fix(ops): make backup/restore work, and give upgrades a pin and a rollback

DX-13: both shell scripts ran bare 'docker compose', which has no config
file to find in the layout docs/self-hosting.md tells people to use (only
docker-compose.selfhost.yml is downloaded) — they now fall back to it, while
a source checkout keeps resolving docker-compose.yml as before. The two
PowerShell scripts moved the dump through the PS pipeline, which corrupts
binary on 5.1 and cannot express -Encoding Byte at all on 7 ('Byte' is not a
supported encoding name), so they simply failed there; they now write inside
the container and 'docker compose cp' it across. backup.sh also wrote its
output straight into backups/, leaving a truncated file that looks like a
real backup when pg_dump fails — it writes a .part and promotes on success.
Both restores report a non-zero pg_restore rather than printing 'Restored'
over it. Docs now state that a backup is the dump PLUS .env: without
TOKEN_ENCRYPTION_KEY every encrypted secret in the restored database is
unreadable, which the old one-line 'back up the volume' never said.

DX-14: 'latest' moves with every release and migrations run on every boot,
so self-hosters had no way to choose when they move and no way back. Docs
gain IMAGE_TAG pinning, a rollback recipe (image-only vs schema-bearing) and
the migration-failed-at-boot case; CHANGELOG.md is generated from
releaseNotes.ts so the file cannot drift from what the app shows, and
'siftlode release' refuses on a stale one rather than regenerating it into
the clean tree it just demanded.

Verified: dump + restore round-trip on both platforms against localdev into
a scratch database (8 users, 262822 videos, schema 0082_invite_lang), and
IMAGE_TAG=0.80.0 resolves on both services in 'compose config'.
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# Dumps the Siftlode Postgres database to backupssiftlode-<timestamp>.dump (custom format).
# Dumps the Siftlode Postgres database to backups\siftlode-<timestamp>.dump (custom format).
# Run from the project root: .\scripts\backup.ps1
#
# A dump is only HALF a backup. The other half is your .env — it holds TOKEN_ENCRYPTION_KEY, without
# which every encrypted value in the restored database (Google credentials, SMTP password, Plex
# token, stored refresh tokens) is unreadable. See docs/self-hosting.md § Backups.
$ErrorActionPreference = "Stop"
# The dump is moved with `docker compose cp`, never through the PowerShell pipeline. Piping a binary
# stream corrupts it on Windows PowerShell 5.1 (text decoding), and on PowerShell 7 the old
# `-Encoding Byte` workaround does not even exist any more — it throws "'Byte' is not a supported
# encoding name", so this script simply failed there.
$remote = "/tmp/siftlode-backup.dump"
# `docker compose` finds docker-compose.yml on its own and honours $env:COMPOSE_FILE. The documented
# self-host layout (docs/self-hosting.md § Get the files) has NEITHER — just the selfhost file.
if (-not $env:COMPOSE_FILE -and -not (Test-Path "docker-compose.yml") -and (Test-Path "docker-compose.selfhost.yml")) {
$env:COMPOSE_FILE = "docker-compose.selfhost.yml"
}
$user = if ($env:POSTGRES_USER) { $env:POSTGRES_USER } else { "siftlode" }
$dbname = if ($env:POSTGRES_DB) { $env:POSTGRES_DB } else { "siftlode" }
New-Item -ItemType Directory -Force -Path "backups" | Out-Null
$ts = Get-Date -Format "yyyyMMdd-HHmmss"
$out = "backups\siftlode-$ts.dump"
docker compose exec -T db pg_dump -U $user -Fc $dbname | Set-Content -NoNewline -Encoding Byte $out
docker compose exec -T db pg_dump -U $user -Fc $dbname -f $remote
if ($LASTEXITCODE -ne 0) {
docker compose exec -T db rm -f $remote 2>$null
throw "BACKUP FAILED — pg_dump returned $LASTEXITCODE; no file was written."
}
docker compose cp "db:$remote" $out
$cpCode = $LASTEXITCODE
docker compose exec -T db rm -f $remote 2>$null
if ($cpCode -ne 0) { throw "BACKUP FAILED — could not copy the dump out of the container (exit $cpCode)." }
if (-not (Test-Path $out) -or (Get-Item $out).Length -eq 0) {
if (Test-Path $out) { Remove-Item $out }
throw "BACKUP FAILED — the dump came out empty; no backup was written."
}
Write-Output "Wrote $out"
Write-Output "Remember: back up your .env too (TOKEN_ENCRYPTION_KEY) — this dump alone cannot be fully restored."
