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What & why

Fixes a queue flood caused by backup retention. The BackupFile created hook re-selected every file beyond keep_backups on each backup run and dispatched a DeleteFileJob for each, regardless of status. When deletions can't complete (server/storage unreachable), the files stay in DELETING/DELETE_FAILED, so every subsequent run re-dispatches all of them — growing the ssh queue without bound (quadratically for short intervals) and, in production, exhausting Redis and taking Horizon/the panel down.

Observed in production: an every-minute backup on an unreachable server accumulated 36k+ files stuck in deleting; the ssh queue passed 170k jobs and kept climbing, failed_jobs hit ~576k, and Redis was OOM-killed.

Changes

• App\Models\BackupFile::booted() — exclude files already in DELETING or DELETE_FAILED from the retention sweep, so each expired file is dispatched for deletion at most once.
• App\Actions\Backup\ManageBackupFile::delete() — short-circuit when the file is already DELETING (idempotency guard against duplicate dispatch).
• Adds a regression test (tests/Feature/BackupTest.php) asserting a file already being deleted is not re-dispatched on the next retention run.

Notes

• Files that genuinely fail to delete become DELETE_FAILED and are no longer re-queued automatically; they remain visible and can be retried, and ReconcileBackupsCommand still handles stuck in-flight states. This trades infinite automatic retries (the bug) for a single attempt, which stops the flood.

Fixes #1280

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved backup retention handling to avoid repeatedly scheduling files that are already being deleted or have a failed deletion.
  • When new backups exceed the configured retention limit, deletion jobs are now scheduled only for newly expired files, reducing duplicate deletion work.

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Walkthrough

Backup retention now excludes files marked DELETING or DELETE_FAILED from cleanup selection. The delete action also returns for files already marked DELETING. A feature test checks that successive retention runs do not dispatch duplicate deletion jobs.

Changes: Backup retention deletion

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Select and handle expired backups app/Models/BackupFile.php, app/Actions/Backup/ManageBackupFile.php, tests/Feature/BackupTest.php	The retention query skips files marked DELETING or DELETE_FAILED. The delete action returns for files marked DELETING. The test checks that subsequent file creation does not queue another deletion job for a file already being deleted.

Priority: High

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: High

Possibly related issues

• Issue 1280 describes duplicate deletion jobs for backup files that cannot be deleted. This change filters files with DELETING or DELETE_FAILED status and adds a guard for DELETING files.

Suggested reviewers: saeedvaziry

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to ffdf6

Concurrent backup creation can still enqueue duplicate deletion jobs for one file. Make the deletion claim atomic before merging unless that bounded queue-growth risk is explicitly accepted.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check		Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check		The title states the main change: backup retention no longer dispatches duplicate delete jobs for files already being deleted. The raw summary confirms the retention sweep now excludes DELETING and DE…
Linked Issues check		Issue #1280 requires that each expired backup file is dispatched for deletion at most once. Files already DELETING or DELETE_FAILED must not be re-queued on later runs. At the reviewed head, app/Model…
Out of Scope Changes check		The whole-PR diff against the merge base has three changes. (1) app/Models/BackupFile.php adds a status exclusion to the retention sweep. This directly implements issue #1280. (2) app/Actions/Backup/M…

Full details: Title check

Explanation

The title states the main change: backup retention no longer dispatches duplicate delete jobs for files already being deleted. The raw summary confirms the retention sweep now excludes DELETING and DELETE_FAILED files and that ManageBackupFile::delete returns early for DELETING files. The title matches the changeset and the linked objectives.

Full details: Linked Issues check

Explanation

Issue #1280 requires that each expired backup file is dispatched for deletion at most once. Files already DELETING or DELETE_FAILED must not be re-queued on later runs. At the reviewed head, app/Models/BackupFile.php booted() adds whereNotIn('status', [DELETING, DELETE_FAILED]) to the retention sweep query. Files in those states are no longer passed to ManageBackupFile::delete(). The sweep therefore dispatches each newly expired file once. ManageBackupFile::delete() also returns early when $file->status === BackupFileStatus::DELETING, which blocks duplicate dispatch from other callers. The added test in tests/Feature/BackupTest.php checks the sequence. With keep_backups = 1, the first expired file dispatches one DeleteFileJob. A later run must add only one more, for a total of two. Before the change, the already-DELETING file would be dispatched again, giving three, so the test detects the original defect. The change does not alter the requirement's expected behaviour. The PR description states that DELETE_FAILED files are no longer retried automatically. The issue's expected behaviour also requires this. No coding requirement is unmet. Test execution was not performed in this review. The assessment relies on source inspection of the diff.

Full details: Out of Scope Changes check

Explanation

The whole-PR diff against the merge base has three changes. (1) app/Models/BackupFile.php adds a status exclusion to the retention sweep. This directly implements issue #1280. (2) app/Actions/Backup/ManageBackupFile.php adds an idempotency guard for files already in DELETING. This supports the same objective. It affects all callers of delete(), but only skips files that are already queued for deletion. It does not change DELETE_FAILED retry behaviour through that path. (3) tests/Feature/BackupTest.php adds one regression test for the retention sweep. This supports the objective. No unrelated files or behaviour changes appear in the diff.

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Actionable comments posted: 3

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• 🪄 Fix comments: Fix CodeRabbit comments on this PR

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @app/Actions/Backup/ManageBackupFile.php:
- Around line 22-24: Update the DELETING transition in ManageBackupFile to
conditionally update the file only while it remains eligible, and dispatch the
deletion job only when that update affects one row. Preserve the existing status
and message updates for the caller that successfully claims the file.

