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LeonSGPandAndrew Aymeloglu b083b173ea fix(db): use calendar month retention for backups (#3718)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip includes built-in database backup and retention behavior
as part of its operational reliability surface.
> - The retention implementation lives in
`packages/db/src/backup-lib.ts`.
> - Monthly pruning is intended to keep the newest backup per retained
calendar month.
> - The current cutoff uses a fixed 30-day approximation, which deletes
January backups too early when the current month has 31 days.
> - This pull request switches the monthly cutoff to calendar-month
boundaries instead of a fixed day multiplier.
> - The benefit is that monthly retention now matches the documented
calendar-month behavior and does not prune valid backups prematurely.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Fixes #3713

Two other pull requests implemented the same fix and have already been
closed as duplicates of this one:

- #3798 — same author's later take. Anchors the cutoff to the 1st
correctly, but mutates the date in local time and leaves `monthKey` on
local time, and unit-tests the helper in isolation rather than end to
end.
- #4031 — decrements the month without anchoring to the 1st, so
partial-month drift and a `setMonth` day-overflow edge case remain. No
tests.

## What Changed

- Replaced the fixed `30 * 24h` monthly retention cutoff with a
calendar-month cutoff anchored to the first day of the earliest retained
month.
- Added a regression test that freezes `Date.now()` at March 31 and
proves the newest January backup is retained when `monthlyMonths=2`.
- Kept the rest of the pruning behavior unchanged: daily and weekly
tiers still use their existing windows and bucket selection rules.

## Verification

- `pnpm --filter @paperclipai/db exec vitest run src/backup-lib.test.ts`
- `pnpm --filter @paperclipai/db exec tsc --noEmit`
- Note: `pnpm --filter @paperclipai/db typecheck` hits an
environment-specific `check:migrations` runtime failure on this host
(`Cannot find module ./cjs/index.cjs from ` via Bun), so I used plain
`tsc --noEmit` to validate the code changes themselves.

## Risks

- Low risk. This only changes the monthly retention cutoff calculation.
- The pruning buckets are still selected the same way; the fix only
widens the retained month window to align with calendar-month semantics.

## Model Used

- OpenAI Codex GPT-5 coding agent with terminal tool use and code
execution.

## Checklist

- [x] I have included a thinking path that traces from project context
to this change
- [x] I have specified the model used (with version and capability
details)
- [x] I have searched GitHub for duplicate or related PRs and linked
them above
- [x] I have run tests locally and they pass
- [x] I have added or updated tests where applicable
- [ ] If this change affects the UI, I have included before/after
screenshots
- [ ] I have updated relevant documentation to reflect my changes
- [x] I have considered and documented any risks above
- [x] I will address all Greptile and reviewer comments before
requesting merge

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<sub>Edited by commitperclip during triage: added the **Linked Issues**
section (`Fixes #3713`) and the duplicate-PR search line the PR template
requires. The duplicate search was performed by the triage pipeline,
which grouped this PR with #3798 and #4031 and selected this one as the
canonical fix. Everything else is the author's original
description.</sub>

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Co-authored-by: Andrew Aymeloglu <aaymeloglu@gmail.com>
2026-07-24 13:12:43 -05:00
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