunk, error) {
 	query := `
-		SELECT path, idx, chunk_hash
+		SELECT fc.file_id, fc.idx, fc.chunk_hash
-		FROM file_chunks
+		FROM file_chunks fc
-		WHERE path = ?
+		JOIN files f ON fc.file_id = f.id
-		ORDER BY idx
+		WHERE f.path = ?
+		ORDER BY fc.idx
 	`
 
 	rows, err := r.db.conn.QueryContext(ctx, query, path)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("querying file chunks: %w", err)
 	}
-	defer CloseRows(rows)
 
-	var fileChunks []*FileChunk
+	defer func() { _ = rows.Close() }()
-	for rows.Next() {
+
-		var fc FileChunk
+	return r.scanFileChunks(rows)
-		err := rows.Scan(&fc.Path, &fc.Idx, &fc.ChunkHash)
+}
+
+// GetByFileID retrieves file chunks by file ID
+func (r *FileChunkRepository) GetByFileID(
+	ctx context.Context, fileID types.FileID,
+) ([]*FileChunk, error) {
+	query := `
+		SELECT file_id, idx, chunk_hash
+		FROM file_chunks
+		WHERE file_id = ?
+		ORDER BY idx
+	`
+
+	rows, err := r.db.conn.QueryContext(ctx, query, fileID.String())
 	if err != nil {
-			return nil, fmt.Errorf("scanning file chunk: %w", err)
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("querying file chunks: %w", err)
-		}
-		fileChunks = append(fileChunks, &fc)
 	}
 
-	return fileChunks, rows.Err()
+	defer func() { _ = rows.Close() }()
+
+	return r.scanFileChunks(rows)
 }
 
-func (r *FileChunkRepository) DeleteByPath(ctx context.Context, tx *sql.Tx, path string) error {
+// GetByPathTx retrieves file chunks within a transaction
-	query := `DELETE FROM file_chunks WHERE path = ?`
+func (r *FileChunkRepository) GetByPathTx(
+	ctx context.Context, tx *sql.Tx, path string,
+) ([]*FileChunk, error) {
+	query := `
+		SELECT fc.file_id, fc.idx, fc.chunk_hash
+		FROM file_chunks fc
+		JOIN files f ON fc.file_id = f.id
+		WHERE f.path = ?
+		ORDER BY fc.idx
+	`
+
+	LogSQL("GetByPathTx", query, path)
+
+	rows, err := tx.QueryContext(ctx, query, path)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("querying file chunks: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	defer func() { _ = rows.Close() }()
+
+	fileChunks, err := r.scanFileChunks(rows)
+	LogSQL("GetByPathTx", "Complete", path, "count", len(fileChunks))
+
+	return fileChunks, err
+}
+
+// DeleteByPath deletes all file_chunks rows for the file at the given path.
+func (r *FileChunkRepository) DeleteByPath(
+	ctx context.Context, tx *sql.Tx, path string,
+) error {
+	query := `
+		DELETE FROM file_chunks
+		WHERE file_id = (SELECT id FROM files WHERE path = ?)
+	`
 
 	var err error
 	if tx != nil {
 		_, err = tx.ExecContext(ctx, query, path)
 	} else {
-		_, err = r.db.ExecWithLock(ctx, query, path)
+		_, err = r.db.ExecWithLog(ctx, query, path)
 	}
 
 	if err != nil {
@@ -78,3 +137,171 @@ func (r *FileChunkRepository) DeleteByPath(ctx context.Context, tx *sql.Tx, path
 
 	return nil
 }
+
+// DeleteByFileID deletes all chunks for a file by its UUID
+func (r *FileChunkRepository) DeleteByFileID(
+	ctx context.Context, tx *sql.Tx, fileID types.FileID,
+) error {
+	query := `DELETE FROM file_chunks WHERE file_id = ?`
+
+	var err error
+	if tx != nil {
+		_, err = tx.ExecContext(ctx, query, fileID.String())
+	} else {
+		_, err = r.db.ExecWithLog(ctx, query, fileID.String())
+	}
+
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("deleting file chunks: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	return nil
+}
+
+// DeleteByFileIDs deletes all chunks for multiple files in a single statement.
+//
+//nolint:dupl // symmetric implementation for a parallel association table
+func (r *FileChunkRepository) DeleteByFileIDs(
+	ctx context.Context, tx *sql.Tx, fileIDs []types.FileID,
+) error {
+	if len(fileIDs) == 0 {
+		return nil
+	}
+
+	// Batch at 500 to stay within SQLite's variable limit
+	const batchSize = 500
+
+	for i := 0; i < len(fileIDs); i += batchSize {
+		end := min(i+batchSize, len(fileIDs))
+
+		batch := fileIDs[i:end]
+
+		//nolint:gosec // G202: concatenates constant SQL and "?" placeholders only
+		query := "DELETE FROM file_chunks WHERE file_id IN (?" +
+			repeatPlaceholder(len(batch)-1) + ")"
+
+		args := make([]any, len(batch))
+		for j, id := range batch {
+			args[j] = id.String()
+		}
+
+		var err error
+		if tx != nil {
+			_, err = tx.ExecContext(ctx, query, args...)
+		} else {
+			_, err = r.db.ExecWithLog(ctx, query, args...)
+		}
+
+		if err != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("batch deleting file_chunks: %w", err)
+		}
+	}
+
+	return nil
+}
+
+// CreateBatch inserts multiple file_chunks in a single statement for efficiency.
+// Batches are automatically split to stay within SQLite's variable limit.
+func (r *FileChunkRepository) CreateBatch(
+	ctx context.Context, tx *sql.Tx, fcs []FileChunk,
+) error {
+	if len(fcs) == 0 {
+		return nil
+	}
+
+	// Each file_chunks row binds this many SQL variables.
+	const fileChunkCols = 3
+
+	// SQLite has a limit on variables (typically 999 or 32766), so batch
+	// at 300 rows to be safe.
+	const batchSize = 300
+
+	for i := 0; i < len(fcs); i += batchSize {
+		end := min(i+batchSize, len(fcs))
+
+		batch := fcs[i:end]
+
+		// Build the query with multiple value sets
+		query := "INSERT INTO file_chunks (file_id, idx, chunk_hash) VALUES "
+
+		args := make([]any, 0, len(batch)*fileChunkCols)
+
+		var querySb211 strings.Builder
+
+		for j, fc := range batch {
+			if j > 0 {
+				querySb211.WriteString(", ")
+			}
+
+			querySb211.WriteString("(?, ?, ?)")
+
+			args = append(args, fc.FileID.String(), fc.Idx, fc.ChunkHash.String())
+		}
+
+		query += querySb211.String()
+
+		query += " ON CONFLICT(file_id, idx) DO NOTHING"
+
+		var err error
+		if tx != nil {
+			_, err = tx.ExecContext(ctx, query, args...)
+		} else {
+			_, err = r.db.ExecWithLog(ctx, query, args...)
+		}
+
+		if err != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("batch inserting file_chunks: %w", err)
+		}
+	}
+
+	return nil
+}
+
+// GetByFile is an alias for GetByPath for compatibility
+func (r *FileChunkRepository) GetByFile(
+	ctx context.Context, path string,
+) ([]*FileChunk, error) {
+	LogSQL("GetByFile", "Starting", path)
+	result, err := r.GetByPath(ctx, path)
+	LogSQL("GetByFile", "Complete", path, "count", len(result))
+
+	return result, err
+}
+
+// GetByFileTx retrieves file chunks within a transaction
+func (r *FileChunkRepository) GetByFileTx(
+	ctx context.Context, tx *sql.Tx, path string,
+) ([]*FileChunk, error) {
+	LogSQL("GetByFileTx", "Starting", path)
+	result, err := r.GetByPathTx(ctx, tx, path)
+	LogSQL("GetByFileTx", "Complete", path, "count", len(result))
+
+	return result, err
+}
+
+// scanFileChunks is a helper that scans file chunk rows
+func (r *FileChunkRepository) scanFileChunks(rows *sql.Rows) ([]*FileChunk, error) {
+	var fileChunks []*FileChunk
+
+	for rows.Next() {
+		var (
+			fc                      FileChunk
+			fileIDStr, chunkHashStr string
+		)
+
+		err := rows.Scan(&fileIDStr, &fc.Idx, &chunkHashStr)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("scanning file chunk: %w", err)
+		}
+
+		fc.FileID, err = types.ParseFileID(fileIDStr)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("parsing file ID: %w", err)
+		}
+
+		fc.ChunkHash = types.ChunkHash(chunkHashStr)
+		fileChunks = append(fileChunks, &fc)
+	}
+
+	return fileChunks, rows.Err()
+}

