Commit 7abb7ec

Cozystack ships a single platform-managed `BackupClass` named `cozy-default`. It is provisioned automatically when the `backupstrategy-controller` package is installed and references the system-managed bucket provisioned through the `apps.cozystack.io/Bucket` CR `cozy-backups` in the `tenant-root` namespace (the real S3 bucket name is the COSI-assigned one from `BucketClaim.status.bucketName`).

**Cleanup gotcha (zombie backup_agent).** Unlike CNPG/MariaDB/Altinity (one-shot operator-side Backup CRs), the FoundationDB driver creates an `apps.foundationdb.org/FoundationDBBackup` CR that drives a **long-lived** `backup_agent` Deployment streaming continuously to S3. Deleting a Cozystack `Backup` (e.g. via retention sweeping) does NOT stop that Deployment — the agent keeps writing until the next BackupJob's `stopOtherFoundationDBBackups` call swaps it out, until an admin invokes `examples/backups/foundationdb/cleanup.sh`, or until the operator-side CR is deleted by hand. If a tenant deletes their last Cozystack Backup and never submits another BackupJob, the agent pods will continue running indefinitely and accumulate S3 PUTs. This is intentional today (the driver has no RBAC verb to stop the operator-side CR on Cozystack-Backup deletion) but admins should be aware of it.

The bucket lives in `tenant-root` and is provisioned through the `apps.cozystack.io/Bucket` CR. The system-managed credentials Secret never leaves that namespace. The backupstrategy-controller projects a copy under the name `cozy-backups-creds` into a tenant namespace right before each BackupJob or RestoreJob runs, and refreshes the same Secret in `cozy-velero` (and any other namespace listed in `backupStorage.systemNamespaces`) on a 1-minute tick. The projected Secret carries multiple key formats so each driver finds what it needs in one place:

On a fresh-cluster install, the Velero `BackupStorageLocation` `cozy-default` is rendered before the credentials projector has had a chance to copy `cozy-backups-creds` into `cozy-velero`. The BSL reports `Unavailable` until the projector's first synchronous round completes (which runs as soon as the `backupstrategy-controller` acquires leadership — in practice moments after the Pod becomes Ready, typically tens of seconds after `helm install` returns, not minutes). Velero rejects new `Backup` AND `Restore` requests against `storageLocation: cozy-default` during that window. Plan VM backup automation accordingly, or wait for the BSL to become ready before submitting backups: `kubectl -n cozy-velero wait backupstoragelocation cozy-default --for=jsonpath='{.status.phase}'=Available --timeout=5m`.

`cozy-default` ships an `apps.cozystack.io/Bucket cozy-backups` CR in `tenant-root`, which the bucket-application chart turns into a `BucketClaim`; the COSI driver then assigns the real S3 bucket name and writes it to the BucketClaim's `.status.bucketName`. The strategy templates and the Velero BSL all read that real bucket name (Helm `lookup` against the BucketClaim). On a fresh install the BucketClaim takes a short reconcile cycle to populate its status — until it does, the strategy templates render empty and only the `Bucket` CR + `BackupClass` are present in the cluster. The HelmRelease re-reconciles on its interval (5 minutes by default — set by the cozystack operator's `helmrelease-interval` flag, not a Flux default), at which point the populated BucketClaim status causes the missing strategy templates to materialise.

`cozy-default` is rendered by the `backupstrategy-controller` chart and owned by Flux's helm-controller. **Direct `kubectl edit backupclass cozy-default` is overwritten on the next helm reconcile** — the same applies to its companion `strategy.backups.cozystack.io/*` CRs (`cozy-default-cnpg`, `cozy-default-etcd`, `cozy-default-mariadb`, `cozy-default-altinity`, `cozy-default-foundationdb`, the two `cozy-default-velero-*`). The supported override path is the `backupStorage` block on the **`platform` component** of the `cozystack.cozystack-platform` Package CR:

The platform chart forwards this block into the child `Package cozystack.backupstrategy-controller` as `components.backupstrategy-controller.values.backupStorage` (`packages/core/platform/templates/bundles/system.yaml`), from where the cozystack operator merges it into the `backupstrategy-controller` HelmRelease over the chart defaults. Two paths that look plausible do **not** work: `spec.components.backupstrategy-controller` on the `cozystack.cozystack-platform` Package is silently ignored (the only component under that PackageSource is `platform`), and patching the child `Package cozystack.backupstrategy-controller` directly is reverted whenever the platform helm-reconcile re-renders it.

| `bucketName` | Two modes. With `provisionBucket: true` (default): K8s name of the Bucket CR + lookup key for the COSI BucketClaim — the actual S3 bucket name is the COSI-assigned UUID, surfaced through `BucketClaim.status.bucketName`. With `provisionBucket: false`: taken **verbatim as the real S3 bucket name** and baked into every strategy CR + the Velero BSL. |

| `namespace` | Namespace the Bucket CR (and its system-credentials Secret) lives in — `tenant-root` by default. Must be a tenant namespace (`tenant-*`): the Bucket chart's RBAC helper fails the Helm render for any other prefix. |

If a deployment runs against an external S3 (no SeaweedFS), set `backupStorage.provisionBucket: false` via the `platform` component override described above and create the source credentials Secret in `tenant-root` manually (flat-key format: `accessKey` / `secretKey` / `endpoint` / `bucketName`; or the raw COSI `BucketInfo` JSON). In the same `backupStorage` block, update `endpoint`, `region`, **and `bucketName`**: with `provisionBucket: false` the strategies and the Velero BSL take `bucketName` verbatim as the real S3 bucket name (no COSI lookup), so it must name the actual bucket on the external S3 — the `bucketName` key inside the Secret alone is not enough. The Velero `BackupStorageLocation` picks the same values up automatically (the chart renders it from the same `backupStorage` block), so no separate BSL configuration is needed. Note that disabling the cluster-default BSL itself (the chart's `velero.bslEnabled` value) is **not** carried by the `backupStorage` override path — the platform Package forwards only the `backupStorage` block.