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

README.md

@@ -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
+Use this after changing `storage_url` to a different destination.
-`s3.prefix`, to a different destination.
 * `--force`: Skip confirmation prompt
 
 ---

TODO.md

@@ -22,42 +22,6 @@ the tag exists and is exercised; what is left is merging `next` to
 
 # Completed Steps
 
-- 2026-10-13: Made an exclude pattern starting with `**/` also match
-  directly under the snapshot path
-  ([issue #303](https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/vaultik/issues/303)).
-  `**/node_modules` and `**/*.pyc`, the patterns `config.example.yml`
-  uses, excluded `sub/node_modules` and `sub/y.pyc` but backed up
-  `node_modules/` and `x.pyc` at the top of the path, since the pattern
-  required a `/` before the name. As in gitignore, such a pattern now
-  matches at every depth, the top included.
-
-- 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

internal/snapshot/exclude_test.go

@@ -531,50 +531,3 @@ func TestExcludePatterns_UnanchoredPatternFile(t *testing.T) {
 	require.Equal(t, 1, result.FilesScanned,
 		"Unanchored pattern for file should match anywhere")
 }
-
-func TestExcludePatterns_DoubleStarDirectoryAtEveryDepth(t *testing.T) {
-	t.Parallel()
-
-	// As in gitignore, a leading **/ also matches directly under the source dir
-	fs := setupAnchoredTestFS(t)
-
-	scanner, repos, cleanup := createTestScanner(t, fs, []string{"**/projectname"})
-	defer cleanup()
-
-	ctx := context.Background()
-	createSnapshotRecord(ctx, t, repos, "test-snapshot")
-
-	result, err := scanner.Scan(ctx, "/backup", "test-snapshot")
-	require.NoError(t, err)
-
-	// **/projectname should exclude BOTH:
-	// - /backup/projectname/file.txt
-	// - /backup/otherproject/projectname/file.txt
-	// Total files: 4, excluded: 2
-	require.Equal(t, 2, result.FilesScanned,
-		"**/ directory pattern should match at the top level and nested")
-}
-
-func TestExcludePatterns_DoubleStarFileAtEveryDepth(t *testing.T) {
-	t.Parallel()
-
-	// As in gitignore, a leading **/ also matches directly under the source dir
-	fs := setupAnchoredTestFS(t)
-
-	scanner, repos, cleanup := createTestScanner(t, fs, []string{"**/*.txt"})
-	defer cleanup()
-
-	ctx := context.Background()
-	createSnapshotRecord(ctx, t, repos, "test-snapshot")
-
-	result, err := scanner.Scan(ctx, "/backup", "test-snapshot")
-	require.NoError(t, err)
-
-	// **/*.txt should exclude ALL .txt files:
-	// - /backup/file.txt
-	// - /backup/projectname/file.txt
-	// - /backup/otherproject/projectname/file.txt
-	// Total files: 4, excluded: 3
-	require.Equal(t, 1, result.FilesScanned,
-		"**/ file pattern should match at the top level and nested")
-}

internal/snapshot/scanner.go

@@ -1312,13 +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)
@@ -1376,11 +1369,6 @@ func (s *Scanner) processFileWithErrorHandling(
 
 	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
@@ -2013,14 +2001,6 @@ func compileExcludePatterns(patterns []string) []compiledPattern {
 		// Remove trailing slash if present (directory indicator)
 		pattern = strings.TrimSuffix(pattern, "/")
 
-		// A leading "**/" demands a "/" before the name and so misses an
-		// entry directly under the source path. An unanchored pattern
-		// already matches at every depth, so drop the prefix: as in
-		// gitignore, "**/x" then also matches a top-level "x".
-		if !anchored {
-			pattern = strings.TrimPrefix(pattern, "**/")
-		}
-
 		// Compile the glob pattern
 		// For patterns without path separators, we need to match them as components
 		// e.g., ".git" should match ".git" anywhere in the path

internal/snapshot/skip_errors_test.go

@@ -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
+// runSkipErrorScan scans source on fs with the given skip-errors setting,
-// setting, printing user-facing messages to uiw (nil discards them), and
+// printing user-facing messages to uiw (nil discards them), and returns the
-// returns the repositories (for inspection) and the scan error.
+// repositories (for inspection) and the scan error.
 func runSkipErrorScan(
-	ctx context.Context, t *testing.T, fs afero.Fs, source string,
+	t *testing.T, fs afero.Fs, source string, skipErrors bool, uiw *ui.Writer,
-	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)
 	}
@@ -328,56 +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())
-			}
-		})
-	}
-}

internal/vaultik/helpers.go

@@ -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
+// an unknown unit, and a negative value are all rejected. Outside the Go
-// all rejected. Outside the Go units the input must be whole numbers each
+// units the input must be whole numbers each followed directly by a unit
-// followed directly by a unit (2w3d), so 1.0y and 30 days are errors;
+// (2w3d), so 1.0y and 30 days are errors; decimals work only in Go units
-// decimals work only in Go units (1.5h).
+// (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

internal/vaultik/helpers_test.go

@@ -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 {

internal/vaultik/purge_per_name_test.go

@@ -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()

internal/vaultik/storage_bind.go

@@ -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
+//     storage_url and log the binding.
-//     prefix) and log the binding.
+//   - When the stored value matches the configured storage_url, do
-//   - When the stored value matches the configured destination, 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,
+		// Some legacy configs still use the split s3.* keys instead of
-		// written the way storage_url would name the same destination.
+		// storage_url. Falling back to a synthetic URL for those would
-		s3 := v.Config.S3
+		// hide the fact that the binding is loose. Instead, treat
-		configured = "s3://" + s3.Bucket + "/" + s3.Prefix + "?endpoint=" + s3.Endpoint
+		// 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" +
+		"  - revert storage_url in your config to the bound destination, or\n" +
-		"    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"
 }

internal/vaultik/storage_bind_test.go

@@ -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")
-		})
-	}
-}