internal/database/file_chunks_test.go

@@ -1,23 +1,46 @@
-package database
+package database_test
 
 import (
 	"context"
 	"fmt"
 	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/database"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/types"
 )
 
 func TestFileChunkRepository(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
 	db, cleanup := setupTestDB(t)
 	defer cleanup()
 
 	ctx := context.Background()
-	repo := NewFileChunkRepository(db)
+	repo := database.NewFileChunkRepository(db)
+	fileRepo := database.NewFileRepository(db)
+	repos := database.NewRepositories(db)
+
+	// Create test file first
+	testTime := time.Now().Truncate(time.Second)
+	file := &database.File{
+		Path:       testFileTxt,
+		MTime:      testTime,
+		Size:       3072,
+		Mode:       0644,
+		UID:        1000,
+		GID:        1000,
+		LinkTarget: "",
+	}
+
+	mustCreateFile(t, fileRepo, file)
+	mustCreateChunks(t, repos, chunk1Hash, chunk2Hash, chunk3Hash)
 
 	// Test Create
-	fc1 := &FileChunk{
+	fc1 := &database.FileChunk{
-		Path:      "/test/file.txt",
+		FileID:    file.ID,
 		Idx:       0,
-		ChunkHash: "chunk1",
+		ChunkHash: types.ChunkHash(chunk1Hash),
 	}
 
 	err := repo.Create(ctx, nil, fc1)
@@ -26,37 +49,40 @@ func TestFileChunkRepository(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 
 	// Add more chunks for the same file
-	fc2 := &FileChunk{
+	fc2 := &database.FileChunk{
-		Path:      "/test/file.txt",
+		FileID:    file.ID,
 		Idx:       1,
-		ChunkHash: "chunk2",
+		ChunkHash: types.ChunkHash(chunk2Hash),
 	}
+
 	err = repo.Create(ctx, nil, fc2)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("failed to create second file chunk: %v", err)
 	}
 
-	fc3 := &FileChunk{
+	fc3 := &database.FileChunk{
-		Path:      "/test/file.txt",
+		FileID:    file.ID,
 		Idx:       2,
-		ChunkHash: "chunk3",
+		ChunkHash: types.ChunkHash(chunk3Hash),
 	}
+
 	err = repo.Create(ctx, nil, fc3)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("failed to create third file chunk: %v", err)
 	}
 
-	// Test GetByPath
+	// Test GetByFile
-	chunks, err := repo.GetByPath(ctx, "/test/file.txt")
+	fileChunks, err := repo.GetByFile(ctx, testFileTxt)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("failed to get file chunks: %v", err)
 	}
-	if len(chunks) != 3 {
+
-		t.Errorf("expected 3 chunks, got %d", len(chunks))
+	if len(fileChunks) != 3 {
+		t.Errorf("expected 3 chunks, got %d", len(fileChunks))
 	}
 
 	// Verify order
-	for i, chunk := range chunks {
+	for i, chunk := range fileChunks {
 		if chunk.Idx != i {
 			t.Errorf("wrong chunk order: expected idx %d, got %d", i, chunk.Idx)
 		}
@@ -67,38 +93,116 @@ func TestFileChunkRepository(t *testing.T) {
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("failed to create duplicate file chunk: %v", err)
 	}
-
-	// Test DeleteByPath
-	err = repo.DeleteByPath(ctx, nil, "/test/file.txt")
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("failed to delete file chunks: %v", err)
 }
 
-	chunks, err = repo.GetByPath(ctx, "/test/file.txt")
+func TestFileChunkRepositoryDeleteByFileID(t *testing.T) {
-	if err != nil {
+	t.Parallel()
-		t.Fatalf("failed to get deleted file chunks: %v", err)
-	}
-	if len(chunks) != 0 {
-		t.Errorf("expected 0 chunks after delete, got %d", len(chunks))
-	}
-}
 
