A finished generation cannot show whether a volume held a database, nor whether a dump was produced for it: under --only-sql a failed dump falls back to a file copy, and the resulting files/ tree looks like any other copy. The run knows both and threw the knowledge away as a printed warning, leaving every reader to guess from file names.
Each generation now carries a manifest.json stating its layout and, per volume, database / dumped / engine. baudolo.generation is the single place those names are spelled; restore/paths.py, backup/db.py and backup/volume.py stop repeating them. It is deliberately import-free so a consumer can read the manifest with nothing but json, on hosts where this package is not installed.
BREAKING CHANGE: BackupException is renamed BackupError. The rename is atomic across the ten modules that define or import it, three of which also carry the manifest change, so it lands in this commit rather than a separate one that could not import.
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Two defaults could not be right. --repo-name fell back to the literal 'backup-docker-to-local' while its help promised the git repo folder name, which nothing ever derived. --databases-csv pointed inside the installed package directory, where credentials must not live; when it applied, load_databases_df read a missing file as empty and the run finished without a single dump and without an error. Both are required now, --repo-name in the restore CLI too. The file itself may still be absent - babadcb's tolerance is untouched, only the path must be named.
--everything is withdrawn. Its one effect was to ignore --images-no-stop-required, which is what leaving that list empty already does, and its branch was the default path minus the requires_stop check. No caller, no test, and help and README described it differently.
--dump-only-sql becomes --only-sql, and --only-files joins it as the opposite half: no dumps at all, every volume as files. They form a mutually exclusive group. A host that only copies files has no business holding database passwords, so --databases-csv is not required there and is never read.
The smallest valid argv turned out to be written four times across the test tree; it now lives once. Withdrawn flags are listed in one place and proven to exit 2.
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