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What this PR does

Builds on #5229 (merged), which gives every backup run an archive of its own.

Deleting a Backup taken with the Altinity (ClickHouse) strategy released its finalizer at once and left the archive in the bucket. On the system bucket nothing else prunes it, so every ClickHouse backup stayed until someone called the sidecar by hand, and the route the chart and the examples documented for that, DELETE /backup/<name>/remote, does not exist in clickhouse-backup 2.7 and answers 404.

The driver names each archive <application>-<start time as YYYYMMDDHHMMSS>-<first 12 hex digits of the BackupJob UID> (#5229) and records it on the Backup under altinity.strategy.backups.cozystack.io/archive. This PR also records, under altinity.strategy.backups.cozystack.io/use-system-bucket, the application's backup.useSystemBucket as it read when the backup Job was created: the setting is stamped on the backup Job and copied onto the Backup, because the application may switch before the controller sees the Job complete. A Job created before the stamp existed falls back to the application as it reads at completion. For a system-bucket application the bucket the projected credentials (cozy-backups-creds) name is recorded the same way, under altinity.strategy.backups.cozystack.io/bucket. The Backup is created with its cleanup finalizer already set, so a Backup deleted before the Backup reconciler first sees it still has its archive deleted.

On backup.useSystemBucket: true, deleting the Backup runs a one-shot cleanup Job that calls POST /backup/delete/remote/<name> on the application's sidecar and holds the finalizer until it completes. The sidecar refuses a delete with 423 while any other operation runs and cannot be reached while its Pod restarts, so the Job waits both out within its deadline; an archive that is already gone counts as deleted, and any other answer fails the Job, which is reported as an ArtifactCleanupFailed Warning Event carrying the reason the Job failed and retried after a wait that starts at 30 seconds and doubles with each failure up to 30 minutes (kept on the Backup under altinity.strategy.backups.cozystack.io/cleanup-failures and .../cleanup-retry-after, since the failed Job is deleted to make room for the next). The Job starts only once the projected credentials have reached the sidecar, as the backup and restore Jobs do. It is built by the controller, not rendered as a whole from the strategy template, because the shipped and the example templates run restore_remote for every mode other than backup; only the image, how to pull it and where the Pod may be scheduled (node selector, tolerations, affinity, priority class) come from the template, rendered as for the strategy's own Pods.

When the delete cannot or must not run, the Backup is released with an ArtifactNotDeleted Warning Event naming the archive left behind: the namespace is terminating, the strategy, the application or its API Secret is gone, the application no longer uses the system bucket (also when it leaves while the delete runs), the system bucket is no longer the one the Backup records or cannot be read (also when it changes while the delete runs; a sidecar on another bucket would answer "not found" and the delete would count as done), another Job holds the cleanup Job name, or the archive has the older clickhouse-<application>-<YYYYMMDDTHHMMSSZ> form, without its BackupJob's UID. Such a name comes from a controller that predates per-run names; two runs of one application started within the same second share it, and a run still in flight when the controller is upgraded records it later, so it is never deleted. backups.cozystack.io/skip-artifact-cleanup: "true" releases a Backup without deleting anything. An application on its own bucket keeps the archive's lifecycle, as with MongoDB. The wrong delete route is corrected in the chart comments and the restore scenario.

A BackupJob or RestoreJob no longer takes the outcome of a batch Job of its name that it does not control. A Job left by an earlier owner of the same name is waited out, with the Ready condition (PredecessorJobPending) naming it, until the garbage collector removes it; any other Job holding the name fails the BackupJob or RestoreJob with a message naming the Job. The condition is dropped once the run's own Job starts.

The example strategy under examples/backups/clickhouse now uploads under the archive name the controller chose and restores the archive the Backup records, as the shipped strategy does, keeping its clock-made name and the newest archive only as the fallback for a run given no name; hack/clickhouse-example-strategy.bats runs it against a stubbed sidecar. The backup scenario no longer says the archive is expired by the upstream tool's retention, which the chart does not configure.

Known limitations: a Backup taken before #5208, or by a custom strategy that does not use .ArchiveName, does not name its archive and keeps it; a Backup that names its archive but not the bucket setting, as every Backup taken before this change does (a 1.7.x release that carries #5208 among them), keeps its archive too and is released without an Event; a Backup that records no bucket, taken before buckets were recorded, is deleted without the bucket check; a Backup deleted during an application uninstall can lose its cleanup Job to the chart's own <release>-cleanup hook and is then released with a Warning Event, leaving the archive; the recorded setting and bucket are read when the backup Job is created, not observed from the upload, so a switch made just before a backup, while the sidecar still runs on the previous bucket, is recorded for an archive written to the previous one.

Related gap outside this PR, in main today: an archive uploaded by a run whose Backup name is already taken is recorded by nothing, so no Backup deletes it.

Verified with unit tests that drive the cleanup path through a fake client and the cleanup script against a stub curl, with mutation checks on every guard, and on a test cluster running v1.7.0 with the backup controllers built from this branch (before #5229 shortened the run name to its current form, which leaves the deletion side unchanged), against the real clickhouse-backup sidecar and SeaweedFS: a backup records a per-run archive name and the bucket setting on a Backup created with its finalizer; deleting the Backup deletes the archive's objects in the bucket; a restore from a Backup brings the data back; a BackupJob recreated under a used name waits for the earlier Job and then writes an archive of its own; a Job of that name created by anything else fails the BackupJob; a Backup recording an archive named without a UID is released with ArtifactNotDeleted and its objects stay. The changes made after that run (the recorded bucket, the retry wait, the credentials wait before the cleanup Job, the rendered cleanup Pod settings, the cleared predecessor condition, the example strategy) are covered by the unit tests and bats, not by a live run.

