timmy-home/docs/issue-693-verification.md

Issue #693 Verification

Status: ✅ ALREADY IMPLEMENTED ON MAIN

Issue #693 asked for an encrypted backup pipeline for fleet state with three acceptance criteria:

• Nightly backup of ~/.hermes to encrypted archive
• Upload to S3-compatible storage (or local NAS)
• Restore playbook tested end-to-end

All three are already satisfied on main in a fresh clone of timmy-home.

Mainline evidence

Repo artifacts already present on main:

• scripts/backup_pipeline.sh
• scripts/restore_backup.sh
• tests/test_backup_pipeline.py

What those artifacts already prove:

• scripts/backup_pipeline.sh archives ~/.hermes by default via BACKUP_SOURCE_DIR="${BACKUP_SOURCE_DIR:-${HOME}/.hermes}"
• the backup archive is encrypted with openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -salt -pbkdf2 -iter 200000
• uploads are supported to either BACKUP_S3_URI or BACKUP_NAS_TARGET
• the script refuses to run without a remote target, preventing fake-local-only success
• scripts/restore_backup.sh verifies the archive SHA256 against the manifest when present, decrypts the archive, and restores it to a caller-provided root
• tests/test_backup_pipeline.py exercises the backup + restore round-trip and asserts plaintext tarballs do not leak into backup destinations

Acceptance criteria check

1. ✅ Nightly backup of ~/.hermes to encrypted archive
   • the pipeline targets ~/.hermes by default and is explicitly described as a nightly encrypted Hermes backup pipeline
2. ✅ Upload to S3-compatible storage (or local NAS)
   • the script supports BACKUP_S3_URI and BACKUP_NAS_TARGET
3. ✅ Restore playbook tested end-to-end
   • tests/test_backup_pipeline.py performs a full encrypted backup then restore round-trip and compares restored contents byte-for-byte

Historical trail

• PR #707 first shipped the encrypted backup pipeline on branch fix/693
• PR #768 later re-shipped the same feature on branch fix/693-backup-pipeline
• both PRs are now closed unmerged, but the requested backup pipeline is present on main today and passes targeted verification from a fresh clone
• issue comment history already contains a pointer to PR #707

Verification run from fresh clone

Commands executed:

• python3 -m unittest discover -s tests -p 'test_backup_pipeline.py' -v
• bash -n scripts/backup_pipeline.sh scripts/restore_backup.sh

Observed result:

• both backup pipeline unit/integration tests pass
• both shell scripts parse cleanly
• the repo already contains the encrypted backup pipeline, restore script, and tested round-trip coverage requested by issue #693

Recommendation

Close issue #693 as already implemented on main. This verification PR exists only to preserve the evidence trail cleanly and close the stale issue without rebuilding the backup pipeline again.