Make remote nuke delete leftover .partial uploads (closes #281 )

The file and rclone listings skip an object whose name ends in `.partial`, the temporary name a `file://` or rclone upload writes before moving the object into place. `remote nuke` deletes only what the listings return, so it left the `.partial` objects killed uploads leave behind and still reported the destination store empty. Storer gains DeletePartialUploads. The file and rclone backends remove every `.partial` object under the prefix; S3 has none to remove, since it shows an object only once its upload completes. `remote nuke` calls it for `metadata/` and `blobs/` as its last step. Empty directories under a `file://` destination are still left behind. Model: opus-5-5
2026-10-08 09:13:14 +00:00
12 changed files with 52 additions and 453 deletions
@@ -412,8 +412,7 @@ destination store.
 entirely. Remote storage is unaffected; the next backup will do a full
 scan and re-deduplicate against existing remote blobs, and the local
 index will re-bind to the currently configured storage destination.
-Use this after changing `storage_url`, or `s3.endpoint`, `s3.bucket` or
-`s3.prefix`, to a different destination.
+Use this after changing `storage_url` to a different destination.
 * `--force`: Skip confirmation prompt

 ---
@@ -22,42 +22,6 @@ the tag exists and is exercised; what is left is merging `next` to

 # Completed Steps

- 2026-10-13: Made a failed or interrupted backup remove the temporary
-  file of the blob it was packing
-  ([issue #302](https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/vaultik/issues/302)). When
-  `snapshot create` stopped on a file error, a full temporary directory
-  or Ctrl-C, that blob was never finalized and its `vaultik-blob-*.tmp`
-  file, up to `blob_size_limit` of encrypted data, stayed in `$TMPDIR`;
-  every such run left another. Phase 2 now removes it whenever it stops
-  before the last blob is finalized.
-
- 2026-10-12: Bound the local index to the destination an `s3.*` config
-  names ([issue #298](https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/vaultik/issues/298)).
-  Only `storage_url` was checked, so after `s3.bucket` or `s3.prefix`
-  changed, the next backup treated every chunk as already stored,
-  uploaded nothing, and completed a snapshot that could not be restored.
-  Without `storage_url`, the local index is now bound to `s3.endpoint`,
-  `s3.bucket` and `s3.prefix`, and a change is refused as a changed
-  `storage_url` is.
-
- 2026-10-12: Rejected a retention duration longer than about 292 years
-  ([issue #289](https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/vaultik/issues/289)). The
-  number given to `--older-than` or `--keep-newer-than` was multiplied
-  by the length of its unit with no limit, so from `293y`, `15251w`,
-  `3559mo` or `106752d`, or a sum of parts such as `200y200y`, the
-  result wrapped to a negative duration. The cutoff then lay in the
-  future, every snapshot of the name was deleted, the one just made
-  included, and the command exited 0. Such a duration is now rejected
-  as invalid and nothing is deleted.
-
- 2026-10-08: Made a backup cancelled under `--skip-errors` stop at once
-  ([issue #286](https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/vaultik/issues/286)). After
-  Ctrl-C or SIGTERM, phase 2 treated the cancellation error from each
-  remaining file like an unreadable file: it opened the file, printed an
-  error line for it, counted it as failed and went on to the next one.
-  The run now stops at the first file after the cancellation, and no
-  file is counted as failed because of it.
-
 - 2026-10-08: Made `remote nuke` delete the `.partial` files that
  uploads cut off part-way leave on the destination store
  ([issue #281](https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/vaultik/issues/281)). The
@@ -65,15 +29,6 @@ the tag exists and is exercised; what is left is merging `next` to
  place and still reported the store empty. It now removes them under
  `metadata/` and `blobs/` as its last step.