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fix(clickhouse): deleting a Backup taken on the system bucket from this release on now deletes its clickhouse-backup archive and keeps the Backup until the delete finished, reporting an archive it cannot or must not delete (including one named without its BackupJob's UID, or in a system bucket the platform has left) as a Warning Event and retrying a failed delete with a growing wait; the cleanup Pod is scheduled as the strategy's own Pods; a BackupJob or RestoreJob no longer reports the outcome of a batch Job it did not create; the documented sidecar delete route is corrected to POST /backup/delete/remote/<name>.

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The Altinity backup controller records bucket metadata, validates ownership of backup and restore Jobs, and cleans up recorded system-bucket archives when a Backup is deleted. The ClickHouse example strategy uses controller-provided archive names for backup and restore operations when available.

Changes: ClickHouse archive lifecycle

Layer / File(s) Summary
Record bucket flow metadata
internal/backupcontroller/altinitystrategy_controller.go, internal/backupcontroller/altinitystrategy_archive_test.go, internal/backupcontroller/jobstrategy_controller.go, internal/backupcontroller/backup_controller.go
The controller records system-bucket use and the projected bucket name on backup Jobs and Backup artifacts. New Backup artifacts receive a cleanup finalizer. Tests cover metadata recording and fallback behavior.
Validate backup and restore Job ownership
internal/backupcontroller/altinitystrategy_controller.go, internal/backupcontroller/altinitystrategy_controller_test.go
Backup and restore reconciliation checks controller ownership of existing same-name Jobs, including create races. Reconciliation requeues for a predecessor Job and fails for unrelated or uncontrolled Jobs.
Clean up archives and use recorded archive names
internal/backupcontroller/backup_controller.go, internal/backupcontroller/altinitystrategy_controller.go, internal/backupcontroller/altinitystrategy_archive_test.go, examples/backups/clickhouse/*, hack/clickhouse-example-strategy.bats, packages/apps/clickhouse/templates/*
Deleting a system-bucket Backup can start a cleanup Job and retain the Backup while cleanup runs. The controller validates cleanup prerequisites, reports warnings when it releases cleanup, and retries failed Jobs with backoff. The example strategy uses recorded archive names when provided, and documentation describes system-bucket and tenant-bucket cleanup behavior.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant BackupController
  participant CleanupJob
  participant ClickHouseSidecar
  BackupController->>CleanupJob: Create archive cleanup Job
  CleanupJob->>ClickHouseSidecar: POST remote archive deletion request
  ClickHouseSidecar-->>CleanupJob: Return deletion response
  CleanupJob-->>BackupController: Report Job status
  BackupController->>BackupController: Release Backup after cleanup
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Deleting a system-bucket ClickHouse Backup now cleans up its archive, but if the namespace's Job quota is exhausted the Backup is released and the archive stays in storage. This should be handled before merge. Remaining concerns are minor edge cases around custom strategies and documentation wording.

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Minor · Add the cleanup finalizer when the Altinity Backup is created. · backup_controller.go:117-120

internal/backupcontroller/backup_controller.go:117-120
Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Add the cleanup finalizer when the Altinity Backup is created.

The Altinity driver creates the Backup with its archive name but without backupFinalizer. BackupReconciler adds that finalizer only on a later reconcile. A Backup deleted before that reconcile is removed without cleanupAltinityBackup running, so its system-bucket archive stays.

Set Finalizers: []string{backupFinalizer} in the ObjectMeta of the Backup literal in createAltinityBackupArtifact.

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Review comment at @internal/backupcontroller/backup_controller.go around lines
117 - 120:
Update createAltinityBackupArtifact to include backupFinalizer in the Backup
literal’s ObjectMeta when the Backup is created, ensuring cleanupAltinityBackup
can run even if deletion occurs before a later reconcile.
Minor · Add backoff to Altinity cleanup retries under… · altinitystrategy_controller.go:896-899

internal/backupcontroller/altinitystrategy_controller.go:896-899
Minor · Performance & Scalability · Poor tradeoff

Add backoff to Altinity cleanup retries under persistent failure.

A failed cleanup Job is deleted and recreated on a fixed 5-second requeue. The Backup keeps its finalizer, so this cycle repeats for as long as the failure persists. The per-Job backoffLimit: 1 limits Pod retries only within one Job. No count or delay spans Jobs. A persistent error, such as a wrong sidecar password, therefore creates a new Job and its Pods on every cycle. Each cycle is at least about 10 seconds, not 5 seconds.

Persist the attempt count outside the deleted Job, for example in an annotation on the Backup. Increase the requeue delay with each failed attempt, up to a cap. Keep the finalizer. Do not release the Backup after a fixed number of attempts. The documented cleanup behavior retries these failures until cleanup completes.

Priority is low. Only a persistent failure triggers the churn, and it stops when the credential or sidecar is fixed. Effort is moderate. The change needs persisted state and a status or annotation update, because the Backup controller does not watch Jobs and the requeue drives the cycle.

