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selfpost/internal/backup/backup.go
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mix 0730b2090e release: 1.3.0: 1.3.0-1.3.1: security pass, queue persist, full backup layout
[1.3.0]
Security and quality after 1.2.5: domain-admin send-log authorization, fail-closed sign-in and application delete, level-2 rate-limit race fix, restore Resync, expanded tests, operator docs, release CI, and OFL for IBM Plex. Upgrading from 1.2.x is a tag bump; no migration.
Added:
  - licence: the SIL Open Font License 1.1 text now travels with the IBM Plex
  - docs: agreed roadmap item **queue-retries** — show this Postfix's retry
Security:
  - The independent security review of the send-log authorization and
Fixed:
  - test (e2e): send-log status scrapers follow the badge markup in
  - security (panel): the Deliveries list is scoped to a domain administrator's
  - mail (level-2 rate limit): the ceiling is no longer overshot by messages that
  - panel (sign-in): a session that cannot be written to the database no longer
  - panel (applications): deleting an application removes its SASL credentials
  … (2 more in CHANGELOG)
Changed:
  - docs: operator and as-built docs aligned with the code after a full
  - docs: [guide.md](docs/guide.md) reorganised into **Installation**, **Instance
  - docs: the 2026-08-13 full-tree review plan is complete — every phase (P0–P7)
  - licence: [NOTICE](NOTICE) tells modifiers to update `SourceURL` in
  - ci: the release image is published only for a **published** GitHub Release
  … (9 more in CHANGELOG)
[1.3.1]
Retry policy in the panel, persistent Postfix queue, and self-contained full backups. Mail queue and delivery history show this Postfix's first retry, backoff cap, and queue lifetime. Deferred mail survives container recreate. Full backups now archive `data/`, compose, `.env`, and `certs/`; the archive layout breaks 1.3.0 flat backups (unpack those with `tar xzf backup.tar.gz -C ./data` as before). Upgrading from 1.3.0 is a tag bump; no schema migration.
Added:
  - Mail queue and a delivery's history show this Postfix's retry policy
  - docs: **Plan checklists** in [development.md](docs/development.md) — format,
  - docs: **Implementation checklists** with model routing in
  - docs: roadmap candidates **send-log-retention** (panel Settings for delivery
  - Postfix queue under `/data/postfix/queue` — deferred and active mail survive
  … (1 more in CHANGELOG)
Changed:
  - **Breaking:** full-backup archive layout — paths are prefixed with `data/`;
  - docs: operator guide, architecture, security, and backup UI updated for
  - docs: HTML mockups for a full panel UI refresh
Changed:
  - docs: panel UI mockups after review — Status restored to live readings
  - docs: panel UI design system and mockups rebuilt as separate pages
  - docs: panel UI mockups — add-domain sits in the list card (Domains and
Fixed:
  - ci (GHCR): per-arch package tags (`X.Y.Z-amd64`, `X.Y.Z-arm64`) are dropped

Squashed CHANGELOG sections: [1.3.0], [1.3.1].

Full detail: CHANGELOG.md (1.3.0, 1.3.1).
2026-09-22 15:24:52 +03:00

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// Package backup implements SelfPost's full-server backup and the restore
// version guard (architecture.md § Persistence). A full backup is a
// gzip-compressed tar of the consolidated persistent state under /data — the
// SQLite database (as a consistent snapshot), the per-domain DKIM keys, the
// SASL database, and the Postfix queue — plus docker-compose.yml, .env, and
// certs/ from the operator's deploy directory, and a manifest recording the
// SelfPost version that produced it. Postfix delivery logs under log/ are
// excluded (diagnostics, not state).
