Technical notes on web development, DevOps, and AI integration.
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The daily cron dump could not answer which release it matched. Pairing one dump with one release tag made restores a one-name lookup.
TL;DR: Daily cron dumps caused version confusion because the file wasn't tied to the app release. Now each annotated release tag gets its own logical mariadb-dump named to match, stored via documented rules and verified by test restores. This makes recovery predictable since the dump that matches production is instantly clear.