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@@ -799,3 +799,15 @@ All work is tracked in [Redmine](https://projects.knownelement.com)
   use `restart` to force an immediate pull. It auto-restarts core for
   files in its restart list; otherwise pull ≠ reload (config lands on
   disk, running core keeps the old one until a platform reload/restart).
+- **Restore drills / heavy I/O NEVER on hosts running prod VMs** (2026-09-03
+  incident, #684): qmrestore of a 32G disk to scratch VMID 5599 on tsys1
+  starved VM 100 (pfv-bms) I/O ~40 min, degraded prod HA. Drills run dev-lane
+  only (tsys5); prod restores are server-throttled via PBS traffic-control.
+- **`pkill -f <pat>` over the ssh chokepoint self-matches** your own remote
+  command line and kills the session (exit 255, no output). Use the bracket
+  trick: `pkill -f "[q]mrestore"`.
+- **pvesh backup jobs take `-vmid`** (comma list), not `-vmids`; aborted
+  `qmrestore` leaves a create-locked stub VM — `qm unlock <id>` then destroy.
+- **PBS 4.x gotchas:** prune retention lives in `prune-job` (datastore keep-*
+  opts are gone); API tokens need their OWN acl entry — user-only ACL yields
+  "Cannot find datastore" from PVE.