//
// Restore is not a separate code path in the panel: a backup is extracted into
// the operator's project directory (data/, docker-compose.yml, .env, certs/)
// before first start. The archive carries everything needed to bring the
// instance back — DKIM keys, sasldb2, sender map, queue, and deploy files —
// so the operator only adjusts hostname or proxy settings on a new host. The
// restore-specific steps the panel runs are CheckRestore, which refuses to
// boot if the manifest's version does not match the running binary so
// schema/format skew between versions cannot silently corrupt state
// (architecture.md § Persistence), and a one-time Resync of OpenDKIM's tables
// and the Postfix sender map from SQLite on that first boot, so any drift
// between the archive and the database is healed before mail flows. If
// on-disk state drifts again later — for example after a manual edit under
// /data — the Status page's "Reload configuration" button runs the same
// Resync on demand.
package backup
import (
"archive/tar"
"compress/gzip"
"database/sql"
"encoding/json"
"fmt"
"io"
"io/fs"
"os"
"path/filepath"
"strings"
"time"
_ "modernc.org/sqlite" // pure-Go SQLite driver, for the VACUUM INTO snapshot
)
// FormatFull identifies a full-server backup manifest.
const FormatFull = "selfpost-full-backup"
// ManifestName is the manifest's filename inside the data directory. After
// restore extraction it lives at data/manifest.json under the project root;
// CheckRestore reads it from the /data bind mount.
const ManifestName = "manifest.json"
// DataArchivePrefix is the path prefix for every /data entry in the archive.
const DataArchivePrefix = "data/"
// ComposeFileName and EnvFileName are required deploy files at the archive root.
const (
ComposeFileName = "docker-compose.yml"
EnvFileName = ".env"
CertsDirName = "certs"
)
// Manifest is the small JSON document embedded in every backup archive. Its
// Version is the single fact that makes restore safe: the panel refuses to
// boot a data directory whose manifest version does not match its own binary
// (architecture.md § Persistence).
type Manifest struct {
Format string `json:"format"`
Version string `json:"version"`
CreatedAt string `json:"created_at"`
}
// Params configures a backup. DataDir is the consolidated state root (/data);
// DBPath is the live SQLite file within it, snapshotted consistently rather than
// copied byte-for-byte while it may be mid-write; Version is stamped into the
// manifest; DeployRoot is the host project directory mounted read-only (holds
// docker-compose.yml, .env, and optionally certs/). OnWarn is called for
// non-fatal issues such as a missing certs/ directory.
type Params struct {
DataDir string
DBPath string
Version string
DeployRoot string
OnWarn func(string)
}
// excludedFromArchive lists the data-directory entries a backup never carries.
// The live database files are replaced by a consistent VACUUM INTO snapshot
// written under the canonical name; the setup token is transient bootstrap
// state; a stale manifest from a previous restore must not be re-captured (a
// fresh one is written instead); a "tls" directory under /data is skipped when
// an operator pointed TLS_CERT_FILE inside /data; and "log" is Postfix's raw
// delivery log plus its fourteen rotated files, which is diagnostic output, not
// state to restore, and by far the largest thing under /data.
var excludedFromArchive = map[string]bool{
"selfpost.db": true,
"selfpost.db-wal": true,
"selfpost.db-shm": true,
"selfpost.db-journal": true,
"setup-token": true,
"tls": true,
"log": true,
ManifestName: true,
}
// Create writes a gzip-compressed tar backup to w. Archive layout:
//
// data/manifest.json, data/selfpost.db, data/<rest of /data>
// docker-compose.yml, .env, certs/...
//
// Extract the archive into an empty project directory, then docker compose up.
func Create(w io.Writer, p Params) error {
if p.DataDir == "" || p.DBPath == "" {
return fmt.Errorf("backup: DataDir and DBPath are required")
}
if p.DeployRoot == "" {
return fmt.Errorf("backup: DeployRoot is required (mount the project directory at SELFPOST_DEPLOY_ROOT)")
}
if err := validateDeployRoot(p.DeployRoot); err != nil {
return err
}
snapshot, cleanup, err := snapshotDB(p.DBPath)
if err != nil {
return err
}
defer cleanup()
gz := gzip.NewWriter(w)
tw := tar.NewWriter(gz)
manifest := Manifest{
Format: FormatFull,
Version: p.Version,
CreatedAt: time.Now().UTC().Format(time.RFC3339),
}
manifestJSON, err := json.MarshalIndent(manifest, "", " ")
if err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("backup: encode manifest: %w", err)
}
if err := writeTarBytes(tw, DataArchivePrefix+ManifestName, 0o600, manifestJSON); err != nil {
return err
}
// The consistent SQLite snapshot, under the canonical filename the panel
// opens on start (the live file and its WAL/SHM are excluded from the walk).