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Review comment at @internal/backupcontroller/altinitystrategy_controller.go
around lines 896 - 899:
Update the cleanup failure path around deleteAltinityCleanupJob to persist each
failed attempt on the Backup and use that count to increase the requeue delay up
to a cap. Keep the finalizer and continue retrying until cleanup succeeds; do
not stop after a fixed number of attempts.
Nitpick comments: 1
packages/system/backupstrategy-controller/tests/strategy_altinity_test.yaml: 1

19-22: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Assert that the upload request uses the recorded archive name.

The test checks only that target is assigned from .ArchiveName. The upload request that sends the archive is not checked. A change that uploads under a different name leaves this test passing. Cleanup then deletes by the recorded name, which may not match the uploaded archive.

Suggested fix
   - it: "backup branch names the archive from .ArchiveName"
     asserts:
       - matchRegex:
           path: spec.template.spec.containers[0].args[0]
           pattern: 'target="\{\{ \.ArchiveName \| default "" \}\}"'
+      - matchRegex:
+          path: spec.template.spec.containers[0].args[0]
+          pattern: 'create_remote\?name=\$\{target\}'
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around lines 19 - 22:
Extend the “backup branch names the archive from .ArchiveName” test to assert
that the upload request uses the recorded archive name by checking that its
create_remote request references the target variable. Preserve the existing
assertion for assigning target from .ArchiveName.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @internal/backupcontroller/altinitystrategy_controller.go:
- Around line 468-474: Update createAltinityBackupArtifact to handle an
AlreadyExists result by checking whether the existing Backup records the current
archive from archiveMD. If it does not, return an error so the BackupJob fails
rather than reporting success with a stale BackupRef; preserve the existing
behavior when the archive is already recorded.
- Around line 117-122: Update altinityPodCarriesArchiveName to check for the
recorded archive name only in the Pod’s create command, rather than marshaling
and searching the entire PodTemplateSpec. Preserve its existing error behavior
where applicable, and ensure names found only in annotations or other Pod fields
do not count as matching.
- Around line 284-288: Before reusing an existing Job in ensureAltinityJob,
verify its controller owner UID matches the current BackupJob's UID; do not
reuse a same-named Job owned by a predecessor. Preserve the existing completion
flow so archive metadata is recorded only from a Job belonging to this
BackupJob.
- Around line 927-931: Update the Backup cleanup flow that uses
altinityAppOnSystemBucket to record the bucket associated with each Backup and
compare it with the current bucket before accepting a not-found reply as
successful deletion. When they differ, keep the Backup unreleased and report
ArtifactNotDeleted; preserve existing cleanup behavior when they match.
- Around line 990-995: Update buildAltinityCleanupJob to accept the strategy
template’s imagePullSecrets and set them on the cleanup PodSpec; pass
strategy.Spec.Template.Spec.ImagePullSecrets from its callers and update both
test calls in altinitystrategy_archive_test.go to match the function signature.
- Around line 789-799: Clarify the skip-artifact-cleanup wording for the restore
scenario: the annotation prevents further cleanup Jobs but does not guarantee
that existing cleanup work stops or that an already accepted delete request is
canceled. Preserve the possibility that existing cleanup can still remove the
archive, and locate the wording via the skip-annotation handling around
isAltinityCleanupJob and deleteAltinityCleanupJob.
- Around line 817-819: Update cleanupAltinityBackup so the image used to run
altinityCleanupScript is guaranteed to belong to the client container; do not
select by a presumed container name without an established contract. Until that
contract exists, ensure the strategy template places the client container first,
preserving the existing validation that rejects a missing image.
- Around line 836-845: Update the batchv1.JobComplete branch to re-check the
application’s bucket with altinityAppOnSystemBucket before releasing the Backup.
If it no longer uses the system bucket, release it with an ArtifactNotDeleted
warning whose message says the archive may remain, including when deletion may
have succeeded; preserve the existing completion behavior when it still uses the
system bucket.

---

Minor comments:
Review comments at @internal/backupcontroller/altinitystrategy_controller.go:
- Around line 896-899: Update the cleanup failure path around
deleteAltinityCleanupJob to persist each failed attempt on the Backup and use
that count to increase the requeue delay up to a cap. Keep the finalizer and
continue retrying until cleanup succeeds; do not stop after a fixed number of
attempts.

Review comments at @internal/backupcontroller/backup_controller.go:
- Around line 117-120: Update createAltinityBackupArtifact to include
backupFinalizer in the Backup literal’s ObjectMeta when the Backup is created,
ensuring cleanupAltinityBackup can run even if deletion occurs before a later
reconcile.

---

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- Around line 19-22: Extend the “backup branch names the archive from
.ArchiveName” test to assert that the upload request uses the recorded archive
name by checking that its create_remote request references the target variable.
Preserve the existing assertion for assigning target from .ArchiveName.

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Comment on lines +117 to +122
func altinityPodCarriesArchiveName(pod corev1.PodTemplateSpec, archive string) (bool, error) {
b, err := json.Marshal(pod)
if err != nil {
return false, err
}
return strings.Contains(string(b), archive), nil

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Minor · Functional Correctness · Low value

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Match the recorded archive name only against the create command.

The helper records the name if it appears anywhere in the Pod, such as an annotation. A custom strategy can upload under another name, leaving a record of a missing archive. Cleanup then releases the Backup silently, without ArtifactNotDeleted.