- 2026-10-08: Made a local index error while recording a directory or
-  symlink stop a backup under `--skip-errors`
-  ([issue #284](https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/vaultik/issues/284)). Phase 2
-  only records such an entry in the local index, since it has no data
-  to open or read, but an error doing so was skipped like an unreadable
-  file. The snapshot then completed without the entry, and a restore
-  did not recreate it. The error now stops the backup, as it does
-  without the flag.
-
 - 2026-10-08: Counted a file that a backup could not store as failed
  ([issue #280](https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/vaultik/issues/280)). A file
  that phase 1 counted and phase 2 could not open, because it was
@@ -245,17 +245,6 @@ func (p *Packer) Flush(ctx context.Context) error {
 	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
@@ -1295,11 +1295,6 @@ func (s *Scanner) batchAddFilesToSnapshot(
 func (s *Scanner) processPhase(
 	ctx context.Context, filesToProcess []*FileToProcess, result *ScanResult,
 ) error {
-	// On an error or cancellation the blob being packed is never
-	// finalized, so its temp file must be removed here. After a
-	// successful flush there is no such blob and this does nothing.
-	defer s.packer.DiscardCurrentBlob()
-
 	// Calculate total bytes to process
 	var totalBytes int64
 	for _, f := range filesToProcess {
@@ -1317,13 +1312,6 @@ func (s *Scanner) processPhase(

 	// Process each file
 	for _, fileToProcess := range filesToProcess {
-		// Check context cancellation
-		select {
-		case <-ctx.Done():
-			return ctx.Err()
-		default:
-		}
-
 		// Update progress
 		if s.progress != nil {
 			s.progress.GetStats().CurrentFile.Store(fileToProcess.Path)
@@ -1360,32 +1348,13 @@ func (s *Scanner) processPhase(
 	return s.finalizeProcessPhase(ctx, result)
 }

-// processFileWithErrorHandling records a directory or symlink, or wraps
-// processFileStreaming for a regular file with error recovery for deleted
-// files and skip-errors mode. Returns (skipped, error).
+// processFileWithErrorHandling wraps processFileStreaming with error recovery for
+// deleted files and skip-errors mode. Returns (skipped, error).
 func (s *Scanner) processFileWithErrorHandling(
 	ctx context.Context, fileToProcess *FileToProcess, result *ScanResult,
 ) (bool, error) {
-	// A directory or symlink has no data to open or read; it is only
-	// recorded in the local index. An error recording it stops the run
-	// even under --skip-errors, or the snapshot would complete without it.
-	mode := os.FileMode(fileToProcess.File.Mode)
-	if mode&os.ModeSymlink != 0 || mode.IsDir() {
-		err := s.recordNonRegularFile(ctx, fileToProcess)
-		if err != nil {
-			return false, fmt.Errorf("processing file %s: %w", fileToProcess.Path, err)
-		}
-
-		return false, nil
-	}
-
 	err := s.processFileStreaming(ctx, fileToProcess, result)
 	if err != nil {
-		// A cancelled run stops here even under --skip-errors, rather than
-		// counting this file as failed and going on to the next one.
-		if ctx.Err() != nil {
-			return false, fmt.Errorf("processing file %s: %w", fileToProcess.Path, err)
-		}
 		// A packer/database/encryption/upload failure means the chunk's data
 		// may not have been stored. Skipping the file would let the snapshot
 		// record a file whose chunk is in no blob and cannot be restored, so
@@ -1423,7 +1392,12 @@ func (s *Scanner) processFileWithErrorHandling(

 // countFailedFile counts a file that phase 2 could not store as failed
 // and takes its size back out of BytesScanned, where phase 1 put it.
+// Phase 1 counts no directories, so a directory is not counted here.
 func countFailedFile(fileToProcess *FileToProcess, result *ScanResult) {
+	if fileToProcess.FileInfo.IsDir() {
+		return
+	}
+
 	result.FilesFailed++
 	result.BytesScanned -= fileToProcess.FileInfo.Size()
 }
@@ -1796,11 +1770,16 @@ func (e *packerError) Error() string { return e.err.Error() }