-func TestFileChunkRepositoryMultipleFiles(t *testing.T) {
 	db, cleanup := setupTestDB(t)
 	defer cleanup()
 
 	ctx := context.Background()
-	repo := NewFileChunkRepository(db)
+	repo := database.NewFileChunkRepository(db)
+	fileRepo := database.NewFileRepository(db)
+	repos := database.NewRepositories(db)
+
+	file := &database.File{
+		Path:  testFileTxt,
+		MTime: time.Now().Truncate(time.Second),
+		Size:  1024,
+		Mode:  0644,
+		UID:   1000,
+		GID:   1000,
+	}
+
+	mustCreateFile(t, fileRepo, file)
+	mustCreateChunks(t, repos, chunk1Hash)
+
+	fc := &database.FileChunk{
+		FileID:    file.ID,
+		Idx:       0,
+		ChunkHash: types.ChunkHash(chunk1Hash),
+	}
+
+	err := repo.Create(ctx, nil, fc)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to create file chunk: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	// Test DeleteByFileID
+	err = repo.DeleteByFileID(ctx, nil, file.ID)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to delete file chunks: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	fileChunks, err := repo.GetByFileID(ctx, file.ID)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to get deleted file chunks: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	if len(fileChunks) != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("expected 0 chunks after delete, got %d", len(fileChunks))
+	}
+}
+
+func TestFileChunkRepositoryMultipleFiles(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	db, cleanup := setupTestDB(t)
+	defer cleanup()
+
+	ctx := context.Background()
+	repo := database.NewFileChunkRepository(db)
+	fileRepo := database.NewFileRepository(db)
+
+	// Create test files
+	testTime := time.Now().Truncate(time.Second)
+	filePaths := []string{testFilePath1, testFilePath2, "/file3.txt"}
+	files := make([]*database.File, len(filePaths))
+
+	for i, path := range filePaths {
+		file := &database.File{
+			Path:       types.FilePath(path),
+			MTime:      testTime,
+			Size:       2048,
+			Mode:       0644,
+			UID:        1000,
+			GID:        1000,
+			LinkTarget: "",
+		}
+
+		mustCreateFile(t, fileRepo, file)
+
+		files[i] = file
+	}
+
+	// Create all chunks first
+	chunkRepo := database.NewChunkRepository(db)
+
+	for i := range files {
+		for j := range 2 {
+			chunkHash := types.ChunkHash(fmt.Sprintf("file%d_chunk%d", i, j))
+			chunk := &database.Chunk{
+				ChunkHash: chunkHash,
+				Size:      1024,
+			}
+
+			err := chunkRepo.Create(ctx, nil, chunk)
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatalf("failed to create chunk %s: %v", chunkHash, err)
+			}
+		}
+	}
 
 	// Create chunks for multiple files
-	files := []string{"/file1.txt", "/file2.txt", "/file3.txt"}
+	for i, file := range files {
-	for _, path := range files {
+		for j := range 2 {
-		for i := 0; i < 2; i++ {
+			fc := &database.FileChunk{
-			fc := &FileChunk{
+				FileID:    file.ID,
-				Path:      path,
+				Idx:       j,
-				Idx:       i,
+				ChunkHash: types.ChunkHash(fmt.Sprintf("file%d_chunk%d", i, j)),
-				ChunkHash: fmt.Sprintf("%s_chunk%d", path, i),
 			}
+
 			err := repo.Create(ctx, nil, fc)
 			if err != nil {
 				t.Fatalf("failed to create file chunk: %v", err)
@@ -107,13 +211,14 @@ func TestFileChunkRepositoryMultipleFiles(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 
 	// Verify each file has correct chunks
-	for _, path := range files {
+	for i, file := range files {
-		chunks, err := repo.GetByPath(ctx, path)
+		chunks, err := repo.GetByFileID(ctx, file.ID)
 		if err != nil {
-			t.Fatalf("failed to get chunks for %s: %v", path, err)
+			t.Fatalf("failed to get chunks for file %d: %v", i, err)
 		}
+
 		if len(chunks) != 2 {
-			t.Errorf("expected 2 chunks for %s, got %d", path, len(chunks))
+			t.Errorf("expected 2 chunks for file %d, got %d", i, len(chunks))
 		}
 	}
 }

internal/database/files.go

@@ -3,130 +3,195 @@ package database
 import (
 	"context"
 	"database/sql"
+	"errors"
 	"fmt"
+	"strings"
 	"time"
+
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/log"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/types"
 )
 
+// FileRepository provides access to the files table, which stores file
+// metadata (path, times, permissions, ownership, symlink targets).
 type FileRepository struct {
 	db *DB
 }
 
+// NewFileRepository creates a FileRepository backed by db.
 func NewFileRepository(db *DB) *FileRepository {
 	return &FileRepository{db: db}
 }
 
+// Create inserts or updates a file row (upsert on path), using tx when
+// non-nil. The file's ID is generated when zero and updated from the
+// database's RETURNING clause.
 func (r *FileRepository) Create(ctx context.Context, tx *sql.Tx, file *File) error {
+	// Generate UUID if not provided
+	if file.ID.IsZero() {
+		file.ID = types.NewFileID()
+	}
+
 	query := `
-		INSERT INTO files (path, mtime, ctime, size, mode, uid, gid, link_target)
+		INSERT INTO files
-		VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)
+			(id, path, source_path, mtime, mtime_nsec, size, mode, uid, gid, link_target)
+		VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)
 		ON CONFLICT(path) DO UPDATE SET
+			source_path = excluded.source_path,
 			mtime = excluded.mtime,
-			ctime = excluded.ctime,
+			mtime_nsec = excluded.mtime_nsec,
 			size = excluded.size,
 			mode = excluded.mode,
 			uid = excluded.uid,
 			gid = excluded.gid,
 			link_target = excluded.link_target
+		RETURNING id
 	`
 
-	var err error
+	var (
+		idStr string
+		err   error
+	)
+
 	if tx != nil {
-		_, err = tx.ExecContext(ctx, query, file.Path, file.MTime.Unix(), file.CTime.Unix(), file.Size, file.Mode, file.UID, file.GID, file.LinkTarget)
+		LogSQL("Execute", query,
+			file.ID.String(), file.Path.String(), file.SourcePath.String(),
+			file.MTime.Unix(), file.MTime.Nanosecond(),
+			file.Size, file.Mode, file.UID, file.GID,
+			file.LinkTarget.String())
+		err = tx.QueryRowContext(ctx, query,
+			file.ID.String(), file.Path.String(), file.SourcePath.String(),
+			file.MTime.Unix(), file.MTime.Nanosecond(),
+			file.Size, file.Mode, file.UID, file.GID,
+			file.LinkTarget.String()).Scan(&idStr)
 	} else {
-		_, err = r.db.ExecWithLock(ctx, query, file.Path, file.MTime.Unix(), file.CTime.Unix(), file.Size, file.Mode, file.UID, file.GID, file.LinkTarget)
+		err = r.db.QueryRowWithLog(ctx, query,
+			file.ID.String(), file.Path.String(), file.SourcePath.String(),
+			file.MTime.Unix(), file.MTime.Nanosecond(),
+			file.Size, file.Mode, file.UID, file.GID,
+			file.LinkTarget.String()).Scan(&idStr)
 	}
 
 	if err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("inserting file: %w", err)
 	}
 
+	// Parse the returned ID
+	file.ID, err = types.ParseFileID(idStr)
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("parsing file ID: %w", err)
+	}
+
 	return nil
 }
 
+// GetByPath returns the file at the given path, or nil if the path is not
+// in the index.
 func (r *FileRepository) GetByPath(ctx context.Context, path string) (*File, error) {
 	query := `
-		SELECT path, mtime, ctime, size, mode, uid, gid, link_target
+		SELECT id, path, source_path, mtime, mtime_nsec, size, mode, uid, gid, link_target
 		FROM files
 		WHERE path = ?
 	`
 