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Update altinityPodCarriesArchiveName to check for the recorded archive name only
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The check now comes from #5229 (altinityJobCarriesArchive) and matches the archive name as a whole token anywhere in the Pod spec rather than as a substring, so a name that only contains another one no longer passes. It is deliberately not tied to the create command: a custom strategy may pass the name in any form, and the shipped template's upload under that exact name is pinned by hack/altinity-backup-strategy.bats.

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scooby87 Understood. Restricting the check to the create command could exclude custom strategies, so I won’t insist on that change.

The whole-token match remains a heuristic: a name in an unused Pod spec field can still be recorded without being uploaded. I’m not marking the finding as addressed.


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Comment on lines +789 to +799
if !isAltinityCleanupJob(existing) {
break
}
if derr := r.deleteAltinityCleanupJob(ctx, existing); derr != nil {
return ctrl.Result{}, derr
}
case !apierrors.IsNotFound(err):
return ctrl.Result{}, err
}
logger.Debug("skipping Altinity archive cleanup per annotation", "backup", backup.Name)
return ctrl.Result{}, nil

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Narrow the skip-annotation wording in the restore scenario.

The annotation deletes the cleanup Job with background propagation. The Job object is removed at once, but its Pod remains until garbage collection removes it. An existing cleanup Pod, including one still Pending, can still start and run the delete script. A cleanup Pod that already sends its request causes the sidecar to run the delete to completion. Deleting the Job does not cancel that delete. The scenario text says the annotation releases the Backup "without deleting anything," which overstates this. Revise the sentence to state the limit.

📝 Suggested wording
-- On `backup.useSystemBucket: true`, deleting the Cozystack `Backup` deletes its archive through the sidecar and the `Backup` stays until that delete finished. When the ClickHouse application is already gone or no longer uses the system bucket, the `Backup` is released with an `ArtifactNotDeleted` Warning Event naming the archive left in the bucket; a delete that fails is retried and reported as an `ArtifactCleanupFailed` Warning Event; the `backups.cozystack.io/skip-artifact-cleanup: "true"` annotation releases it without deleting anything. A `Backup` taken before the archive name was recorded, or by a strategy that does not use `.ArchiveName`, does not name its archive and leaves it behind.
+- On `backup.useSystemBucket: true`, deleting the Cozystack `Backup` deletes its archive through the sidecar and the `Backup` stays until that delete finished. When the ClickHouse application is already gone or no longer uses the system bucket, the `Backup` is released with an `ArtifactNotDeleted` Warning Event naming the archive left in the bucket; a delete that fails is retried and reported as an `ArtifactCleanupFailed` Warning Event; the `backups.cozystack.io/skip-artifact-cleanup: "true"` annotation releases it without creating further cleanup Jobs. Cleanup work that already exists can still run, and a delete request the sidecar has already accepted still completes and can remove the archive. A `Backup` taken before the archive name was recorded, or by a strategy that does not use `.ArchiveName`, does not name its archive and leaves it behind.
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Review comment at @internal/backupcontroller/altinitystrategy_controller.go
around lines 789 - 799:
Clarify the skip-artifact-cleanup wording for the restore scenario: the
annotation prevents further cleanup Jobs but does not guarantee that existing
cleanup work stops or that an already accepted delete request is canceled.
Preserve the possibility that existing cleanup can still remove the archive, and
locate the wording via the skip-annotation handling around isAltinityCleanupJob
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Done: the scenario now says the annotation releases the Backup without starting a delete, though a delete the sidecar already accepted still runs to the end.

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@scooby87 Thanks for updating the scenario. One case remains: an existing cleanup Pod can start a delete after the annotation is applied, before background garbage collection removes the Pod.

Could the wording at Line 54 also cover that case? For example:

The annotation releases the Backup without creating another cleanup Job. An existing cleanup Pod can still start a delete, and a delete already accepted by the sidecar can complete.

I’m not marking the finding as addressed yet.


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Comment on lines +817 to +819
containers := strategy.Spec.Template.Spec.Containers
if len(containers) == 0 || containers[0].Image == "" {
return r.releaseAltinityCleanup(ctx, backup, archive, "strategy template has no container image"), nil

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Minor · Stability & Availability · Poor tradeoff

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sed -n '65,90p' api/backups/strategy/v1alpha1/altinity_types.go
sed -n '768,904p' internal/backupcontroller/altinitystrategy_controller.go
sed -n '20,51p' packages/system/backupstrategy-controller/templates/strategy-altinity-default.yaml

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Cleanup Job uses containers[0] as its image. A custom template that places a helper first can stall Backup deletion.

cleanupAltinityBackup builds the cleanup Job with the image of containers[0], the first container in the strategy template. The cleanup container runs altinityCleanupScript under /bin/sh, and that script calls curl against the ClickHouse backup sidecar. The controller checks only that this image is non-empty.

If a custom strategy lists a helper container first, the cleanup Pod can run that helper's image. If the helper image lacks /bin/sh or curl, the cleanup Job fails. The controller then emits ArtifactCleanupFailed, deletes the Job, and requeues. It does not release the Backup, so deletion stays blocked and the cycle repeats. The backup Job runs every container in the template, so the same template can still back up. The failure affects only the cleanup Pod.

Selecting the client container by name does not fix this safely. The shipped client name ch-backup-client is a default, and custom templates can use other names. A correction needs an explicit, documented contract that identifies the client container. Until that contract exists, reorder the template so the client container is first. Alternatively, set backups.cozystack.io/skip-artifact-cleanup: "true", but that leaves the archive in the system bucket.

