Nested snapshots validated in production; drop the untested caveat
An unattended scheduled backup of a live 252-dataset pool ran through the staging tree end to end: task 5 /mnt/Tap SUCCESS 18m14s - 252 datasets recursively snapshotted; 173 bind mounts built and verified - zero orphaned ZFS snapshots and zero stale mounts afterwards -- the failure that would otherwise have accumulated 251 snapshots on every single run - the same task previously stalled at 74% for over 12 hours reading live files The README said the mount --bind staging step had not been exercised by a live backup run. That is no longer true, so it is removed rather than left to understate the state of the code. The advice to verify your own first backup actually contains child-dataset data stays -- that one is not boilerplate.
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middlewared-restart case (which empties it) that must not orphan a snapshot
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tree. One record, on disk, or none.
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### Validated in production
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An unattended scheduled backup of a live 252-dataset pool (`/mnt/Tap`, TrueNAS
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25.10) ran through the staging tree end to end:
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- 252 datasets recursively snapshotted, 173 bind mounts built and verified
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- completed in **18m14s**, `SUCCESS` — the same task previously stalled at 74%
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for over 12 hours reading live files
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- **zero** orphaned ZFS snapshots and **zero** stale mounts afterwards, which is
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the failure mode that would otherwise have accumulated 251 snapshots per run
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### Known issues
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- Stock `restic_backup()` deletes the ZFS snapshot in its own `finally`, which
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