-	var file File
+	file, err := r.scanFile(r.db.conn.QueryRowContext(ctx, query, path))
-	var mtimeUnix, ctimeUnix int64
+	if errors.Is(err, sql.ErrNoRows) {
-	var linkTarget sql.NullString
+		return nil, nil //nolint:nilnil // nil,nil signals not-found; callers check nil
-
-	err := r.db.conn.QueryRowContext(ctx, query, path).Scan(
-		&file.Path,
-		&mtimeUnix,
-		&ctimeUnix,
-		&file.Size,
-		&file.Mode,
-		&file.UID,
-		&file.GID,
-		&linkTarget,
-	)
-
-	if err == sql.ErrNoRows {
-		return nil, nil
 	}
+
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("querying file: %w", err)
 	}
 
-	file.MTime = time.Unix(mtimeUnix, 0)
+	return file, nil
-	file.CTime = time.Unix(ctimeUnix, 0)
-	if linkTarget.Valid {
-		file.LinkTarget = linkTarget.String
 }
 
-	return &file, nil
+// GetByID retrieves a file by its UUID
-}
+func (r *FileRepository) GetByID(ctx context.Context, id types.FileID) (*File, error) {
-
-func (r *FileRepository) ListModifiedSince(ctx context.Context, since time.Time) ([]*File, error) {
 	query := `
-		SELECT path, mtime, ctime, size, mode, uid, gid, link_target
+		SELECT id, path, source_path, mtime, mtime_nsec, size, mode, uid, gid, link_target
 		FROM files
-		WHERE mtime >= ?
+		WHERE id = ?
+	`
+
+	file, err := r.scanFile(r.db.conn.QueryRowContext(ctx, query, id.String()))
+	if errors.Is(err, sql.ErrNoRows) {
+		return nil, nil //nolint:nilnil // nil,nil signals not-found; callers check nil
+	}
+
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("querying file: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	return file, nil
+}
+
+// GetByPathTx returns the file at the given path within a transaction, or
+// nil if the path is not in the index.
+func (r *FileRepository) GetByPathTx(
+	ctx context.Context, tx *sql.Tx, path string,
+) (*File, error) {
+	query := `
+		SELECT id, path, source_path, mtime, mtime_nsec, size, mode, uid, gid, link_target
+		FROM files
+		WHERE path = ?
+	`
+
+	LogSQL("GetByPathTx QueryRowContext", query, path)
+	file, err := r.scanFile(tx.QueryRowContext(ctx, query, path))
+	LogSQL("GetByPathTx Scan complete", query, path)
+
+	if errors.Is(err, sql.ErrNoRows) {
+		return nil, nil //nolint:nilnil // nil,nil signals not-found; callers check nil
+	}
+
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("querying file: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	return file, nil
+}
+
+// fileRowScanner abstracts *sql.Row and *sql.Rows for scanning a file row.
+type fileRowScanner interface {
+	Scan(dest ...any) error
+}
+
+// ListModifiedSince returns all files whose recorded mtime is at or after
+// since, ordered by path.
+func (r *FileRepository) ListModifiedSince(
+	ctx context.Context, since time.Time,
+) ([]*File, error) {
+	query := `
+		SELECT id, path, source_path, mtime, mtime_nsec, size, mode, uid, gid, link_target
+		FROM files
+		WHERE (mtime, mtime_nsec) >= (?, ?)
 		ORDER BY path
 	`
 
-	rows, err := r.db.conn.QueryContext(ctx, query, since.Unix())
+	rows, err := r.db.conn.QueryContext(ctx, query,
+		since.Unix(), since.Nanosecond())
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("querying files: %w", err)
 	}
-	defer CloseRows(rows)
+
+	defer func() { _ = rows.Close() }()
 
 	var files []*File
-	for rows.Next() {
-		var file File
-		var mtimeUnix, ctimeUnix int64
-		var linkTarget sql.NullString
 
-		err := rows.Scan(
+	for rows.Next() {
-			&file.Path,
+		file, err := r.scanFileRows(rows)
-			&mtimeUnix,
-			&ctimeUnix,
-			&file.Size,
-			&file.Mode,
-			&file.UID,
-			&file.GID,
-			&linkTarget,
-		)
 		if err != nil {
 			return nil, fmt.Errorf("scanning file: %w", err)
 		}
 
-		file.MTime = time.Unix(mtimeUnix, 0)
+		files = append(files, file)
-		file.CTime = time.Unix(ctimeUnix, 0)
-		if linkTarget.Valid {
-			file.LinkTarget = linkTarget.String
-		}
-
-		files = append(files, &file)
 	}
 
 	return files, rows.Err()
 }
 
+// Delete removes the file row at the given path, using tx when non-nil.
 func (r *FileRepository) Delete(ctx context.Context, tx *sql.Tx, path string) error {
 	query := `DELETE FROM files WHERE path = ?`
 
@@ -134,7 +199,7 @@ func (r *FileRepository) Delete(ctx context.Context, tx *sql.Tx, path string) er
 	if tx != nil {
 		_, err = tx.ExecContext(ctx, query, path)
 	} else {
-		_, err = r.db.ExecWithLock(ctx, query, path)
+		_, err = r.db.ExecWithLog(ctx, query, path)
 	}
 
 	if err != nil {
@@ -143,3 +208,317 @@ func (r *FileRepository) Delete(ctx context.Context, tx *sql.Tx, path string) er
 
