On 2026-10-30 ace's redis, postgres and restic (14:03), step-ca (13:55) and mesh-vault on novox (15:22)
were held on a single backup ask that met no responder while the tool runner restarted.
Quick fix: ask node-backup.now twice. Thorough fix (chosen): every node-backup ask (backed-up and now)
is asked again with the engine's backoff while it is known never to have been delivered (ErrNotAsked),
bounded at three minutes; an ask that may have been delivered (a timeout, a refusal) is never asked
twice, so no backup starts twice. Past the bound the backup fails saying how often and how long it was
asked, the module is held and its have carries those words for the assigner's ask and condition. This
was the engine's only one-shot seat ask.
jschoubben
8bff438e5e