 func (e *packerError) Unwrap() error { return e.err }

-// processFileStreaming processes a regular file by streaming chunks directly
-// to the packer
+// processFileStreaming processes a file by streaming chunks directly to the packer
 func (s *Scanner) processFileStreaming(
 	ctx context.Context, fileToProcess *FileToProcess, result *ScanResult,
 ) error {
+	// Symlinks and directories have no data to chunk — just record them in the DB.
+	mode := os.FileMode(fileToProcess.File.Mode)
+	if mode&os.ModeSymlink != 0 || mode.IsDir() {
+		return s.recordNonRegularFile(ctx, fileToProcess)
+	}
+
 	file, err := s.fs.Open(fileToProcess.Path)
 	if err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("opening file: %w", wrapPermissionError(fileToProcess.Path, err))
@@ -82,32 +82,6 @@ func (f *readFailFs) Open(name string) (afero.File, error) {
 	return file, nil
 }

-// cancelOnOpenFs cancels the run when the scanner opens the target file to
-// back it up, as Ctrl-C partway through processing would, and records each
-// file opened after that.
-type cancelOnOpenFs struct {
-	afero.Fs
-
-	target            string
-	cancel            context.CancelFunc
-	cancelled         bool
-	openedAfterCancel []string
-}
-
-//nolint:ireturn // afero.Fs.Open is defined to return the interface.
-func (f *cancelOnOpenFs) Open(name string) (afero.File, error) {
-	if f.cancelled {
-		f.openedAfterCancel = append(f.openedAfterCancel, name)
-	}
-
-	if name == f.target {
-		f.cancel()
-		f.cancelled = true
-	}
-
-	return f.Fs.Open(name)
-}
-
 // linkRemovedAfterLstatFs is the real filesystem, except that the symlink at
 // target is removed right after the walk lstats it, as happens when a link is
 // deleted during a backup. The scanner's readlink of it then fails.
@@ -154,16 +128,15 @@ func writeSkipErrorTestFile(t *testing.T, fs afero.Fs, path, content string) {
 	}
 }

-// runSkipErrorScan scans source on fs under ctx with the given skip-errors
-// setting, printing user-facing messages to uiw (nil discards them), and
-// returns the repositories (for inspection) and the scan error.
+// runSkipErrorScan scans source on fs with the given skip-errors setting,
+// printing user-facing messages to uiw (nil discards them), and returns the
+// repositories (for inspection) and the scan error.
 func runSkipErrorScan(
-	ctx context.Context, t *testing.T, fs afero.Fs, source string,
-	skipErrors bool, uiw *ui.Writer,
+	t *testing.T, fs afero.Fs, source string, skipErrors bool, uiw *ui.Writer,
 ) (*database.Repositories, error) {
 	t.Helper()

-	db, err := database.New(ctx, ":memory:")
+	db, err := database.NewTestDB()
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("create test db: %v", err)
 	}
@@ -188,6 +161,7 @@ func runSkipErrorScan(
 		SkipErrors:       skipErrors,
 	})

+	ctx := context.Background()
 	snapshotID := "test-snapshot-skip-errors"
 	createTestSnapshotRecord(ctx, t, repos, snapshotID)

@@ -211,7 +185,7 @@ func TestScannerPackingFailureAbortsUnderSkipErrors(t *testing.T) {
 	writeSkipErrorTestFile(t, fs, "/source/file1.txt", "first file content")
 	writeSkipErrorTestFile(t, fs, "/source/file2.txt", "second file content")

-	repos, err := runSkipErrorScan(context.Background(), t, fs, "/source", true, nil)
+	repos, err := runSkipErrorScan(t, fs, "/source", true, nil)
 	if err == nil {
 		t.Fatal("expected scan to abort on the packer error, got nil")
 	}
@@ -238,7 +212,7 @@ func TestScannerReadErrorAbortsWithoutSkipErrors(t *testing.T) {
 	fs := &readFailFs{Fs: afero.NewMemMapFs(), target: target}
 	writeSkipErrorTestFile(t, fs, target, "content that cannot be read")