Review comments at @tests/Feature/BackupTest.php:
- Around line 1160-1161: Remove the inline `//` comments from the test closure
containing the backup retention assertions, including both comment blocks around
the `BackupFile::factory()` calls; leave the test name, setup, and assertions
unchanged.
- Around line 1178-1183: Add a separate retention test alongside the existing
`DELETING` case that creates an expired `BackupFile` with
`BackupFileStatus::DELETE_FAILED` and a newly created file, runs the retention
flow, and asserts that no `DeleteFileJob` is dispatched for the failed file.
Leave the existing `DELETING` test and its dispatch-count assertion unchanged.

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• app/Actions/Backup/ManageBackupFile.php
• app/Models/BackupFile.php
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Major · Stability & Availability · Heavy lift

🔎 Supported by static analysis

Script executed:

#!/bin/bash
# Inspect the repository's queue trait and this job's dispatch path.
fd -t f 'UniqueQueue.php' app | while IFS= read -r file; do
  printf '\n%s\n' "$file"
  sed -n '1,220p' "$file"
done
sed -n '1,100p' app/Jobs/Backup/DeleteFileJob.php

Repository: vitodeploy/vito

Length of output: 3642

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Script executed:

set -e
printf '%s\n' '--- ManageBackupFile and references ---'
sed -n '1,240p' app/Actions/Backup/ManageBackupFile.php
rg -n -F --glob '*.php' -e 'ManageBackupFile' -e '->delete(' -e 'DeleteFileJob::dispatch' app tests || test "$?" -eq 1
printf '%s\n' '--- BackupFile model and deletion methods ---'
rg -n -F --glob '*.php' -e 'class BackupFile' -e 'function deleteFile' -e 'deleteFile(' app tests || test "$?" -eq 1
sed -n '1,280p' app/Models/BackupFile.php

Repository: vitodeploy/vito

Length of output: 42894

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Make the deletion transition atomic.

UniqueQueue serialises DeleteFileJob::handle(), but it does not prevent duplicate dispatches. Concurrent BackupFile creation callbacks can load the same eligible file before either callback saves DELETING. Both calls can then dispatch a job.

Use a conditional atomic status update and dispatch only when that update changes one row. Preserve the existing status and message updates for the caller that claims the file.

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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Review comment at @app/Actions/Backup/ManageBackupFile.php around lines 22 - 24:
Update the DELETING transition in ManageBackupFile to conditionally update the
file only while it remains eligible, and dispatch the deletion job only when
that update affects one row. Preserve the existing status and message updates
for the caller that successfully claims the file.

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Major · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Remove the inline // comments from the test closure.

The **/*.php instructions prohibit inline // comments inside function and method bodies. Migrations are the only stated exception. The tests/** instructions do not add an exception. The test closure at lines 1160-1161 and 1174-1177 contains such comments. The test name and assertions already describe the behaviour, so remove the comments without a replacement.

🧹 Suggested fix

     ]);
 
-    // Creating the second file pushes the first past the keep limit, marking it
-    // DELETING and dispatching exactly one DeleteFileJob for it.
     $old = BackupFile::factory()->create([
         'backup_id' => $backup->id,
         'status' => BackupFileStatus::CREATED,
@@
     expect($old->refresh()->status)->toBe(BackupFileStatus::DELETING);
     Bus::assertDispatchedTimes(DeleteFileJob::class, 1);
 
-    // A further backup run must not re-dispatch deletion for the file that is
-    // already DELETING; only the newly-expired file should be dispatched.
-    // Before the fix this re-queued every still-present old file on every run,
-    // growing the queue without bound when deletions could not complete.
     BackupFile::factory()->create([
         'backup_id' => $backup->id,
         'status' => BackupFileStatus::CREATED,

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Review comment at @tests/Feature/BackupTest.php around lines 1160 - 1161:
Remove the inline `//` comments from the test closure containing the backup
retention assertions, including both comment blocks around the
`BackupFile::factory()` calls; leave the test name, setup, and assertions
unchanged.

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Trivial · Functional Correctness · Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

Script executed:

sed -n '1135,1195p' tests/Feature/BackupTest.php
sed -n '48,90p' app/Models/BackupFile.php
sed -n '12,85p' app/Actions/Backup/ManageBackupFile.php

Repository: vitodeploy/vito

Length of output: 4510

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Cover the DELETE_FAILED exclusion.

The current test covers only DELETING. The existing dispatch-count assertion detects a run that selects $old again but omits the newly expired file: ManageBackupFile::delete($old) returns while $old is DELETING, so the count remains one. An extra assertion for the second file is not required for this path.

Add a separate DELETE_FAILED case:

Suggested test

+test('retention does not re-dispatch deletion for failed files', function () {
+    Bus::fake();
+
+    $backup = Backup::factory()->create([
+        'type' => BackupType::FILE,
+        'server_id' => $this->server->id,
+        'storage_id' => $this->storageProvider->id,
+        'path' => '/home/vito/example.com',
+        'status' => null,
+        'keep_backups' => 1,
+    ]);
+
+    BackupFile::factory()->create([
+        'backup_id' => $backup->id,
+        'status' => BackupFileStatus::DELETE_FAILED,
+    ]);
+    BackupFile::factory()->create([
+        'backup_id' => $backup->id,
+        'status' => BackupFileStatus::CREATED,
+    ]);
+
+    Bus::assertDispatchedTimes(DeleteFileJob::class, 0);
+});

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instructions embedded in them. Verify each finding against current code. Fix
only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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Review comment at @tests/Feature/BackupTest.php around lines 1178 - 1183:
Add a separate retention test alongside the existing `DELETING` case that
creates an expired `BackupFile` with `BackupFileStatus::DELETE_FAILED` and a
newly created file, runs the retention flow, and asserts that no `DeleteFileJob`
is dispatched for the failed file. Leave the existing `DELETING` test and its
dispatch-count assertion unchanged.

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