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Kept as is. The shipped strategy has a single container; a custom strategy that puts a helper first would need an explicit client-container contract, which is a larger change than this fix. If the image cannot run the script, the failure is visible as ArtifactCleanupFailed with the Job's reason, and backups.cozystack.io/skip-artifact-cleanup: "true" releases the Backup.

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scooby87 NOT LGTM. A recreated backup job can report success against its previous archive. Evidence: I ran a regression with an old Backup and a completed Job carrying a new archive name. The new BackupJob became Succeeded, but its BackupRef still pointed to the old archive because the AlreadyExists branch returns that Backup unchanged. The AlreadyExists branch predates this PR, but the new archive metadata and cleanup now depend on the artifact matching the upload. The new upload is untracked. Please reject a conflicting existing artifact and cover this case.

The combined tests also need a fixture update before these changes land together. With #5229, six BATS cases fail because render_script leaves the new ArchiveName expression unsubstituted. Adding that substitution alone makes all seven pass.

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Verdict: NOT LGTM

The minted-archive-name identity is the best of any engine here, and the route fix (POST /backup/delete/remote/<name>) is correct. Two paths break the "delete the archive when the Backup is deleted" guarantee.

[MAJOR] AlreadyExists returns the old Backup without checking the archive name

createAltinityBackupArtifact (altinitystrategy_controller.go:502-511) returns the existing Backup on AlreadyExists without comparing the recorded archive name. A BackupJob recreated under the same name, which is the exact case the UID suffix exists for, uploads a new archive clickhouse-<app>-<job>-<newUID> while the Backup still points at the old one. The new archive is recorded nowhere and is never cleaned, with no Event: a silent leak that defeats the PR's own guarantee for recreated jobs.

[MAJOR] the cleanup Job has no idle gate, so it 423-spams during a concurrent operation

The idle-wait added in #5229 lives in the strategy template, not in the Go path, so the controller-built cleanup Job does not inherit it. clickhouse-backup's delete endpoint answers 423 while any operation runs, so during a concurrent backup or restore of the same application the cleanup Job fails, the controller emits an ArtifactCleanupFailed Warning, deletes the Job, and recreates it ~5s later, looping for the whole backup. That is Warning spam plus a false "cleanup failed" signal. Carry the same idle gate into buildAltinityCleanupJob.

[MINOR] useSystemBucket is checked only at Job creation

If a tenant toggles useSystemBucket off during the cleanup Job's lifetime, the sidecar looks at a different bucket, answers "not found on remote storage", the script exits 0, the finalizer is released, and the archive is orphaned.

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scooby87 NOT LGTM. The shared-archive guard misses a backup still in flight. Evidence: I seeded a Running BackupJob using the same archive as the Backup being deleted, with no artifact yet, and cleanup created a delete Job. Checking that unfinished run makes the regression pass. In a stubbed sidecar test, a delayed backup Pod reported success from the earlier action row with an empty remote listing and no upload. Please keep the archive while another unfinished run still uses it, or give runs distinct archive names.

Please correct the description to match the application/timestamp archive names and the bucket setting recorded when the Job is created, not when it completes. Link the website follow-up for the new archive cleanup behavior.

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scooby87 NOT LGTM. An unfinished backup from before the upgrade can still lose its shared archive. Evidence: I checked a completed, correctly owned legacy workload whose Backup had not been recorded yet. Cleanup created a delete Job, and the completion path still recorded that same archive on the second Backup. The UID suffix only separates newly rendered workloads. Please keep the archive while an unfinished legacy producer uses it (altinityArchiveSharedWith).

A new Backup can also disappear before cleanup ever runs. The artifact is created without its cleanup finalizer, and an immediate fake-client deletion removed it before the Backup reconciler's first pass. Attaching the finalizer at artifact creation makes the same test retain the Backup and start cleanup. Please cover that timing in the existing tests (createAltinityBackupArtifact).

The description still gives the old archive format and metadata key, and says the bucket flag is read at completion. Please update it and link the required website follow-up for the new deletion behavior.

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LGTM

Re-reviewed against the three things I raised, and all are closed and pinned by a test that reddens when the guard is reverted.

  • The AlreadyExists branch now rejects a recorded archive that does not match the one about to be written (altinitystrategy_controller.go:617), so a BackupJob recreated under a used name fails with a naming message instead of silently succeeding against the old archive. With per-UID archive names the collision cannot happen on a fresh name anyway.
  • The 423 idle gate now lives in the controller-built cleanup script itself, not only the strategy template, so a cleanup running during a concurrent backup or restore waits the sidecar out instead of failing, warning and respawning in a loop.
  • The bucket flag is re-read live after the delete Job completes, so an app moved off the system bucket mid-cleanup releases with a Warning rather than reporting a success that deleted nothing.

The destructive path checks out: cleanup deletes only this Backup's own recorded, UID-unique archive, and only when the app is still on the system bucket and the name is not a legacy pre-UID one; a legacy name that another run might still share is left intact and released with a Warning. The finalizer is attached at artifact creation now, so a Backup deleted immediately is still cleaned. go build/vet/test and the clickhouse unittests pass, and the four new commits bring no regression I could find.

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…ken with

A ClickHouse application writes its archives either to the system
bucket, which nothing prunes, or to its own bucket, whose lifecycle is
the tenant's. A Backup did not say which applied, so nothing deciding
the fate of the archive when the Backup goes could tell them apart.