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#!/bin/sh
# Dumps the Siftlode Postgres database to backups/siftlode-<timestamp>.dump (custom format).
# Run from the project root: ./scripts/backup.sh
#
# A dump is only HALF a backup. The other half is your `.env` — it holds TOKEN_ENCRYPTION_KEY,
# without which every encrypted value in the restored database (Google credentials, SMTP password,
# Plex token, stored refresh tokens) is unreadable. See docs/self-hosting.md § Backups.
set -e
# `docker compose` finds docker-compose.yml on its own and honours $COMPOSE_FILE. The documented
# self-host layout (docs/self-hosting.md § Get the files) has NEITHER — just the selfhost file — so
# without this the command below failed there with "no configuration file provided".
if [ -z "${COMPOSE_FILE:-}" ] && [ ! -f docker-compose.yml ] && [ -f docker-compose.selfhost.yml ]; then
COMPOSE_FILE=docker-compose.selfhost.yml
export COMPOSE_FILE
fi
USER_NAME="${POSTGRES_USER:-siftlode}"
DB_NAME="${POSTGRES_DB:-siftlode}"
mkdir -p backups
TS=$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S)
OUT="backups/siftlode-$TS.dump"
docker compose exec -T db pg_dump -U "$USER_NAME" -Fc "$DB_NAME" > "$OUT"
# Write to a temp name and only promote it on success: a failed pg_dump would otherwise leave a
# truncated (often 0-byte) file sitting in backups/ that looks exactly like a real backup.
TMP="$OUT.part"
if ! docker compose exec -T db pg_dump -U "$USER_NAME" -Fc "$DB_NAME" > "$TMP"; then
rm -f "$TMP"
echo "BACKUP FAILED — pg_dump returned an error; no file was written." >&2
exit 1
fi
if [ ! -s "$TMP" ]; then
rm -f "$TMP"
echo "BACKUP FAILED — pg_dump produced an empty file; no backup was written." >&2
exit 1
fi
mv "$TMP" "$OUT"
echo "Wrote $OUT"
echo "Remember: back up your .env too (TOKEN_ENCRYPTION_KEY) — this dump alone cannot be fully restored."
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// Generates CHANGELOG.md from frontend/src/lib/releaseNotes.ts — the same entries the app shows
// under Release Notes, so a self-hoster deciding whether to upgrade reads the same text an
// in-app user does, without having to install the app first (DX-14).
//
// Why derive rather than hand-write: two lists of "what changed in 0.80.0" WILL drift, and the
// in-app one is the one that gets written during a release. This makes the file a build product of
// it. RELEASE_NOTES is a plain data literal by design, so it is imported by stripping the single TS
// type annotation off the declaration — no transpiler, no dependency.
//
// node scripts/gen-changelog.mjs # write CHANGELOG.md
// node scripts/gen-changelog.mjs --check # exit 1 if CHANGELOG.md is stale (used by `siftlode release`)
import { readFile, writeFile } from "node:fs/promises";
import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
import path from "node:path";
const root = path.resolve(path.dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url)), "..");
const SOURCE = path.join(root, "frontend", "src", "lib", "releaseNotes.ts");
const TARGET = path.join(root, "CHANGELOG.md");
async function loadEntries() {
const src = await readFile(SOURCE, "utf8");
const decl = "export const RELEASE_NOTES";
const at = src.indexOf(decl);
if (at === -1) {
throw new Error(`${SOURCE} no longer declares ${decl} — the generator's assumption broke, fix it rather than hand-writing the changelog.`);
}
const body = src.slice(at).replace(/^export const RELEASE_NOTES\s*:[^=]*=/, "export const RELEASE_NOTES =");
const mod = await import(`data:text/javascript,${encodeURIComponent(body)}`);
if (!Array.isArray(mod.RELEASE_NOTES) || mod.RELEASE_NOTES.length === 0) {
throw new Error("RELEASE_NOTES imported as something other than a non-empty array.");
}
return mod.RELEASE_NOTES;
}
function section(title, items) {
if (!items || items.length === 0) return "";
return `### ${title}\n\n${items.map((line) => `- ${line}`).join("\n")}\n\n`;
}
function render(entries) {
const head = [
"# Changelog",
"",
"Every released version of Siftlode, newest first.",
"",
"**Generated from `frontend/src/lib/releaseNotes.ts` by `scripts/gen-changelog.mjs` — do not edit by hand;**",
"edit the release notes and re-run the generator.",
"",
"Upgrading, pinning a version and rolling back: [docs/self-hosting.md](docs/self-hosting.md#upgrading).",
"",
"",
].join("\n");
const body = entries
.map((e) => {
const sha = e.sha ? ` (\`${e.sha}\`)` : "";
let out = `## ${e.version} — ${e.date}${sha}\n\n`;
if (e.summary) out += `${e.summary}\n\n`;
out += section("Features", e.features);
out += section("Fixes", e.fixes);
out += section("Internal", e.chores);
return out;
})
.join("");
return `${head}${body}`.replace(/\n{3,}$/, "\n");
}
const entries = await loadEntries();
const rendered = render(entries);
if (process.argv.includes("--check")) {
const current = await readFile(TARGET, "utf8").catch(() => null);
if (current !== rendered) {
console.error(
`CHANGELOG.md is out of date with releaseNotes.ts (newest entry: ${entries[0].version}).\n` +
"Run: node scripts/gen-changelog.mjs — then commit the result.",
);
process.exit(1);
}
console.log(`CHANGELOG.md is current (${entries.length} releases, newest ${entries[0].version}).`);
} else {
await writeFile(TARGET, rendered, "utf8");
console.log(`Wrote CHANGELOG.md — ${entries.length} releases, newest ${entries[0].version}.`);
}
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# Restores a Siftlode Postgres dump created by backup.ps1 into the running db container.