if err := writeTarFile(tw, DataArchivePrefix+"selfpost.db", 0o640, snapshot); err != nil {
return err
}
if err := addTree(tw, p.DataDir, DataArchivePrefix, excludedFromArchive); err != nil {
return err
}
if err := addDeployFiles(tw, p.DeployRoot, p.OnWarn); err != nil {
return err
}
if err := tw.Close(); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("backup: close tar: %w", err)
}
if err := gz.Close(); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("backup: close gzip: %w", err)
}
return nil
}
// ValidateDeployRoot checks that the operator project directory is mounted and
// contains the files a full backup requires. Call before streaming a response.
func ValidateDeployRoot(deployRoot string) error {
if deployRoot == "" {
return fmt.Errorf("backup: DeployRoot is required (mount the project directory at SELFPOST_DEPLOY_ROOT)")
}
return validateDeployRoot(deployRoot)
}
func validateDeployRoot(deployRoot string) error {
for _, name := range []string{ComposeFileName, EnvFileName} {
path := filepath.Join(deployRoot, name)
if _, err := os.Stat(path); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("backup: deploy root %q is missing %s: %w", deployRoot, name, err)
}
}
return nil
}
func addDeployFiles(tw *tar.Writer, deployRoot string, onWarn func(string)) error {
for _, name := range []string{ComposeFileName, EnvFileName} {
src := filepath.Join(deployRoot, name)
info, err := os.Stat(src)
if err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("backup: stat deploy file %s: %w", name, err)
}
if !info.Mode().IsRegular() {
return fmt.Errorf("backup: deploy file %s is not a regular file", name)
}
if err := writeTarFile(tw, name, info.Mode().Perm(), src); err != nil {
return err
}
}
certsDir := filepath.Join(deployRoot, CertsDirName)
if _, err := os.Stat(certsDir); err != nil {
if os.IsNotExist(err) {
if onWarn != nil {
onWarn("certs/ not found in deploy root; backup will not include TLS material")
}
return nil
}
return fmt.Errorf("backup: stat %s: %w", CertsDirName, err)
}
return addTree(tw, certsDir, CertsDirName+"/", nil)
}
// addTree walks root and adds every regular file (and directory, to preserve
// empty ones and modes) to tw under archivePrefix + path relative to root.
// When exclude is non-nil, top-level names relative to root are skipped.
// Non-regular, non-directory entries (symlinks, sockets) are skipped.
func addTree(tw *tar.Writer, root, archivePrefix string, exclude map[string]bool) error {
return filepath.WalkDir(root, func(path string, d fs.DirEntry, err error) error {
if err != nil {
return err
}
rel, err := filepath.Rel(root, path)
if err != nil {
return err
}
if rel == "." {
return nil
}
name := archivePrefix + filepath.ToSlash(rel)
if exclude != nil {
top := strings.Split(filepath.ToSlash(rel), "/")[0]
if exclude[top] {
if d.IsDir() {
return fs.SkipDir
}
return nil
}
}
info, err := d.Info()
if err != nil {
return err
}
switch {
case d.IsDir():
hdr := &tar.Header{
Typeflag: tar.TypeDir,
Name: name + "/",
Mode: int64(info.Mode().Perm()),
ModTime: info.ModTime(),
}
return tw.WriteHeader(hdr)
case info.Mode().IsRegular():
return writeTarFile(tw, name, info.Mode().Perm(), path)
default:
return nil
}
})
}
// writeTarBytes writes an in-memory file entry.