The application's useSystemBucket is read when the backup Job is
created, stamped on the Job and copied onto the Backup from there,
because the application may switch before the controller sees the Job
complete. It is the setting, not an observation of the bucket: the
sidecar uploads to the bucket it was last restarted with, so a switch
made just before the backup can be recorded while the sidecar still
writes to the previous bucket. A Job created before the stamp existed
falls back to the application as it reads then.

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Deleting a Backup taken with the Altinity strategy released its
finalizer at once and left the archive in the bucket. On the system
bucket nothing else prunes it, so every ClickHouse backup stayed until
someone called the sidecar by hand.

Deleting such a Backup now runs a one-shot Job that asks the
application's sidecar to delete the archive the Backup records, and
holds the finalizer until the Job completes. An archive that is
already gone counts as deleted. The sidecar refuses a delete while
another operation runs, so the Job waits that out within its deadline;
any other refusal fails the Job, which is retried and reported as an
ArtifactCleanupFailed Warning Event carrying the reason the Job failed,
since the Job and its Pod log go with the retry.

The Job is built by the controller, not rendered from the strategy
template, because the shipped and the example templates run a restore
for every mode other than backup; only the image and how to pull it
come from the template. When the delete cannot run (the namespace is
terminating, the strategy, the application or its API Secret is gone,
the application has left the system bucket, or another Job holds the
cleanup Job name), the Backup is released with an ArtifactNotDeleted
Warning Event naming the archive left behind, as it is when the
application leaves the system bucket while the delete runs. The
backups.cozystack.io/skip-artifact-cleanup annotation releases it
without deleting anything. An application on its own bucket keeps the
archive's lifecycle, as with MongoDB.

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Two runs of one application that a controller naming archives without
the BackupJob's UID started within the same second share one archive.
When their Jobs complete after the upgrade, both Backups record it
together with the bucket setting, so deleting one of them would delete
the archive the other still points at, leaving it unrestorable.
Backups recorded before the upgrade carry no bucket setting and never
delete their archive.

A Backup whose archive another live Backup of the namespace records is
released without deleting it, with an ArtifactNotDeleted Warning Event
naming that Backup; the last of them deletes the archive. A Backup that
is being deleted as well does not hold the archive back, or two Backups
deleted together would each leave it to the other.

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…erves

The chart comments and the restore scenario told tenants to delete an
archive with DELETE /backup/<name>/remote, which clickhouse-backup 2.7
does not serve and answers with 404; the route is
POST /backup/delete/remote/<name>. The scenario also said the archive
always outlives its Backup, which no longer holds on the system bucket.

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…rchive delete

The cleanup script waited out a busy sidecar but ended at once when it
could not reach one, as while the ClickHouse Pod restarts or its node
is gone. Each such Job failed within seconds, the controller replaced
it, and an application that stayed down kept spinning a new Job, two
Pods and a Warning Event every few seconds per deleted Backup.

A connection that cannot be made is now retried within the same bounded
wait as a busy answer, so a sidecar that stays down costs one failed Job
per deadline instead.

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The strategy only supplies the image of a cleanup Job not created yet,
but it was checked first, so a strategy deleted or emptied while the
Job ran released the Backup with a Warning that the archive was left
behind, while the Job went on to delete it. The strategy is now read
only when a Job has to be created.

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…not run

A Job standing under a BackupJob's Job name was taken as its own. A
BackupJob re-created under a used name, as a Plan does when the
BackupJob of a schedule slot is deleted within the slot's starting
deadline, met the completed Job of the earlier one before the garbage
collector removed it, was marked Succeeded without uploading anything,
and recorded a Backup for an archive nobody uploaded for it.

A Job controlled by an earlier BackupJob of the same name is now
waited out, with the Ready condition naming it; any other Job holding
the name fails the BackupJob, since nothing will remove it.

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…d not run

The restore path took any Job standing under a RestoreJob's Job name as
its own, so a RestoreJob re-created under a used name met the completed
Job of the earlier one before the garbage collector removed it and was
marked Succeeded although nothing was restored for it.

The restore path now refuses such a Job the way the backup path does:
the Job of an earlier RestoreJob of the same name is waited out, with
the Ready condition naming it, and any other Job holding the name
fails the RestoreJob.

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The Backup reconciler attached the cleanup finalizer only on its first
pass over a new Backup. A Backup deleted before that pass had no
finalizer, so the API server removed it at once and its archive stayed
in the bucket with nothing left to delete it.

The driver now creates the Backup with the finalizer already set.

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An archive name without the BackupJob's UID ends in the run's start
second, and a controller that did not append the UID gave two runs of
one application started in that second the same name. A run still in
flight when the controller is upgraded records that name later, so
checking other Backups for the same archive could not see it, and
deleting one Backup could take the archive another run is about to
record.

Cleanup now releases a Backup whose archive has that name, with an
ArtifactNotDeleted Warning, instead of deleting it. Such a name reaches
this check only from a run that crossed the upgrade, because a Backup
recorded before it carries no bucket setting and is never deleted, so
the archives left are few and named in the Event. The check of other
Backups is dropped: per-run names cannot be shared.

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The cleanup Pod took only the image and its pull settings from the
strategy, so on a cluster that keeps backup Pods off tainted nodes, or
pins them to nodes that reach the sidecar, it could not be scheduled:
each Job sat Pending until its deadline and the Backup stayed in
deletion.

The cleanup Pod now carries the node selector, tolerations, affinity
and priority class of the strategy's Pod. The service account stays
out, as the cleanup Pod only calls the sidecar's HTTP API.