-	_, err := runSkipErrorScan(context.Background(), t, fs, "/source", false, nil)
+	_, err := runSkipErrorScan(t, fs, "/source", false, nil)
 	if err == nil {
 		t.Fatal("expected scan to fail on the read error, got nil")
 	}
@@ -254,7 +228,7 @@ func TestScannerReadErrorSkippedWithSkipErrors(t *testing.T) {
 	fs := &readFailFs{Fs: afero.NewMemMapFs(), target: target}
 	writeSkipErrorTestFile(t, fs, target, "content that cannot be read")

-	repos, err := runSkipErrorScan(context.Background(), t, fs, "/source", true, nil)
+	repos, err := runSkipErrorScan(t, fs, "/source", true, nil)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("expected scan to complete with --skip-errors, got %v", err)
 	}
@@ -293,7 +267,7 @@ func TestScannerUnreadableSymlinkAbortsWithoutSkipErrors(t *testing.T) {
 	sourceDir, linkPath := writeSymlinkSource(t)
 	fs := &linkRemovedAfterLstatFs{t: t, target: linkPath}

-	_, err := runSkipErrorScan(context.Background(), t, fs, sourceDir, false, nil)
+	_, err := runSkipErrorScan(t, fs, sourceDir, false, nil)
 	if !errors.Is(err, os.ErrNotExist) {
 		t.Fatalf("expected scan to fail on the removed symlink, got %v", err)
 	}
@@ -309,7 +283,7 @@ func TestScannerUnreadableSymlinkSkippedWithSkipErrors(t *testing.T) {
 	fs := &linkRemovedAfterLstatFs{t: t, target: linkPath}
 	uiw := ui.NewWithColor(io.Discard, false)

-	repos, err := runSkipErrorScan(context.Background(), t, fs, sourceDir, true, uiw)
+	repos, err := runSkipErrorScan(t, fs, sourceDir, true, uiw)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("expected scan to complete with --skip-errors, got %v", err)
 	}
@@ -328,113 +302,3 @@ func TestScannerUnreadableSymlinkSkippedWithSkipErrors(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("expected %s not to be recorded", linkPath)
 	}
 }
-
-// TestScannerCancelStopsSkipErrorsRun checks that a --skip-errors backup
-// cancelled partway through processing returns the cancellation error,
-// opens no further file, and reports no file as failed.
-func TestScannerCancelStopsSkipErrorsRun(t *testing.T) {
-	t.Parallel()
-
-	tests := []struct {
-		name          string
-		targetContent string
-	}{
-		// The cancellation lands while the target is being read.
-		{name: "while reading a file", targetContent: "first file content"},
-		// An empty target has no chunks, so the cancellation goes unnoticed
-		// until the run moves on to the next file.
-		{name: "between files", targetContent: ""},
-	}
-
-	for _, tt := range tests {
-		t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
-			t.Parallel()
-
-			const target = "/source/a.txt"
-
-			ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
-			defer cancel()
-
-			fs := &cancelOnOpenFs{
-				Fs: afero.NewMemMapFs(), target: target, cancel: cancel,
-			}
-			writeSkipErrorTestFile(t, fs, target, tt.targetContent)
-			writeSkipErrorTestFile(t, fs, "/source/b.txt", "second file content")
-			writeSkipErrorTestFile(t, fs, "/source/c.txt", "third file content")
-
-			uiw := ui.NewWithColor(io.Discard, false)
-
-			_, err := runSkipErrorScan(ctx, t, fs, "/source", true, uiw)
-			if !errors.Is(err, context.Canceled) {
-				t.Fatalf("expected the cancellation error, got %v", err)
-			}
-
-			if len(fs.openedAfterCancel) != 0 {
-				t.Fatalf("expected no file opened after the cancellation, got %v",
-					fs.openedAfterCancel)
-			}
-
-			if uiw.ErrorCount() != 0 {
-				t.Fatalf("expected no file reported as failed, got %d error lines",
-					uiw.ErrorCount())
-			}
-		})
-	}
-}
-
-// TestScannerRemovesBlobTempFileWhenRunStops checks that a run stopped
-// part-way, by a file it cannot read or by a cancellation, removes the
-// temp file of the blob it was packing.
-func TestScannerRemovesBlobTempFileWhenRunStops(t *testing.T) {
-	t.Parallel()
-
-	// a.txt is backed up first and starts a blob; the run stops at b.txt.
-	const target = "/source/b.txt"
-
-	tests := []struct {
-		name  string
-		newFs func(cancel context.CancelFunc) afero.Fs
-	}{
-		{
-			name: "file cannot be read",
-			newFs: func(context.CancelFunc) afero.Fs {
-				return &readFailFs{Fs: afero.NewMemMapFs(), target: target}
-			},
-		},
-		{
-			name: "cancelled",
-			newFs: func(cancel context.CancelFunc) afero.Fs {
-				return &cancelOnOpenFs{
-					Fs: afero.NewMemMapFs(), target: target, cancel: cancel,
-				}
-			},
-		},
-	}
-
-	for _, tt := range tests {
-		t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
-			t.Parallel()
-
-			ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
-			defer cancel()
-
-			fs := tt.newFs(cancel)
-			writeSkipErrorTestFile(t, fs, "/source/a.txt", "first file content")
-			writeSkipErrorTestFile(t, fs, target, "second file content")
-
-			_, err := runSkipErrorScan(ctx, t, fs, "/source", false, nil)
-			if err == nil {
-				t.Fatal("expected the scan to stop with an error, got nil")
-			}
-
-			left, err := afero.Glob(fs, filepath.Join(os.TempDir(), "vaultik-blob-*"))
-			if err != nil {
-				t.Fatalf("listing blob temp files: %v", err)
-			}
-
-			if len(left) != 0 {
-				t.Fatalf("expected no blob temp file left, got %v", left)
-			}
-		})
-	}
-}
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ package vaultik
 import (
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
-	"math"
 	"regexp"
 	"strconv"
 	"strings"
@@ -48,10 +47,6 @@ const (
 	year  = 365 * day
 )