# Usage: .\scripts\restore.ps1 backupssiftlode-YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS.dump
# Usage: .\scripts\restore.ps1 backups\siftlode-YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS.dump
#
# Restoring the database does NOT restore the secrets that decrypt it. If this dump is from an
# instance with a different TOKEN_ENCRYPTION_KEY than the current .env, the encrypted sysconfig
# values and refresh tokens will not be readable. See docs/self-hosting.md § Backups.
param([Parameter(Mandatory = $true)][string]$DumpFile)
$ErrorActionPreference = "Stop"
# See backup.ps1: the dump travels with `docker compose cp`, never through the PowerShell pipeline,
# which corrupts binary on 5.1 and cannot express `-Encoding Byte` at all on 7.
$remote = "/tmp/siftlode-restore.dump"
if (-not $env:COMPOSE_FILE -and -not (Test-Path "docker-compose.yml") -and (Test-Path "docker-compose.selfhost.yml")) {
$env:COMPOSE_FILE = "docker-compose.selfhost.yml"
}
$user = if ($env:POSTGRES_USER) { $env:POSTGRES_USER } else { "siftlode" }
$dbname = if ($env:POSTGRES_DB) { $env:POSTGRES_DB } else { "siftlode" }
if (-not (Test-Path $DumpFile)) { throw "Dump file not found: $DumpFile" }
Get-Content -Encoding Byte $DumpFile | docker compose exec -T db pg_restore -U $user -d $dbname --clean --if-exists
docker compose cp $DumpFile "db:$remote"
if ($LASTEXITCODE -ne 0) { throw "RESTORE FAILED — could not copy the dump into the container (exit $LASTEXITCODE)." }
docker compose exec -T db pg_restore -U $user -d $dbname --clean --if-exists $remote
$restoreCode = $LASTEXITCODE
docker compose exec -T db rm -f $remote 2>$null
# pg_restore exits non-zero for ignorable warnings too (--clean --if-exists on a fresh database
# reports every missing object it tried to drop), so a non-zero code is reported as "check this",
# not swallowed and not dressed up as success.
if ($restoreCode -ne 0) {
throw "pg_restore reported errors while restoring $DumpFile (exit $restoreCode) — read the output above before treating this instance as restored."
}
Write-Output "Restored $DumpFile"
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#!/bin/sh
# Restores a Siftlode Postgres dump created by backup.sh into the running db container.
# Usage: ./scripts/restore.sh backups/siftlode-YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS.dump
#
# Restoring the database does NOT restore the secrets that decrypt it. If this dump is from an
# instance with a different TOKEN_ENCRYPTION_KEY than the current .env, the encrypted sysconfig
# values and refresh tokens will not be readable. See docs/self-hosting.md § Backups.
set -e
# See backup.sh: the documented self-host layout ships only docker-compose.selfhost.yml, so plain
# `docker compose` has no configuration file to find there.
if [ -z "${COMPOSE_FILE:-}" ] && [ ! -f docker-compose.yml ] && [ -f docker-compose.selfhost.yml ]; then
COMPOSE_FILE=docker-compose.selfhost.yml
export COMPOSE_FILE
fi
FILE="$1"
if [ -z "$FILE" ]; then echo "Usage: restore.sh <dumpfile>"; exit 1; fi
if [ ! -f "$FILE" ]; then echo "Dump file not found: $FILE"; exit 1; fi
USER_NAME="${POSTGRES_USER:-siftlode}"
DB_NAME="${POSTGRES_DB:-siftlode}"
docker compose exec -T db pg_restore -U "$USER_NAME" -d "$DB_NAME" --clean --if-exists < "$FILE"
echo "Restored $FILE"
# pg_restore exits non-zero for ignorable warnings too (--clean --if-exists on a fresh database
# reports every missing object it tried to drop), so a non-zero code is reported as "check this",
# not swallowed and not dressed up as success.
if docker compose exec -T db pg_restore -U "$USER_NAME" -d "$DB_NAME" --clean --if-exists < "$FILE"; then
echo "Restored $FILE"
else
echo "pg_restore reported errors while restoring $FILE — read the output above before treating this instance as restored." >&2
exit 1
fi