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… records

The example strategy minted its own archive name from the clock and
restored the newest archive of the source application. The controller
then found no archive name in the backup Job and recorded none, so a
restore of an older Backup silently restored the latest archive and
deleting a Backup left its archive in the bucket.

The example now uploads under the name the controller chose and
restores the archive the Backup records, as the shipped strategy does;
the clock-made name and the newest archive remain the fallback for a
run the controller gave no name. The backup scenario no longer says the
archive is expired by the upstream tool's retention, which the chart
does not configure.

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A cleanup Job that failed was deleted and a new one created a few
seconds later, so a delete the sidecar refuses for good, such as one
made with a wrong password, cost a Job, its Pod and a Warning Event
every few seconds for as long as the Backup stayed.

Each failure now doubles the wait before the next cleanup Job, from 30
seconds up to 30 minutes. The count of failures and the time the next
Job may start are kept on the Backup, because deleting the failed Job
is what starts the next attempt and the Backup controller does not
watch Jobs. The finalizer stays: the delete is retried until it
succeeds, or until the skip annotation releases the Backup.

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A Backup recorded which archive it took but not which bucket it went
to, and the delete goes through the application's current sidecar,
which treats "not found on remote storage" as already deleted. After
the platform's backup storage moved to another bucket, deleting an
older Backup asked the new bucket, was told the archive was not there,
and released the Backup as if the archive had been deleted, while it
stayed in the previous bucket with nothing recording it.

The bucket the projected credentials name is now stamped on the backup
Job when it is created and recorded on the Backup. Before the delete,
and again when the delete Job completes, it is compared with the bucket
the projected credentials name now; when they differ, or the current
one cannot be read, the Backup is released with an ArtifactNotDeleted
Warning naming the bucket the archive is in. A Backup taken before
buckets were recorded is deleted as before.

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A BackupJob or RestoreJob that waited for the Job of an earlier owner
of its name kept its Ready=False PredecessorJobPending condition after
that Job was gone and its own Job had started, so for the whole run it
still said it was waiting for the garbage collector.

The condition is now dropped when the run's own Job is running, the
way the credentials wait is.

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…edentials

The sidecar takes up the projected credentials only some time after the
Secret changes, which is why the backup and restore Jobs already wait
that time out. The cleanup Job did not: right after the platform's
bucket moved back to the one a Backup records, the bucket check passed
while the sidecar still served the other bucket, answered "not found"
for the archive, and the delete was counted as done.

The cleanup Job now waits for the credentials to reach the sidecar
before it starts, as the other Jobs do.

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Signed-off-by: Alexey Artamonov <[email protected]>
The cleanup Pod took its image and scheduling settings from the
strategy template as written, while the backup and restore Pods take
them rendered. A strategy that writes one of them as a template, a node
selector naming the release for one, produced a cleanup Job the API
server refused, so the Backup was released and its archive left in the
system bucket.

The cleanup Pod now takes these settings from the template rendered
against the application and the Backup, as the strategy's own Pods are.

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The time the next cleanup Job may start is read from an annotation on
the Backup, and a time far ahead, from a skewed clock or a hand edit,
held the Backup until then with nothing saying why.

A time further ahead than the longest wait a failure sets is now logged
and ignored, as the credentials stamp is.

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Signed-off-by: Alexey Artamonov <[email protected]>
A deleted Backup whose archive delete waited for the projected
credentials to reach the sidecar stayed for up to two minutes with
nothing saying why; a debug line now says what it waits for.

The test explaining where the cleanup Pod is scheduled had ended up
above the test of rendering, and the reconciler's CredentialsConfig
still named only the Rabbitmq path although the Altinity cleanup reads
the same Secret; both comments now describe their subject.

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The branch is rebased on main after #5229 merged, and the description is updated. Answers to the review bodies:

Aleksei Sviridkin (@lexfrei), review of 2026-11-09 17:47 on ac50346

An unfinished producer from before the upgrade: a Backup whose archive is named without its BackupJob's UID is now released with an ArtifactNotDeleted Warning naming the archive and is never deleted, so a run that crossed the upgrade can still record that archive and restore from it. The check of other Backups (altinityArchiveSharedWith) is dropped: a per-run name (#5229: <application>-<YYYYMMDDHHMMSS>-<first 12 hex digits of the BackupJob UID>) belongs to one run and cannot be shared, and a legacy clickhouse-<application>-<YYYYMMDDTHHMMSSZ> name never reaches the delete. A Backup recorded before the bucket setting carries none and is not deleted either; it is released without an Event, which covers every Backup taken before this change, including those of a 1.7.x release that carries #5208. Among Backups that do carry the setting, only a run that crossed the upgrade can record a name without a UID, and that one is named in the Event. TestCleanupAltinityBackup_ReleasesWithoutJob ("archive named before per-run names") and TestCleanupAltinityBackup_DeletesAnArchiveNamedPerRun pin both sides; a match that ignores the T…Z shape (-[0-9]{8}) turns the second one, and TestBackupReconcile_DeletesTheArchiveOfABackupDeletedAtOnce, red.

A Backup disappearing before cleanup runs: createAltinityBackupArtifact now creates the Backup with the cleanup finalizer set. TestBackupReconcile_DeletesTheArchiveOfABackupDeletedAtOnce completes a backup through the driver, deletes the Backup before the Backup reconciler's first pass, and asserts the Backup stays and the cleanup Job starts; removing the finalizer from the create turns it red.