func writeTarBytes(tw *tar.Writer, name string, mode int64, data []byte) error {
hdr := &tar.Header{
Typeflag: tar.TypeReg,
Name: name,
Mode: mode,
Size: int64(len(data)),
ModTime: time.Now().UTC(),
}
if err := tw.WriteHeader(hdr); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("backup: write header %s: %w", name, err)
}
if _, err := tw.Write(data); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("backup: write %s: %w", name, err)
}
return nil
}
// writeTarFile streams a file from disk into the archive under name.
func writeTarFile(tw *tar.Writer, name string, mode fs.FileMode, srcPath string) error {
f, err := os.Open(srcPath)
if err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("backup: open %s: %w", srcPath, err)
}
defer f.Close()
info, err := f.Stat()
if err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("backup: stat %s: %w", srcPath, err)
}
hdr := &tar.Header{
Typeflag: tar.TypeReg,
Name: name,
Mode: int64(mode.Perm()),
Size: info.Size(),
ModTime: info.ModTime(),
}
if err := tw.WriteHeader(hdr); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("backup: write header %s: %w", name, err)
}
if _, err := io.Copy(tw, f); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("backup: copy %s: %w", name, err)
}
return nil
}
// snapshotDB produces a consistent copy of the SQLite database at dbPath using
// VACUUM INTO, so the backup captures a coherent point-in-time image even while
// the panel is writing to the live file under WAL. It returns the snapshot path
// and a cleanup function the caller must defer.
func snapshotDB(dbPath string) (path string, cleanup func(), err error) {
dir, err := os.MkdirTemp("", "selfpost-backup-")
if err != nil {
return "", nil, fmt.Errorf("backup: temp dir: %w", err)
}
cleanup = func() { _ = os.RemoveAll(dir) }
target := filepath.Join(dir, "selfpost.db")
// A short busy timeout lets VACUUM INTO wait out a brief writer rather than
// failing immediately if the panel happens to be mid-write.
db, err := sql.Open("sqlite", "file:"+dbPath+"?_pragma=busy_timeout(5000)")
if err != nil {
cleanup()
return "", nil, fmt.Errorf("backup: open database: %w", err)
}
defer db.Close()
db.SetMaxOpenConns(1)
// VACUUM INTO takes a string literal, not a bound parameter. target is a path
// we generated (never user input); single quotes are doubled defensively.
stmt := "VACUUM INTO '" + strings.ReplaceAll(target, "'", "''") + "'"
if _, err := db.Exec(stmt); err != nil {
cleanup()
return "", nil, fmt.Errorf("backup: snapshot database: %w", err)
}
return target, cleanup, nil
}
// CheckRestore enforces the backup version guard (architecture.md §
// Persistence). If manifestPath exists (a backup was extracted into the data
// directory), its version must match binaryVersion or the panel refuses to
// start, telling the operator which image tag to use. On a match the manifest
// is consumed (deleted) so it guards only the first boot after a restore and
// never blocks a later in-place image upgrade, and restored is true so the
// caller can heal drifted daemon maps once. Absence of the manifest is the
// normal case and returns restored == false with a nil error.
func CheckRestore(manifestPath, binaryVersion string) (restored bool, err error) {
data, err := os.ReadFile(manifestPath)
if os.IsNotExist(err) {
return false, nil // ordinary start, not a restore
}
if err != nil {
return false, fmt.Errorf("backup: read restore manifest: %w", err)
}
var m Manifest
if err := json.Unmarshal(data, &m); err != nil {
return false, fmt.Errorf("backup: restore manifest %s is not valid JSON: %w", manifestPath, err)
}
if m.Format != FormatFull {
return false, fmt.Errorf("backup: %s is not a SelfPost full backup manifest (format %q)", manifestPath, m.Format)
}
if m.Version != binaryVersion {
return false, fmt.Errorf(
"backup: this backup was created by SelfPost %s but this image is %s — restore into the matching image (selfpost:%s)",
m.Version, binaryVersion, m.Version)
}
// Version matches: consume the manifest so subsequent normal starts (and
// in-place upgrades) are not gated by it.
if err := os.Remove(manifestPath); err != nil {
return false, fmt.Errorf("backup: consume restore manifest: %w", err)
}
return true, nil
}