Import Media

About this section: Import MediaQueue cloud-sync handover bundles; the worker imports them in the background.

Purpose

Consume the upstream cloud-sync handover bundles from /mnt/ubuntu-nas/node2/assets/sync/ into the global library (asset, asset_gallery, asset_collection) per Decision 639. The CGI never imports inline; it queues batches into import_job for the background worker (Decision 640).

Flow

Scan: walks the mount for .ready sentinels and records new ingest_batch rows.
Pre-flight: validates the manifest shape, sentinel pair, and per-item decisions; no library writes.
Queue: auto-preflights if needed, then inserts an import_job row. Live progress shows on Import Tasks.
Bulk queue: select multiple batches and queue them in one click; the worker drains the queue in priority + FIFO order.

Example

Scan finds 37e428d2-a4f6-4a31-bacf-0c835fb24084.ready. Tick its checkbox (or several at once), click Queue selected. The worker claims the next queued job within seconds and writes job_* events as it progresses.

Consequences

The library is site-agnostic. Sites surface library content via asset_site_membership, gallery/collection membership, content allowlists, and access packages.
VIDEO-SIMPLE syncs import as stable asset_type=video rows with asset_subtype=video_simple, duration, HLS, transcript, cloud-package, and library-cover deliverables.
Cancel is allowed only while a job is queued; once running, only systemctl stop gpu-admin-panel-import-worker stops it.
Action remove only soft-deletes rows via deleted_at; nothing is hard-deleted.
Frosted, blurred, and vivid_blurred derivatives are intentionally not persisted.

Deeper dive

Sourced from gpu-floor/MIGRATION-INTRO.md and the queued-worker decision in DECISION_LOG.md.

Worker contract

A long-running import-worker.pl daemon claims queued jobs using SELECT ... FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED (MariaDB 10.6+). It updates heartbeat_at every few items; if a worker dies, its running jobs are reset to queued after the configured stale threshold (default 15 minutes).

Sentinel protocol

A bundle is consumable only when both <sync_id>.json and <sync_id>.ready exist and the JSON has status = completed and verification.passed = true. The importer recomputes manifest_sha256 at consumption time so audit history records what we actually ingested.

Source-of-truth mapping

source/source.json -> asset_source (cold provenance).
source/data/photo.manifest.json + photo.analysis.json + photo.meaning.json + photo.family.json -> asset_ai_run rows with explicit analysis_kind; unknown filenames are captured with source_data:<file>.
Bundled cover_hash -> asset_cover linked to the parent asset.
Containers of type gallery -> asset_gallery + asset_gallery_item junctions.

Idempotency + integrity

Every multi-row write is wrapped in AdminDB::transaction. Hash-based UNIQUE keys make re-running the same batch a no-op. Per-item failures isolate to ingest_batch_item.decision = failed with last_error; the batch becomes partial when any siblings still succeeded.

Read-only mount + ledger boundary

The /mnt/ubuntu-nas/node2/assets tree is read-only for admin consumers. The importer never writes to upstream or deletes .ready sentinels; all consumer state lives in ingest_batch / ingest_batch_item / ingest_event / import_job in admin_panel.

Type

asset

Action

update

Status

imported

Items

Bytes

10.5 KB

Source host

orbit-2

Manifest sha256

04b8a5b26b4f3fd9...

Started

2026-08-07 15:31:55

Completed

2026-08-07 15:32:00

Manifest summary

created_at: 2026-08-07T15:30:14Z
completed_at: 2026-08-07T15:30:14Z
verification.passed: true
verification.total_files: 2
prior_sync_id: eda8db24-309b-4df8-9068-968a1a5fff74

id	state	requested_by	queued	claimed	worker	progress	finished	last_error
271	done	import-feed	2026-08-07 15:31:55	2026-08-07 15:31:56	`vultr/pid:946211`	1/1	2026-08-07 15:32:00	-

asset_type	asset_hash	cover_hash	decision	target ids	last_error	updated_at
photo	`186e4fbcc9908cd8...`	fb961c2491bd49ce...	updated	asset:15331	-	2026-08-07 15:32:00

event_type	payload	created_at
job_finished	`{"error":null,"job_id":"271","phase":"job_finish","summary":{"items_seen":1,"ok":1,"status":"imported","summary":{"ok":1,"remaining":0,"status":"imported","tally":{"created":0,"deferred":0,"failed":0,...`	2026-08-07 15:32:00
import_finished	`{"phase":"import","remaining":0,"skipped_terminal":0,"status":"imported","tally":{"created":0,"deferred":0,"failed":0,"linked":0,"skipped":0,"updated":1}}`	2026-08-07 15:32:00
item_updated	`{"cover_hash":"fb961c2491bd49ce8087c9e48d6b2272","error":null,"hash":"186e4fbcc9908cd87b05deb7ee2df40e","phase":"item_import","target_ids":{"asset_id":"15331"},"type":"photo"}`	2026-08-07 15:32:00
import_started	`{"action":"update","already_terminal_count":0,"container_count":1,"item_count":1,"manifest_sha256":"04b8a5b26b4f3fd995022bb9b913185ab2533bae17b08a8357ab00964de5838a","max_items":0,"phase":"import"}`	2026-08-07 15:31:56
job_claimed	`{"job_id":"271","phase":"job_claim","priority":100,"worker_id":"vultr/pid:946211"}`	2026-08-07 15:31:56
job_queued	`{"job_id": "271", "requested_by": "import-feed", "items_total": "1"}`	2026-08-07 15:31:55
preflight_finished	`{"counts":{"will_create":0,"will_fail":0,"will_link":0,"will_skip":0,"will_update":1},"failure_samples":[],"item_count":1,"item_type_counts":{"photo":1},"ok":1,"phase":"preflight"}`	2026-08-07 15:31:55
preflight_started	`{"action":"update","container_count":1,"item_count":1,"item_type_counts":{"photo":1},"manifest_sha256":"04b8a5b26b4f3fd995022bb9b913185ab2533bae17b08a8357ab00964de5838a","phase":"preflight","shape_err...`	2026-08-07 15:31:55
scan	`{"source": "import-feed", "manifest_sha256": "04b8a5b26b4f3fd995022bb9b913185ab2533bae17b08a8357ab00964de5838a", "sync_type": "asset", "action": "update", "item_count": "1"}`	2026-08-07 15:31:55

Media Manager