-// maxDuration is the largest value a time.Duration can hold, about 292
-// years.
-const maxDuration = time.Duration(math.MaxInt64)
-
 // A snapshot ID split on "_" has at least a hostname and a trailing
 // timestamp.
 const minSnapshotIDParts = 2
@@ -150,10 +145,10 @@ func parseSnapshotName(snapshotID, hostname string) string {
 // parseDuration parses a duration string with support for human-friendly units:
 // d/day/days, w/week/weeks, mo/month/months, y/year/years, plus standard Go
 // duration units. Following Go, m is minutes and mo is months. A bare number,
-// an unknown unit, a negative value, and a total longer than maxDuration are
-// all rejected. Outside the Go units the input must be whole numbers each
-// followed directly by a unit (2w3d), so 1.0y and 30 days are errors;
-// decimals work only in Go units (1.5h).
+// an unknown unit, and a negative value are all rejected. Outside the Go
+// units the input must be whole numbers each followed directly by a unit
+// (2w3d), so 1.0y and 30 days are errors; decimals work only in Go units
+// (1.5h).
 func parseDuration(s string) (time.Duration, error) {
 	if strings.HasPrefix(strings.TrimSpace(s), "-") {
 		return 0, errNegativeDuration
@@ -186,30 +181,19 @@ func parseDuration(s string) (time.Duration, error) {
 			return 0, fmt.Errorf("invalid number %q: %w", match[1], err)
 		}

