feat(backup): capture volumes from a filesystem snapshot

Backing up a live volume with rsync copies a moving target: a database
written to mid-copy lands on disk in a state no engine ever committed.
Stopping the container avoids that at the cost of downtime.

A snapshot removes both. `--snapshot {btrfs,zfs}` with `--snapshot-subject`
freezes the docker root once per run, and every volume copy is then read
from that frozen tree while the containers keep serving. A restore of such
a copy is an ordinary crash recovery, which every supported engine performs
on its own at startup.

An unsupported filesystem or an unknown snapshot kind fails loudly rather
than degrading to a live copy, since a silent fallback would return exactly
the torn backup the mode exists to prevent. `--shutdown` is rejected
alongside `--snapshot` instead of being ignored: under a snapshot no
container is ever stopped, so accepting the flag would promise downtime
semantics the run does not deliver.

Copies out of a snapshot skip rsync's --checksum verification. The source
is immutable for the lifetime of the copy, so size-and-mtime cannot race,
and dropping the second full read roughly halves the I/O per volume.

backup/app.py grew past what one module could carry and is split into
layout, policy and dumps along the lines it already had internally.

Tests: unit coverage for the new snapshot, layout, policy, volume and cli
units; e2e cases drive real btrfs, zfs and ext4 filesystems on loop devices
in a privileged container, including a MariaDB that is written to across
the snapshot and must recover from the restored copy without losing a
committed row. CI installs zfs and sets E2E_REQUIRE_FILESYSTEMS so a
missing kernel module fails the build instead of silently skipping a
filesystem.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -25,7 +25,12 @@ def get_last_backup_dir(
def backup_volume(
versions_dir: str, volume_name: str, volume_dir: str, *, authoritative: bool
versions_dir: str,
volume_name: str,
volume_dir: str,
*,
authoritative: bool,
source: str,
) -> None:
"""Perform incremental file backup of a Docker volume.
@@ -34,13 +39,14 @@ def backup_volume(
size and whole-second mtime. Required on a pass whose destination was
already written from a live source, where a file can differ while
both attributes still agree.
source: directory to read from - the volume's mountpoint, or its path
inside a snapshot.
"""
dest = os.path.join(volume_dir, "files") + "/"
pathlib.Path(dest).mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
last = get_last_backup_dir(versions_dir, volume_name, dest)
link_dest = f"--link-dest='{last}'" if last else ""
source = get_storage_path(volume_name)
verify = "--checksum " if authoritative else ""
cmd = f"rsync -abP --delete --delete-excluded {verify}{link_dest} {source} {dest}"