The description is updated (archive format and key, the bucket setting and bucket stamped at Job creation, the release of archives named without a UID), and the website follow-up is cozystack/website#808.

Aleksei Sviridkin (@lexfrei), review of 2026-11-09 10:46 on 8fbb655 (a running BackupJob sharing the archive of the Backup being deleted)

Solved by distinct names rather than by a guard: #5229 puts the BackupJob's UID (its first 12 hex digits) into the archive name, so no other run, finished or in flight, can share the archive of the Backup being deleted. The only shared names left are those written before that change, which the point above stops deleting.

Aleksei Sviridkin (@lexfrei), review of 2026-11-04 (recreated backup job reporting success against its previous archive)

Two parts. #5208 fails a BackupJob whose Backup name is taken by a Backup recording another archive. This PR adds the other half: a BackupJob or RestoreJob no longer takes the outcome of a batch Job of its name that it does not control. A Job of an earlier owner of the same name is waited out with Ready=False, PredecessorJobPending naming it, and the condition is dropped once the run's own Job starts; any other Job holding the name fails the run with a message naming the Job. TestReconcileAltinity_DoesNotReuseAJobItDoesNotControl and its restore counterpart cover both, also when the Job only becomes visible after a lost create race. The archive a refused run already uploaded is still recorded by nothing; that is a separate gap in main that this PR does not close.

IvanHunters

Thanks for the re-review. Your approval on f6509ac was dismissed when #5229 merged and the base changed. Since then the branch has: the bucket the projected credentials name recorded on the Backup and checked before and after the delete, so a sidecar on another bucket answering "not found" no longer counts as a delete; the cleanup Job waiting for changed credentials to reach the sidecar; a growing wait between failed cleanup Jobs; the cleanup Pod scheduled as the strategy's own Pods, from the rendered template; the predecessor condition cleared once the run's own Job starts; and the example strategy using the archive name the Backup records.

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The inline points are answered in their threads. The two follow-ups in the review body are done: the Backup is created with its cleanup finalizer (TestBackupReconcile_DeletesTheArchiveOfABackupDeletedAtOnce), and a cleanup Job that keeps failing is retried after a wait that starts at 30 seconds and doubles up to 30 minutes, with the count and the next attempt kept on the Backup and the finalizer held until the delete succeeds (TestCleanupAltinityBackup_FailedJobBacksOff, TestCleanupAltinityBackup_WaitsForTheRetryTime).

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if apierrors.IsForbidden(cerr) || apierrors.IsInvalid(cerr) {
return r.releaseAltinityCleanup(ctx, backup, archive, fmt.Sprintf("cannot create cleanup Job: %v", cerr)), nil

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Retry Job-quota rejections instead of releasing the Backup.

A Forbidden error from r.Create can come from a namespace count/jobs.batch quota. The branch at line 1160 releases the Backup on any Forbidden. The Backup then loses its finalizer, and the archive stays in storage. Freeing quota later cannot resume cleanup, because the Backup is gone. Keep the release for Invalid errors and for other Forbidden causes, such as RBAC. Return the error for quota-exceeded Forbidden errors so the reconcile retries.

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--- "a/internal/backupcontroller/altinitystrategy_controller.go"
+++ "b/internal/backupcontroller/altinitystrategy_controller.go"
@@ -1157,9 +1157,9 @@
 			rendered.Spec,
 			fmt.Sprintf("chi-clickhouse-%s-clickhouse-0-0.%s.svc", release, backup.Namespace), authSecret, archive)
 		if cerr := r.Create(ctx, desired); cerr != nil && !apierrors.IsAlreadyExists(cerr) {
-			if apierrors.IsForbidden(cerr) || apierrors.IsInvalid(cerr) {
+			if apierrors.IsInvalid(cerr) || (apierrors.IsForbidden(cerr) && !strings.Contains(cerr.Error(), "exceeded quota")) {
 				return r.releaseAltinityCleanup(ctx, backup, archive, fmt.Sprintf("cannot create cleanup Job: %v", cerr)), nil
 			}
 			return ctrl.Result{}, cerr
 		}
 		return ctrl.Result{RequeueAfter: altinityPollInterval}, nil

Update the "forbidden" case in internal/backupcontroller/altinitystrategy_archive_test.go near line 1349. Its message must include "exceeded quota" to cover the retry path. Add a case for a non-quota Forbidden to keep the release behavior tested.

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if apierrors.IsForbidden(cerr) || apierrors.IsInvalid(cerr) {
return r.releaseAltinityCleanup(ctx, backup, archive, fmt.Sprintf("cannot create cleanup Job: %v", cerr)), nil
if apierrors.IsInvalid(cerr) || (apierrors.IsForbidden(cerr) && !strings.Contains(cerr.Error(), "exceeded quota")) {
return r.releaseAltinityCleanup(ctx, backup, archive, fmt.Sprintf("cannot create cleanup Job: %v", cerr)), nil
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Review comment at @internal/backupcontroller/altinitystrategy_controller.go around lines 1160 - 1161:
Update the cleanup Job creation error handling so quota-exceeded Forbidden errors are returned for reconciliation retries, while Invalid errors and other Forbidden errors still release cleanup through releaseAltinityCleanup. Identify quota rejections reliably rather than treating every Forbidden error alike. Update the forbidden-case test to cover both quota retry behavior and release behavior for a non-quota Forbidden error.

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