-		var unitLength time.Duration
-
 		unit := strings.ToLower(match[2])
 		switch unit {
 		case "d", "day", "days":
-			unitLength = day
+			total += time.Duration(n) * day
 		case "w", "week", "weeks":
-			unitLength = week
+			total += time.Duration(n) * week
 		case "mo", "month", "months":
-			unitLength = month
+			total += time.Duration(n) * month
 		case "y", "year", "years":
-			unitLength = year
+			total += time.Duration(n) * year
 		default:
 			return 0, fmt.Errorf("%w %q", errUnknownTimeUnit, unit)
 		}
-
-		// Past maxDuration the sum wraps to a negative value, which would
-		// put the purge cutoff in the future.
-		if time.Duration(n) > (maxDuration-total)/unitLength {
-			return 0, fmt.Errorf("%w: %q is longer than about 292 years",
-				errInvalidDuration, s)
-		}
-
-		total += time.Duration(n) * unitLength
 	}

 	return total, nil
@@ -111,17 +111,6 @@ func TestParseDuration(t *testing.T) {
 		{"30 days", 0, true},
 		{"30 days ago", 0, true},
 		{"x7d", 0, true},
-		// The largest time.Duration is about 292 years. A larger value
-		// must be rejected, not wrapped to a negative one, which would
-		// put the cutoff in the future and select every snapshot.
-		{"292y", 292 * 365 * 24 * time.Hour, false},
-		{"293y", 0, true},
-		{"3559mo", 0, true},
-		{"15251w", 0, true},
-		{"106752d", 0, true},
-		{"2562048h", 0, true},
-		{"200y200y", 0, true},
-		{"292y6mo", 0, true},
 	}

 	for _, tt := range tests {
@@ -10,44 +10,30 @@ import (
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
 	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/log"
-	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/snapshot"
 )

 // TestNukeRemoteLeavesNoFiles checks that remote nuke leaves no file
-// under a file:// destination, including the `.partial` files uploads
-// killed part-way leave next to a snapshot's metadata and next to where a
-// blob would have been.
+// under a file:// destination, including the `.partial` file an upload
+// killed part-way leaves next to where its blob would have been.
 func TestNukeRemoteLeavesNoFiles(t *testing.T) {
 	log.Initialize(log.Config{})
 	t.Parallel()

 	ctx := context.Background()
 	storeDir := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "store")
-	v, repos, _ := backUpToFileDestination(ctx, t, storeDir)
+	v, _, _ := backUpToFileDestination(ctx, t, storeDir)

-	snapshots, err := repos.Snapshots.ListRecent(ctx, listRecentTestLimit)
-	require.NoError(t, err)
-	require.Len(t, snapshots, 1)
-
-	snapshotKey := snapshot.RemoteSnapshotKey(snapshots[0].ID.String())
 	hash := testBlobHashA
-	leftovers := []string{
-		filepath.Join(storeDir, "metadata", snapshotKey,
-			"db.zst.age-123456.partial"),
-		filepath.Join(storeDir, "blobs", hash[:2], hash[2:4],
-			hash+"-123456.partial"),
-	}
-
-	for _, leftover := range leftovers {
-		require.NoError(t, os.MkdirAll(filepath.Dir(leftover), 0o750))
-		require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(leftover, []byte("half an upload"), 0o600))
-	}
+	leftover := filepath.Join(storeDir, "blobs", hash[:2], hash[2:4],
+		hash+"-123456.partial")
+	require.NoError(t, os.MkdirAll(filepath.Dir(leftover), 0o750))
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(leftover, []byte("half a blob"), 0o600))

 	require.NoError(t, v.NukeRemote(true))

 	var files []string

-	err = filepath.WalkDir(storeDir,
+	err := filepath.WalkDir(storeDir,
 		func(path string, entry fs.DirEntry, err error) error {
 			if err != nil {
 				return err
@@ -267,29 +267,6 @@ func TestPurgeOlderThan_WithNameFilter(t *testing.T) {
 	assert.Contains(t, remaining, snapHomeT0)
 }