 	return nil
 }
+
+// DeleteByID deletes a file by its UUID
+func (r *FileRepository) DeleteByID(
+	ctx context.Context, tx *sql.Tx, id types.FileID,
+) error {
+	query := `DELETE FROM files WHERE id = ?`
+
+	var err error
+	if tx != nil {
+		_, err = tx.ExecContext(ctx, query, id.String())
+	} else {
+		_, err = r.db.ExecWithLog(ctx, query, id.String())
+	}
+
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("deleting file: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	return nil
+}
+
+// ListUnderPath returns the file at path and every file beneath it,
+// ordered by path. Paths are compared case-sensitively, and a trailing
+// slash on path is ignored, so "/" lists every file.
+func (r *FileRepository) ListUnderPath(
+	ctx context.Context, path string,
+) ([]*File, error) {
+	path = strings.TrimRight(path, "/")
+	dirPrefix := path + "/"
+
+	// LIKE would ignore ASCII case and treat _ and % in path as wildcards.
+	query := `
+		SELECT id, path, source_path, mtime, mtime_nsec, size, mode, uid, gid, link_target
+		FROM files
+		WHERE path = ? OR substr(path, 1, length(?)) = ?
+		ORDER BY path
+	`
+
+	rows, err := r.db.conn.QueryContext(ctx, query, path, dirPrefix, dirPrefix)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("querying files: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	defer func() { _ = rows.Close() }()
+
+	var files []*File
+
+	for rows.Next() {
+		file, err := r.scanFileRows(rows)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("scanning file: %w", err)
+		}
+
+		files = append(files, file)
+	}
+
+	return files, rows.Err()
+}
+
+// ListUnderPathInSnapshot returns the files that ListUnderPath returns
+// for path and that the snapshot lists, in no particular order.
+func (r *FileRepository) ListUnderPathInSnapshot(
+	ctx context.Context, path, snapshotID string,
+) ([]*File, error) {
+	path = strings.TrimRight(path, "/")
+	dirPrefix := path + "/"
+
+	query := `
+		SELECT f.id, f.path, f.source_path, f.mtime, f.mtime_nsec, f.size,
+			f.mode, f.uid, f.gid, f.link_target
+		FROM files f
+		JOIN snapshot_files sf ON sf.file_id = f.id
+		WHERE sf.snapshot_id = ?
+		  AND (f.path = ? OR substr(f.path, 1, length(?)) = ?)
+	`
+
+	rows, err := r.db.conn.QueryContext(ctx, query,
+		snapshotID, path, dirPrefix, dirPrefix)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("querying files: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	defer func() { _ = rows.Close() }()
+
+	var files []*File
+
+	for rows.Next() {
+		file, err := r.scanFileRows(rows)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("scanning file: %w", err)
+		}
+
+		files = append(files, file)
+	}
+
+	return files, rows.Err()
+}
+
+// ListIDsWithChunksNotInUploadedBlobs returns the IDs of the files whose
+// path starts with prefix and that list at least one chunk held by no
+// blob whose upload has completed (uploaded_ts set). A new snapshot
+// cannot reference such a chunk, so a backup must not treat the file as
+// unchanged even when its metadata matches the file on disk.
+func (r *FileRepository) ListIDsWithChunksNotInUploadedBlobs(
+	ctx context.Context, prefix string,
+) ([]types.FileID, error) {
+	query := `
+		SELECT DISTINCT f.id
+		FROM files f
+		JOIN file_chunks fc ON fc.file_id = f.id
+		WHERE f.path LIKE ? || '%'
+		  AND NOT EXISTS (
+			SELECT 1
+			FROM blob_chunks bc
+			JOIN blobs b ON bc.blob_id = b.id
+			WHERE bc.chunk_hash = fc.chunk_hash
+			  AND b.uploaded_ts IS NOT NULL
+		  )
+	`
+
+	rows, err := r.db.conn.QueryContext(ctx, query, prefix)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("querying files: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	defer func() { _ = rows.Close() }()
+
+	var ids []types.FileID
+
+	for rows.Next() {
+		var id types.FileID
+
+		err := rows.Scan(&id)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("scanning file ID: %w", err)
+		}
+
+		ids = append(ids, id)
+	}
+
+	return ids, rows.Err()
+}
+
+// ListAll returns all files in the database
+func (r *FileRepository) ListAll(ctx context.Context) ([]*File, error) {
+	query := `
+		SELECT id, path, source_path, mtime, mtime_nsec, size, mode, uid, gid, link_target
+		FROM files
+		ORDER BY path
+	`
+
+	rows, err := r.db.conn.QueryContext(ctx, query)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("querying files: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	defer func() { _ = rows.Close() }()
+
+	var files []*File
+
+	for rows.Next() {
+		file, err := r.scanFileRows(rows)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("scanning file: %w", err)
+		}
+
+		files = append(files, file)
+	}
+
+	return files, rows.Err()
+}
+
+// CreateBatch inserts or updates multiple files in a single statement for efficiency.
+// File IDs must be pre-generated before calling this method.
+func (r *FileRepository) CreateBatch(
+	ctx context.Context, tx *sql.Tx, files []*File,
+) error {
+	if len(files) == 0 {
+		return nil
+	}
+
+	// Each files row binds this many SQL variables.
+	const fileCols = 10
+
+	// Batch at 100 rows to be safe with SQLite's variable limit.
+	const batchSize = 100
+
+	for i := 0; i < len(files); i += batchSize {
+		end := min(i+batchSize, len(files))
+
+		batch := files[i:end]
+
+		query := `INSERT INTO files
+			(id, path, source_path, mtime, mtime_nsec, size, mode, uid, gid, link_target)
+			VALUES `
+
+		args := make([]any, 0, len(batch)*fileCols)
+
+		var querySb325 strings.Builder
+
+		for j, f := range batch {
+			if j > 0 {
+				querySb325.WriteString(", ")
+			}
+
+			querySb325.WriteString("(?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)")
+
+			args = append(args,
+				f.ID.String(), f.Path.String(), f.SourcePath.String(),
+				f.MTime.Unix(), f.MTime.Nanosecond(),
+				f.Size, f.Mode, f.UID, f.GID,
+				f.LinkTarget.String())
+		}
+
+		query += querySb325.String()
+
+		query += ` ON CONFLICT(path) DO UPDATE SET
+			source_path = excluded.source_path,
+			mtime = excluded.mtime,
+			mtime_nsec = excluded.mtime_nsec,
+			size = excluded.size,
+			mode = excluded.mode,
+			uid = excluded.uid,
+			gid = excluded.gid,
+			link_target = excluded.link_target`
+
+		var err error
+		if tx != nil {
+			_, err = tx.ExecContext(ctx, query, args...)
+		} else {
+			_, err = r.db.ExecWithLog(ctx, query, args...)
+		}
+
+		if err != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("batch inserting files: %w", err)
+		}
+	}
+
+	return nil
+}
+
+// DeleteOrphaned deletes files that are not referenced by any snapshot
+func (r *FileRepository) DeleteOrphaned(ctx context.Context) error {
+	query := `
+		DELETE FROM files
+		WHERE NOT EXISTS (
+			SELECT 1 FROM snapshot_files
+			WHERE snapshot_files.file_id = files.id
+		)
+	`
+
+	result, err := r.db.ExecWithLog(ctx, query)
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("deleting orphaned files: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	rowsAffected, _ := result.RowsAffected()
+	if rowsAffected > 0 {
+		log.Debug("Deleted orphaned files", "count", rowsAffected)
+	}
+
+	return nil
+}
+
+// scanFile is a helper that scans a single file row
+func (r *FileRepository) scanFile(row *sql.Row) (*File, error) {
+	return r.scanFileFrom(row)
+}
+
+// scanFileRows is a helper that scans a file row from rows iterator
+func (r *FileRepository) scanFileRows(rows *sql.Rows) (*File, error) {
+	return r.scanFileFrom(rows)
+}
+
+// scanFileFrom scans one file row from any row scanner.
+func (r *FileRepository) scanFileFrom(row fileRowScanner) (*File, error) {
+	var (
+		file                          File
+		idStr, pathStr, sourcePathStr string
+		mtimeUnix, mtimeNsec          int64
+		linkTarget                    sql.NullString
+	)
+
+	err := row.Scan(
+		&idStr,
+		&pathStr,
+		&sourcePathStr,
+		&mtimeUnix,
+		&mtimeNsec,
+		&file.Size,
+		&file.Mode,
+		&file.UID,
+		&file.GID,
+		&linkTarget,
+	)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	file.ID, err = types.ParseFileID(idStr)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("parsing file ID: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	file.Path = types.FilePath(pathStr)
+	file.SourcePath = types.SourcePath(sourcePathStr)
+
+	file.MTime = time.Unix(mtimeUnix, mtimeNsec).UTC()
+	if linkTarget.Valid {
+		file.LinkTarget = types.FilePath(linkTarget.String)
+	}
+
+	return &file, nil
+}

