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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36b2336 matched postgres and mariadb against the image's repository path. That name is not a property of the software: a dedicated Postgres inside an app's own stack is tagged <app>-database or postgis/postgis and carries no engine token at all, so it was never recognised, never dumped, and its data directory was copied as files without a single warning - the fallback notice hangs on found_db, which stayed false.
The container is now asked what it can run. pg_dumpall, mariadb-dump and mysqldump are probed by executing them, not by asking a shell for them, because a distroless image has no shell and would deny every tool it ships. The verdict is cached per image ID rather than per container, so replicas of one image cost a single probe.
Because the probe names the tool it found, the dump uses it instead of the hardcoded /usr/bin/mariadb-dump, which makes an image that ships only mysqldump dumpable rather than silently file-copied.
image_name and has_image are gone with their registry-host and tag stripping; the trap they worked around cannot occur when nothing reads the name. get_image_info stays, since the --images-* lists match exact references.
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