-func TestPurgeOlderThan_TooLargeDeletesNothing(t *testing.T) {
-	log.Initialize(log.Config{})
-	t.Parallel()
-
-	snapshotIDs := []string{snapHomeT0, snapHomeT1}
-
-	v := setupPurgeTest(t, snapHostname, snapshotIDs)
-
-	err := v.PurgeSnapshotsWithOptions(&vaultik.SnapshotPurgeOptions{
-		OlderThan: "1000y",
-		Force:     true,
-	})
-	require.Error(t, err)
-
-	err = v.PurgeSnapshotsWithOptions(&vaultik.SnapshotPurgeOptions{
-		OlderThan: "292y",
-		Force:     true,
-	})
-	require.NoError(t, err)
-
-	assert.ElementsMatch(t, snapshotIDs, listRemainingSnapshots(t, v))
-}
-
 func TestPurgeKeepLatest_ThreeNames(t *testing.T) {
 	log.Initialize(log.Config{})
 	t.Parallel()
@@ -1,75 +0,0 @@
-package vaultik_test
-
-import (
-	"context"
-	"fmt"
-	"path/filepath"
-	"testing"
-
-	"github.com/spf13/afero"
-	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
-	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
-	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/config"
-	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/database"
-	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/log"
-	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/storage"
-	"sneak.berlin/go/vaultik/internal/vaultik"
-)
-
-// --skip-errors skips only a file that cannot be opened or read. A local
-// index error while a directory is recorded stops the backup, and the
-// snapshot is not recorded as complete. See
-// https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/vaultik/issues/284.
-func TestSkipErrorsBackupStopsOnIndexErrorRecordingDirectory(t *testing.T) {
-	log.Initialize(log.Config{})
-	t.Parallel()
-
-	ctx := context.Background()
-
-	// The scan walks the source path with symlinks resolved, so dirPath
-	// must be spelled the same way to match the row the scan inserts.
-	tempDir, err := filepath.EvalSymlinks(t.TempDir())
-	require.NoError(t, err)
-
-	srcDir := filepath.Join(tempDir, "src")
-	dirPath := filepath.Join(srcDir, "dir")
-
-	fs := afero.NewOsFs()
-	require.NoError(t, fs.MkdirAll(dirPath, 0o755))
-	require.NoError(t, afero.WriteFile(fs,
-		filepath.Join(dirPath, "file.txt"), []byte("file content"), 0o644))
-
-	cfg := faultTestConfig()
-	cfg.IndexPath = filepath.Join(tempDir, "index.sqlite")
-	cfg.Snapshots = map[string]config.SnapshotConfig{
-		"tree": {Paths: []string{srcDir}},
-	}
-
-	store, err := storage.NewFileStorer(filepath.Join(tempDir, "remote"))
-	require.NoError(t, err)
-
-	db, err := database.New(ctx, cfg.IndexPath)
-	require.NoError(t, err)
-	t.Cleanup(func() { _ = db.Close() })
-
-	// The local index refuses the directory's files row.
-	_, err = db.Conn().ExecContext(ctx, fmt.Sprintf(`
-		CREATE TRIGGER refuse_directory BEFORE INSERT ON files
-		WHEN NEW.path = '%s'
-		BEGIN SELECT RAISE(ABORT, 'simulated index error'); END`, dirPath))
-	require.NoError(t, err)
-
-	repos := database.NewRepositories(db)
-	v := newBackupVaultik(ctx, cfg, store, repos, db, fs)
-
-	err = v.CreateSnapshot(&vaultik.SnapshotCreateOptions{
-		SkipErrors: true,
-		Snapshots:  []string{"tree"},
-	})
-	require.ErrorContains(t, err, "simulated index error")
-
-	snapshots, err := repos.Snapshots.ListRecent(ctx, listRecentTestLimit)
-	require.NoError(t, err)
-	require.Len(t, snapshots, 1)
-	assert.Nil(t, snapshots[0].CompletedAt)
-}
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import (
 )

 // errStorageBindingMismatch is returned when the local index database is
-// bound to a different destination than the configured one.
+// bound to a different destination than the configured storage_url.
 var errStorageBindingMismatch = errors.New(
 	"local index is bound to a different backup destination")

