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fix(backup): invalidate captures after game container restarts - #846

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A game container can restart after save-off while retaining its Pod UID and Running phase. Backup preparation previously accepted that Pod as the original process, allowing a copy to finish with a Quiesced consistency result after the replacement game resumed writing.

Live preparation now records the game container ID and restart count and requires running-container evidence. Existing checks before and after quiesce, during copying, and before completion reject a changed or unobservable incarnation and use the existing capture invalidation and worker-drain cleanup. Initial missing evidence waits within the persisted admission deadline. In-progress legacy preparations without incarnation proof fail conservatively; raw/stopped copies and completed historical manifests retain their existing behavior.

Adds 37 regression scenarios covering same-Pod restarts, missing/running state, Restic authorization and drainage, CSI completion, legacy cleanup, and an unrelated agent restart. Shared test fixtures now provide realistic game container status.

Validation: Linux operator compilation and ordinary/envtest controller regression-source compilation passed. Runtime tests and lint run in CI under the repository's compile-only local policy.

Current validation: main CI passed on ba50011d with 48 successful jobs and 12 jobs skipped by CI selection (CI run). Portable-path checks also passed. Operator unit tests and envtest passed on both architectures, along with both operator E2E buckets and the dedicated backup-preparation suite.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Backup capture now checks that the game container remains the same and running during preparation and copying. A changed or unverified container can prevent capture from completing.
    • When container evidence is initially unavailable, preparation waits within its existing deadline. Legacy live preparations without that evidence fail conservatively.
    • Cleanup continues to protect active copy workers and avoids sending cleanup to a successor Pod.
    • Raw-copy backups remain available when quiescing is not requested or the agent is disabled.
  • Documentation
    • Clarified backup validation and cleanup behavior.

Signed-off-by: Baylem <zelathis@gmail.com>
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Live backup preparation now records the game container ID and restart count. The controller validates that evidence during capture and rejects backups when it is missing or changes. Tests cover preparation deadlines, legacy evidence, CSI capture, agent restarts, raw-copy paths, and worker cleanup.

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Live backup source proof

Layer / File(s) Summary
Persist and validate source evidence
operator/internal/controller/backup_preparation.go, operator/internal/controller/backup_container_restart_test.go, operator/internal/controller/backup_guard_test.go, operator/specs.md
Live preparation stores the game container ID and restart count. Preparation waits within the existing deadline when initial evidence is unavailable, rejects changed or incomplete bound evidence, and preserves raw-copy behavior for unsupported quiesce. Legacy tests verify that reconciliation does not invent preparation or capture-manifest history.
Validate evidence during capture
operator/internal/controller/backup_container_restart_test.go, operator/internal/controller/backup_guard_test.go, operator/internal/controller/helpers_envtest_test.go
Tests verify that game-container changes invalidate capture, clear copy authorization, and preserve cleanup protection while a worker is live. They also cover CSI capture, unchanged game-container evidence after an agent restart, and running-container status in test fixtures.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

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Merge Risk: Minimal · up to ba500

The change makes live backups fail if the game container restarts within the same Pod, instead of reporting a consistent capture. No actionable merge-blocking risk is evident from the supplied context.

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@Baylem Baylem added area: operator controller-runtime operator and CRDs type: fix Bug fix labels Nov 7, 2026 — with ChatGPT Codex Connector
Signed-off-by: Baylem <zelathis@gmail.com>
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e2e telemetry / amd64 (kind) 22m44s
e2e telemetry / arm64 (kind) 22m12s
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build e2e images 15m3s
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