internal/database/files_test.go

@@ -1,45 +1,35 @@
-package database
+package database_test
 
 import (
 	"context"
 	"database/sql"
-	"fmt"
+	"errors"
 	"os"
-	"path/filepath"
+	"slices"
 	"testing"
 	"time"
+
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/database"
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/types"
 )
 
-func setupTestDB(t *testing.T) (*DB, func()) {
+// errTestRollback is the sentinel returned from transaction bodies to
-	ctx := context.Background()
+// force a rollback in tests.
-	dbPath := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "test.db")
+var errTestRollback = errors.New("test rollback")
-
-	db, err := New(ctx, dbPath)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("failed to create database: %v", err)
-	}
-
-	cleanup := func() {
-		if err := db.Close(); err != nil {
-			t.Errorf("failed to close database: %v", err)
-		}
-	}
-
-	return db, cleanup
-}
 
 func TestFileRepository(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
 	db, cleanup := setupTestDB(t)
 	defer cleanup()
 
 	ctx := context.Background()
-	repo := NewFileRepository(db)
+	repo := database.NewFileRepository(db)
 
 	// Test Create
-	file := &File{
+	file := &database.File{
-		Path:       "/test/file.txt",
+		Path:       testFileTxt,
 		MTime:      time.Now().Truncate(time.Second),
-		CTime:      time.Now().Truncate(time.Second),
 		Size:       1024,
 		Mode:       0644,
 		UID:        1000,
@@ -53,22 +43,27 @@ func TestFileRepository(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 
 	// Test GetByPath
-	retrieved, err := repo.GetByPath(ctx, file.Path)
+	retrieved, err := repo.GetByPath(ctx, file.Path.String())
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("failed to get file: %v", err)
 	}
+
 	if retrieved == nil {
 		t.Fatal("expected file, got nil")
 	}
+
 	if retrieved.Path != file.Path {
 		t.Errorf("path mismatch: got %s, want %s", retrieved.Path, file.Path)
 	}
+
 	if !retrieved.MTime.Equal(file.MTime) {
 		t.Errorf("mtime mismatch: got %v, want %v", retrieved.MTime, file.MTime)
 	}
+
 	if retrieved.Size != file.Size {
 		t.Errorf("size mismatch: got %d, want %d", retrieved.Size, file.Size)
 	}
+
 	if retrieved.Mode != file.Mode {
 		t.Errorf("mode mismatch: got %o, want %o", retrieved.Mode, file.Mode)
 	}
@@ -76,55 +71,219 @@ func TestFileRepository(t *testing.T) {
 	// Test Update (upsert)
 	file.Size = 2048
 	file.MTime = time.Now().Truncate(time.Second)
+
 	err = repo.Create(ctx, nil, file)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("failed to update file: %v", err)
 	}
 
-	retrieved, err = repo.GetByPath(ctx, file.Path)
+	retrieved, err = repo.GetByPath(ctx, file.Path.String())
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("failed to get updated file: %v", err)
 	}
+
 	if retrieved.Size != 2048 {
 		t.Errorf("size not updated: got %d, want %d", retrieved.Size, 2048)
 	}
+}
+
+func TestFileRepositoryListDelete(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	db, cleanup := setupTestDB(t)
+	defer cleanup()
+
+	ctx := context.Background()
+	repo := database.NewFileRepository(db)
+
+	file := &database.File{
+		Path:  testFileTxt,
+		MTime: time.Now().Truncate(time.Second),
+		Size:  1024,
+		Mode:  0644,
+		UID:   1000,
+		GID:   1000,
+	}
+
+	err := repo.Create(ctx, nil, file)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to create file: %v", err)
+	}
 
 	// Test ListModifiedSince
 	files, err := repo.ListModifiedSince(ctx, time.Now().Add(-1*time.Hour))
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("failed to list files: %v", err)
 	}
+
 	if len(files) != 1 {
 		t.Errorf("expected 1 file, got %d", len(files))
 	}
 
 	// Test Delete
-	err = repo.Delete(ctx, nil, file.Path)
+	err = repo.Delete(ctx, nil, file.Path.String())
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("failed to delete file: %v", err)
 	}
 
-	retrieved, err = repo.GetByPath(ctx, file.Path)
+	retrieved, err := repo.GetByPath(ctx, file.Path.String())
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("error getting deleted file: %v", err)
 	}
+
 	if retrieved != nil {
 		t.Error("expected nil for deleted file")
 	}
 }
 
-func TestFileRepositorySymlink(t *testing.T) {
+func TestFileRepositoryListUnderPath(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
 	db, cleanup := setupTestDB(t)
 	defer cleanup()
 
