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efitenandClaude Opus 5.5 2456762179 feat: account data export and users.db backup (#2141)
A small follow-up to parts A to E of #2128: users can download all data
the instance holds about them, and the server backs up `users.db`.

Stacked on #2140. Review the commits after that branch.

## The situation

- An instance with accounts holds personal data, but a user has no way
to get a copy (GDPR articles 15 and 20). Self-delete already exists.
- `users.db` is the only file the server writes, and nothing backs it
up: `GET /api/backup` snapshots the analyzer database only.

## What this PR adds

**Data export.** `GET /api/account/export` and a "Download my data"
button on the account page give one JSON file with:
- the profile, including activation and a pending email change;
- sessions (times and user agent);
- synced settings, own proposals, notification prefs and watches;
- audit rows where the user is actor or target, with other accounts as
an id only;
- the mail log.

Password hash, session and link tokens and the unsubscribe token are
left out: they are credentials. Each export is audited as `user.export`.

**users.db backup**
- Daily `VACUUM INTO` snapshots through `internal/users`, on by default
when user management is on. They go to `backups/` next to `users.db`,
the 7 newest are kept, the directory is 0700 and the files 0600.
Rotation only touches `users-<timestamp>.db` files and never the
snapshot it just wrote. Config: `userManagement.backup {enabled, dir,
keep}`.
- `GET /api/admin/users-backup`: an admin downloads a fresh snapshot to
keep off the server; audited as `user.backup`.
- `docs/user-guide/accounts.md` gains a restore procedure. It covers
what a restore brings back (accounts deleted after the snapshot, old
passwords, revoked sessions) and how to clean that up afterwards.

Spec:
[`docs/specs/2026-10-08-account-export-and-users-backup-design.md`](https://github.com/efiten/CoreScope/blob/feat/account-export-backup/docs/specs/2026-10-08-account-export-and-users-backup-design.md).

## Verification

- `internal/users` with `-race` and the `cmd/server` suite pass locally,
30 new Go tests. The file-mode tests skip on Windows.
- `sh test-all.sh` exits 0; the XSS gate in diff mode passes.
- User-management E2E: 27 of 27 steps locally.
- On our production instance since 8 October 2026; the first snapshot
there was 143 kB.

## Not in this PR

- Importing an export into another instance.
- Off-site upload of the snapshots. The admin download covers that by
hand.

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-08 22:16:49 +02:00
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