@@ -24,9 +24,8 @@ var errStorageBindingMismatch = errors.New(
 //
 // Behaviour:
 //   - On first use (empty stored value), record the configured
-//     destination (storage_url, or the s3.* endpoint, bucket and
-//     prefix) and log the binding.
-//   - When the stored value matches the configured destination, do
+//     storage_url and log the binding.
+//   - When the stored value matches the configured storage_url, do
 //     nothing and return nil.
 //   - When the two differ, refuse with an error that tells the user
 //     how to recover (revert the config, or run `vaultik database
@@ -47,10 +46,12 @@ func (v *Vaultik) EnsureStorageBinding() error {

 	configured := v.Config.StorageURL
 	if configured == "" {
-		// The s3.* form: bind on its endpoint, bucket and prefix,
-		// written the way storage_url would name the same destination.
-		s3 := v.Config.S3
-		configured = "s3://" + s3.Bucket + "/" + s3.Prefix + "?endpoint=" + s3.Endpoint
+		// Some legacy configs still use the split s3.* keys instead of
+		// storage_url. Falling back to a synthetic URL for those would
+		// hide the fact that the binding is loose. Instead, treat
+		// unset as "nothing to bind against" — the check is
+		// necessarily best-effort for those configs.
+		return nil
 	}

 	stored, err := v.Repositories.LocalMeta.Get(v.ctx, database.LocalMetaKeyStorageURL)
@@ -95,8 +96,7 @@ func buildBindingMismatchMessage(stored, configured string) string {
 		"future snapshots referencing blobs that don't exist at the new destination.\n" +
 		"\n" +
 		"To proceed, either:\n" +
-		"  - revert storage_url (or the s3.* endpoint, bucket and prefix) in your\n" +
-		"    config to the bound destination, or\n" +
+		"  - revert storage_url in your config to the bound destination, or\n" +
 		"  - run 'vaultik database delete' to discard the local index and rebuild it\n" +
 		"    from a fresh full backup against the new destination"
 }
@@ -76,51 +76,3 @@ func TestEnsureStorageBinding_MismatchRefuses(t *testing.T) {
 	assert.Contains(t, err.Error(), "file:///mnt/backups/new")
 	assert.Contains(t, err.Error(), "vaultik database delete")
 }
-
-// A config with no storage_url names its destination with s3.endpoint,
-// s3.bucket and s3.prefix; a change to any of them must be refused just
-// as a changed storage_url is.
-func TestEnsureStorageBinding_S3FieldsChangeRefuses(t *testing.T) {
-	log.Initialize(log.Config{})
-	t.Parallel()
-
-	bound := config.S3Config{
-		Endpoint: "https://s3.example.com",
-		Bucket:   "bucket-a",
-		Prefix:   "backups",
-	}
-
-	tests := []struct {
-		name    string
-		changed config.S3Config
-	}{
-		{"bucket", config.S3Config{
-			Endpoint: bound.Endpoint, Bucket: "bucket-b", Prefix: bound.Prefix,
-		}},
-		{"prefix", config.S3Config{
-			Endpoint: bound.Endpoint, Bucket: bound.Bucket, Prefix: "other",
-		}},
-		{"endpoint", config.S3Config{
-			Endpoint: "https://s3.other.com", Bucket: bound.Bucket, Prefix: bound.Prefix,
-		}},
-	}
-
-	for _, tt := range tests {
-		t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
-			t.Parallel()
-
-			tv, _ := buildBindTestVaultik(t, "")
-
-			tv.Config.S3 = bound
-			require.NoError(t, tv.EnsureStorageBinding(), "first use binds")
-			require.NoError(t, tv.EnsureStorageBinding(), "same destination passes")
-
-			tv.Config.S3 = tt.changed
-			err := tv.EnsureStorageBinding()
-			require.Error(t, err)
-			assert.Contains(t, err.Error(),
-				"local index is bound to a different backup destination")
-			assert.Contains(t, err.Error(), "vaultik database delete")
-		})
-	}
-}