 	ctx := context.Background()
-	repo := NewFileRepository(db)
+	repo := database.NewFileRepository(db)
+
+	const (
+		docDir  = "/home/u/doc"
+		docFile = "/home/u/doc/a.txt"
+	)
+
+	// In path order, so the root case can expect all of them as listed.
+	paths := []string{
+		"/home/u/50%/x.txt",
+		"/home/u/50percent/y.txt",
+		"/home/u/DOC/c.txt",
+		"/home/u/a_b/x.txt",
+		"/home/u/axb/y.txt",
+		docDir,
+		"/home/u/doc.txt.bak",
+		docFile,
+		"/home/u/doc/sub/b.txt",
+		"/home/u/doc2/b.txt",
+	}
+
+	for _, path := range paths {
+		err := repo.Create(ctx, nil, &database.File{
+			Path:  types.FilePath(path),
+			MTime: time.Now().Truncate(time.Second),
+			Mode:  0644,
+		})
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("failed to create %s: %v", path, err)
+		}
+	}
+
+	docTree := []string{docDir, docFile, "/home/u/doc/sub/b.txt"}
+
+	tests := []struct {
+		name string
+		path string
+		want []string
+	}{
+		{"directory", docDir, docTree},
+		{"directory with trailing slash", docDir + "/", docTree},
+		{"directory differing only in case", "/home/u/DOC",
+			[]string{"/home/u/DOC/c.txt"}},
+		{"file", docFile, []string{docFile}},
+		{"underscore is literal", "/home/u/a_b",
+			[]string{"/home/u/a_b/x.txt"}},
+		{"percent is literal", "/home/u/50%",
+			[]string{"/home/u/50%/x.txt"}},
+		{"root", "/", paths},
+	}
+
+	for _, tt := range tests {
+		files, err := repo.ListUnderPath(ctx, tt.path)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("%s: failed to list files: %v", tt.name, err)
+		}
+
+		got := make([]string, 0, len(files))
+		for _, f := range files {
+			got = append(got, f.Path.String())
+		}
+
+		if !slices.Equal(got, tt.want) {
+			t.Errorf("%s: listing %q got %q, want %q",
+				tt.name, tt.path, got, tt.want)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// ListUnderPathInSnapshot leaves out files outside path and files the
+// snapshot does not list, though another snapshot lists them.
+func TestFileRepositoryListUnderPathInSnapshot(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	db, cleanup := setupTestDB(t)
+	defer cleanup()
+
+	ctx := context.Background()
+	files := database.NewFileRepository(db)
+	snapshots := database.NewSnapshotRepository(db)
+
+	listed := map[string][]string{
+		"one": {"/src/a.txt", "/src2/c.txt"},
+		"two": {"/src/b.txt"},
+	}
+
+	for snapshotID, paths := range listed {
+		err := snapshots.Create(ctx, nil, &database.Snapshot{
+			ID:        types.SnapshotID(snapshotID),
+			Hostname:  "host",
+			StartedAt: time.Now(),
+		})
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("failed to create snapshot %s: %v", snapshotID, err)
+		}
+
+		for _, path := range paths {
+			err := files.Create(ctx, nil, &database.File{
+				Path:  types.FilePath(path),
+				MTime: time.Now().Truncate(time.Second),
+				Mode:  0644,
+			})
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatalf("failed to create %s: %v", path, err)
+			}
+
+			err = snapshots.AddFile(ctx, nil, snapshotID, path)
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatalf("failed to add %s to %s: %v", path, snapshotID, err)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	found, err := files.ListUnderPathInSnapshot(ctx, "/src", "one")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to list files: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	got := make([]string, 0, len(found))
+	for _, f := range found {
+		got = append(got, f.Path.String())
+	}
+
+	if !slices.Equal(got, []string{"/src/a.txt"}) {
+		t.Errorf("got %q, want only /src/a.txt", got)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestFileRepositorySymlink(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	db, cleanup := setupTestDB(t)
+	defer cleanup()
+
+	ctx := context.Background()
+	repo := database.NewFileRepository(db)
 
 	// Test symlink
-	symlink := &File{
+	symlink := &database.File{
 		Path:       "/test/link",
 		MTime:      time.Now().Truncate(time.Second),
-		CTime:      time.Now().Truncate(time.Second),
 		Size:       0,
 		Mode:       uint32(0777 | os.ModeSymlink),
 		UID:        1000,
@@ -137,54 +296,168 @@ func TestFileRepositorySymlink(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("failed to create symlink: %v", err)
 	}
 
-	retrieved, err := repo.GetByPath(ctx, symlink.Path)
+	retrieved, err := repo.GetByPath(ctx, symlink.Path.String())
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("failed to get symlink: %v", err)
 	}
+
 	if !retrieved.IsSymlink() {
 		t.Error("expected IsSymlink() to be true")
 	}
+
 	if retrieved.LinkTarget != symlink.LinkTarget {
-		t.Errorf("link target mismatch: got %s, want %s", retrieved.LinkTarget, symlink.LinkTarget)
+		t.Errorf("link target mismatch: got %s, want %s",
+			retrieved.LinkTarget, symlink.LinkTarget)
 	}
 }
 
-func TestFileRepositoryTransaction(t *testing.T) {
+// An mtime after 2262 or before 1678 does not fit in int64 nanoseconds
+// since the epoch, and must still come back from the database unchanged.
+func TestFileRepositoryMTimeOutsideInt64NanosecondRange(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
 	db, cleanup := setupTestDB(t)
 	defer cleanup()
 
 	ctx := context.Background()
-	repos := NewRepositories(db)
+	repo := database.NewFileRepository(db)
+
+	mtimes := []time.Time{
+		time.Date(2300, time.January, 1, 0, 0, 0, 123456789, time.UTC),
+		time.Date(1601, time.January, 1, 0, 0, 0, 987654321, time.UTC),
+	}
+
+	for _, mtime := range mtimes {
+		created := &database.File{
+			Path:  types.FilePath("/created-" + mtime.Format(time.RFC3339Nano)),
+			MTime: mtime,
+		}
+
+		err := repo.Create(ctx, nil, created)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("failed to create file: %v", err)
+		}
+
+		batched := &database.File{
+			ID:    types.NewFileID(),
+			Path:  types.FilePath("/batched-" + mtime.Format(time.RFC3339Nano)),
+			MTime: mtime,
+		}
+
+		err = repo.CreateBatch(ctx, nil, []*database.File{batched})
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("failed to batch create file: %v", err)
+		}
+
+		for _, path := range []types.FilePath{created.Path, batched.Path} {
+			retrieved, err := repo.GetByPath(ctx, path.String())
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatalf("failed to get file: %v", err)
+			}
+
+			if !retrieved.MTime.Equal(mtime) {
+				t.Errorf("%s: mtime got %v, want %v",
+					path, retrieved.MTime, mtime)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// A file already in the index and rewritten within the same second must get
+// its new nanoseconds stored, through both Create and CreateBatch.
+func TestFileRepositoryUpsertMTimeInSameSecond(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	db, cleanup := setupTestDB(t)
+	defer cleanup()
+
+	ctx := context.Background()
+	repo := database.NewFileRepository(db)
+
+	indexed := time.Date(2026, time.October, 7, 12, 0, 0, 100000000, time.UTC)
+	rewritten := indexed.Add(800 * time.Millisecond)
+
+	tests := []struct {
+		name   string
+		upsert func(file *database.File) error
+	}{
+		{"Create", func(file *database.File) error {
+			return repo.Create(ctx, nil, file)
+		}},
+		{"CreateBatch", func(file *database.File) error {
+			return repo.CreateBatch(ctx, nil, []*database.File{file})
+		}},
+	}
+
+	for _, tt := range tests {
+		file := &database.File{
+			ID:    types.NewFileID(),
+			Path:  types.FilePath("/" + tt.name),
+			MTime: indexed,
+		}
+
+		err := tt.upsert(file)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("%s: failed to create file: %v", tt.name, err)
+		}
+
+		file.MTime = rewritten
+
+		err = tt.upsert(file)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("%s: failed to update file: %v", tt.name, err)
+		}
+
+		retrieved, err := repo.GetByPath(ctx, file.Path.String())
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("%s: failed to get file: %v", tt.name, err)
+		}
+
+		if !retrieved.MTime.Equal(rewritten) {
+			t.Errorf("%s: mtime got %v, want %v",
+				tt.name, retrieved.MTime, rewritten)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestFileRepositoryTransaction(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	db, cleanup := setupTestDB(t)
+	defer cleanup()
+
+	ctx := context.Background()
+	repos := database.NewRepositories(db)
 
