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What problem does this PR solve?

Issue Number: close #70040

Problem Summary:

A checkpoint backup that is retried reuses the BackupTS, the finished ranges and the SST files recorded in the checkpoint. The checkpoint metadata only records a hash of the config, which contains the PD addresses but not the cluster behind them. If the cluster behind the same PD addresses is replaced, the retry accepts the old checkpoint and publishes a backup of the new cluster that holds the old cluster's data.

What changed and how does it work?

• CheckpointMetadataForBackup records the cluster ID of the source cluster (cluster-id).
• CheckCheckpoint fails when the checkpoint was created by another cluster. Checkpoint metadata without the field, written by an older BR, is accepted as before.

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TestCheckCheckpointRejectsAnotherCluster covers a matching cluster, legacy metadata and another cluster. br/pkg/backup, br/pkg/checkpoint and br/pkg/task/repo pass with failpoints enabled.

Manual test with a nightly playground: br backup db of a 130 MB table with --ratelimit 1 to local storage, killed after 40 seconds so that the checkpoint holds some finished ranges. Then the playground was destroyed and a new one started on the same ports, with a one row table of the same name, and the same backup command was run again.

	master	this PR
retry on the new cluster	success, reuses the old BackupTS, total-ranges=0	fails, the checkpoint was created by another cluster
retry on the same cluster		resumes from the checkpoint and succeeds

Side effects

• Performance regression: Consumes more CPU
• Performance regression: Consumes more Memory
• Breaking backward compatibility

Documentation

• Affects user behaviors
• Contains syntax changes
• Contains variable changes
• Contains experimental features
• Changes MySQL compatibility

Release note

Fix the issue that a retried checkpoint backup might reuse the checkpoint of another cluster that was reachable at the same PD addresses.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Backup checkpoint validation now rejects metadata with a nonzero cluster ID that differs from the current cluster.
  • Checkpoints with no cluster ID remain accepted for compatibility with legacy metadata.
• New Features
  • Newly created backup checkpoint metadata now includes the current cluster ID, allowing it to be checked when the checkpoint is used.

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Walkthrough

Backup checkpoint metadata now records the source cluster ID. CheckCheckpoint rejects metadata with a different nonzero cluster ID and accepts legacy metadata with a zero ID.

Changes: Checkpoint cluster identity

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Record cluster identity br/pkg/checkpoint/backup.go, br/pkg/backup/client.go	Checkpoint metadata adds an optional cluster-id field. Newly created metadata stores the client’s cluster ID.
Validate checkpoint identity br/pkg/backup/client.go, br/pkg/backup/client_request_test.go, br/pkg/backup/BUILD.bazel	CheckCheckpoint rejects a nonzero cluster ID that differs from the client’s ID. Tests cover mismatched, matching, and zero-valued legacy metadata. The backup test target’s shard count changes from 21 to 23.

Priority: High

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: High

Suggested reviewers: yujuncen

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 48302

No demonstrated checkpoint-identity issue blocks merging. The reported targeted tests should still be confirmed through normal validation.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 2 functions across 4 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: rejecting backup checkpoints created by another cluster.
Description check		The description includes the issue number, problem summary, implementation details, unit and manual test coverage, side-effect and documentation checks, and a release note.
Linked Issues check		Issue #70040 requires that checkpoint metadata be accepted only when its recorded source cluster identity matches the current cluster. The diff from merge base 0073665 to head 4830227 shows the fo…
Out of Scope Changes check		All changes support issue #70040: - br/pkg/checkpoint/backup.go: adds the ClusterID metadata field. This is the identity the fix checks. - br/pkg/backup/client.go: adds the mismatch check in `Ch…

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Explanation

Issue #70040 requires that checkpoint metadata be accepted only when its recorded source cluster identity matches the current cluster. The diff from merge base 0073665 to head 4830227 shows the following:

• CheckpointMetadataForBackup gains ClusterID (cluster-id). StartCheckpointRunner writes bc.clusterID into new metadata.
• Client.CheckCheckpoint returns ErrInvalidArgument when checkpointMeta.ClusterID is nonzero and differs from bc.clusterID. The error text names both IDs.
• A zero ClusterID (legacy metadata) is still accepted.

TestCheckCheckpointRejectsAnotherCluster covers the cases the issue requires. It creates a checkpoint with cluster 1 through StartCheckpointRunner, then reloads it from storage. Cluster 3 is rejected. Cluster 1 passes and reuses the stored BackupTS (2). Legacy metadata without a cluster ID is accepted. The changes since the previous review only rewrite this test to go through the real runner and reload path, and add a shard-count update. The rejection happens inside CheckCheckpoint, which already gates checkpoint reuse by config hash. I did not re-verify the call order between CheckCheckpoint and GetTS in the backup task flow. This PR does not change that order, so the earlier conclusion holds.

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Explanation

All changes support issue #70040:

• br/pkg/checkpoint/backup.go: adds the ClusterID metadata field. This is the identity the fix checks.
• br/pkg/backup/client.go: adds the mismatch check in CheckCheckpoint and records the cluster ID in StartCheckpointRunner.
• br/pkg/backup/client_request_test.go: adds the test doubles and TestCheckCheckpointRejectsAnotherCluster. The test imports pd only to supply the PD client double.
• br/pkg/backup/BUILD.bazel: raises the backup_test shard_count from 21 to 23 for the added test.

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br/pkg/backup/client.go: 1

729-733: Trivial · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win

Exercise checkpoint creation and reload in the regression test.

TestCheckCheckpointRejectsAnotherCluster directly assigns checkpointMeta. It never calls StartCheckpointRunner or reloads metadata from storage, so it can still pass when the producer omits ClusterID or JSON persistence loses cluster-id.

Use the existing mock PD/manager fixture to start a checkpoint with StartCheckpointRunner, load the saved metadata, and pass that reloaded metadata to CheckCheckpoint with a different cluster ID. Keep the direct zero-ID case for legacy metadata.

This is a material test-coverage gap, not a demonstrated production defect. The production path currently writes ClusterID and uses the existing JSON persistence path.

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Review comment at @br/pkg/backup/client.go around lines 729 - 733:
Update TestCheckCheckpointRejectsAnotherCluster to exercise the producer and
persistence path: use the existing mock PD/manager fixture with
StartCheckpointRunner, reload the saved metadata, and pass it to CheckCheckpoint
with a different cluster ID. Retain the direct zero-ID case for legacy metadata.

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Addressed the test nitpick in 4830227. TestCheckCheckpointRejectsAnotherCluster now writes the checkpoint through StartCheckpointRunner and reloads it with LoadCheckpointMetadataFromStorage. A client of another cluster is rejected, a client of the same cluster passes the check, reuses the stored BackupTS and starts the runner again, and metadata without a cluster id is still accepted. The test fails without the cluster id in the checkpoint.