 	// Test transaction rollback
 	err := repos.WithTx(ctx, func(ctx context.Context, tx *sql.Tx) error {
-		file := &File{
+		file := &database.File{
-			Path:  "/test/tx_file.txt",
+			Path:  testTxFile,
 			MTime: time.Now().Truncate(time.Second),
-			CTime: time.Now().Truncate(time.Second),
 			Size:  1024,
 			Mode:  0644,
 			UID:   1000,
 			GID:   1000,
 		}
 
-		if err := repos.Files.Create(ctx, tx, file); err != nil {
+		err := repos.Files.Create(ctx, tx, file)
+		if err != nil {
 			return err
 		}
 
 		// Return error to trigger rollback
-		return fmt.Errorf("test rollback")
+		return errTestRollback
 	})
-
+	if !errors.Is(err, errTestRollback) {
-	if err == nil || err.Error() != "test rollback" {
 		t.Fatalf("expected rollback error, got: %v", err)
 	}
 
 	// Verify file was not created
-	retrieved, err := repos.Files.GetByPath(ctx, "/test/tx_file.txt")
+	retrieved, err := repos.Files.GetByPath(ctx, testTxFile)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("error checking for file: %v", err)
 	}
+
 	if retrieved != nil {
 		t.Error("file should not exist after rollback")
 	}

internal/database/helpers_internal_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+package database
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"testing"
+
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/types"
+)
+
+// Common fixture values shared by the internal repository tests.
+const (
+	internalTestHost       = "test-host"
+	internalTestSnapshotID = "test-snapshot"
+	internalTestFilePath   = "/test.txt"
+	internalTestFile1      = "/file1.txt"
+	internalTestFile2      = "/file2.txt"
+
+	// countFilesQuery counts the rows of the files table.
+	countFilesQuery = "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM files"
+)
+
+// mustCreateFileRow inserts the file row, failing the test on error.
+func mustCreateFileRow(t *testing.T, repos *Repositories, file *File) {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	err := repos.Files.Create(context.Background(), nil, file)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to create file %s: %v", file.Path, err)
+	}
+}
+
+// mustAddFileToSnapshot associates a file with a snapshot, failing the
+// test on error.
+func mustAddFileToSnapshot(
+	t *testing.T, repos *Repositories, snapshotID string, fileID types.FileID,
+) {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	err := repos.Snapshots.AddFileByID(context.Background(), nil, snapshotID, fileID)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+}
+
+// setupTestDB creates an on-disk test database in a per-test temp
+// directory and returns it along with a cleanup func that closes it.
+func setupTestDB(t *testing.T) (*DB, func()) {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	ctx := context.Background()
+	dbPath := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "test.db")
+
+	db, err := New(ctx, dbPath)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to create database: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	cleanup := func() {
+		err := db.Close()
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Errorf("failed to close database: %v", err)
+		}
+	}
+
+	return db, cleanup
+}
+
+// countRow runs a single-integer COUNT-style query and returns the value.
+func countRow(t *testing.T, db *DB, query string, args ...any) int {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	var count int
+
+	err := db.conn.QueryRowContext(context.Background(), query, args...).Scan(&count)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+
+	return count
+}

internal/database/helpers_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+package database_test
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"testing"
+
+	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/database"
+)
+
+// Common fixture values shared by the repository tests.
+const (
+	testFilePath1 = "/file1.txt"
+	testFilePath2 = "/file2.txt"
+	testFileTxt   = "/test/file.txt"
+	testTxFile    = "/test/tx_file.txt"
+	testHostname  = "test-host"
+	testVersion   = "1.0.0"
+)
+
+// mustCreateFile inserts the given file row, failing the test on error.
+func mustCreateFile(t *testing.T, repo *database.FileRepository, file *database.File) {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	err := repo.Create(context.Background(), nil, file)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to create file %s: %v", file.Path, err)
+	}
+}
+
+// setupTestDB creates an on-disk test database in a per-test temp
+// directory and returns it along with a cleanup func that closes it.
+func setupTestDB(t *testing.T) (*database.DB, func()) {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	ctx := context.Background()
+	dbPath := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "test.db")
+
+	db, err := database.New(ctx, dbPath)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to create database: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	cleanup := func() {
+		err := db.Close()
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Errorf("failed to close database: %v", err)
+		}
+	}
+
+	return db, cleanup
+}

internal/database/local_meta.go

@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+package database
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"database/sql"
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+)
+
+// LocalMetaKeyStorageURL is the key under which the destination store's
+// URL is recorded when a mutating command first binds the local index
+// to a specific backup destination.
+const LocalMetaKeyStorageURL = "storage_url"
+
+// LocalMetaRepository provides keyed access to host-local settings
+// stored in the local_meta table.
+type LocalMetaRepository struct {
+	db *DB
+}
+
+// NewLocalMetaRepository creates a LocalMetaRepository backed by db.
+func NewLocalMetaRepository(db *DB) *LocalMetaRepository {
+	return &LocalMetaRepository{db: db}
+}
+
+// Get returns the value stored at key, or the empty string if the key
+// is not set. A missing key is not an error — the caller distinguishes
+// "unset" (bind on first use) from "set to something" (compare).
+func (r *LocalMetaRepository) Get(ctx context.Context, key string) (string, error) {
+	var value string
+
+	err := r.db.conn.QueryRowContext(ctx,
+		"SELECT value FROM local_meta WHERE key = ?", key,
+	).Scan(&value)
+	if errors.Is(err, sql.ErrNoRows) {
+		return "", nil
+	}
+
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("reading local_meta %q: %w", key, err)
+	}
+
+	return value, nil
+}
+
+// Set writes key=value, replacing any prior value.
+func (r *LocalMetaRepository) Set(ctx context.Context, key, value string) error {
+	_, err := r.db.ExecWithLog(ctx,
+		`INSERT INTO local_meta (key, value) VALUES (?, ?)
+		 ON CONFLICT(key) DO UPDATE SET value = excluded.value`,
+		key, value,
+	)
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("writing local_meta %q: %w", key, err)
+	}
+
+	return nil
+}