diff --git a/src/replica.rs b/src/replica.rs
index 9d9de7b6..0544a395 100644
--- a/src/replica.rs
+++ b/src/replica.rs
@@ -510,10 +510,7 @@ impl Tailer {
         // behind.
         for (lane_name, lane) in &manifest.lanes {
             let (context, lane_label) = ship::lane_metric_labels(lane_name);
-            let stem = lane_name
-                .strip_suffix(".passages.wal.jsonl")
-                .or_else(|| lane_name.strip_suffix(".wal.jsonl"))
-                .unwrap_or(lane_name);
+            let stem = ship::lane_stem(lane_name);
             if failed.contains(stem) {
                 self.state
                     .metrics()
diff --git a/src/ship.rs b/src/ship.rs
index a5781ee2..c932ced8 100644
--- a/src/ship.rs
+++ b/src/ship.rs
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ use naming::{
 pub(crate) use naming::{
     HEARTBEAT_MARKER, Manifest, ManifestFile, ManifestLane, REPLICATION_RECORD, RETIRED_MARKER,
     ReplicationRecord, TAKEOVER_GRACE, complete_key, fence_key, gen_root, lane_metric_labels,
-    read_replication_record, segment_name, write_replication_record,
+    lane_stem, read_replication_record, segment_name, write_replication_record,
 };
 pub(crate) use progress::{FileSig, ShipProgress};
 use progress::{LaneState, ShippedFile};
diff --git a/src/ship/config.rs b/src/ship/config.rs
index a10e329b..31bfce8d 100644
--- a/src/ship/config.rs
+++ b/src/ship/config.rs
@@ -153,7 +153,14 @@ pub(crate) fn open_store(url: &str) -> io::Result<(Arc<dyn ObjectStore>, StorePa
             return Err(io::Error::new(
                 io::ErrorKind::InvalidInput,
                 format!(
-                    "{url}: unsupported replication scheme — use s3://, gs://, az://, or file://"
+                    "{url}: unsupported replication scheme — use s3://, gs://, az://, or \
+                     file:// (also accepted: s3a://, adl://, azure://, abfs://, abfss://, \
+                     and — per object_store's own host-based detection — https:// URLs \
+                     shaped like a cloud provider's native endpoint, e.g. \
+                     https://{{account}}.blob.core.windows.net/... for Azure or \
+                     https://s3.{{region}}.amazonaws.com/... for S3; object_store also \
+                     recognizes memory://, plain http://, and other https:// hosts, but \
+                     taguru does not support shipping to them)"
                 ),
             ));
         }
@@ -172,6 +179,30 @@ mod tests {
         assert_eq!(error.kind(), io::ErrorKind::InvalidInput, "{error}");
     }
 
+    /// `object_store` itself recognizes `memory://` and generic
+    /// `http(s)://` hosts (`ObjectStoreScheme::Memory`/`Http`) — these
+    /// are not merely unrecognized like `ftp://`, they are schemes
+    /// `open_store`'s `match` deliberately falls through on. The
+    /// rejection must still be `InvalidInput`, and the message must
+    /// name both that they exist and that they are unsupported here,
+    /// not just recite the three cloud schemes as if these were never
+    /// considered.
+    #[test]
+    fn a_recognized_but_unsupported_scheme_names_itself_in_the_message() {
+        for url in [
+            "memory:///",
+            "http://example.com/path",
+            "https://example.com/path",
+        ] {
+            let error = open_store(url).unwrap_err();
+            assert_eq!(error.kind(), io::ErrorKind::InvalidInput, "{error}");
+            let message = error.to_string();
+            assert!(message.contains(url), "{message}");
+            assert!(message.contains("memory://"), "{message}");
+            assert!(message.contains("http://"), "{message}");
+        }
+    }
+
     /// A syntactically fine `file://` URL naming a directory that does
     /// not exist is also a usage mistake, not the store refusing to
     /// open: `NotFound`.
diff --git a/src/ship/naming.rs b/src/ship/naming.rs
index 267fa28a..8f3d81cb 100644
--- a/src/ship/naming.rs
+++ b/src/ship/naming.rs
@@ -30,6 +30,14 @@ pub(crate) const TAKEOVER_GRACE: Duration = Duration::from_secs(300);
 /// it hydrated from (the cache-mode marker `crate::hydrate` keys on).
 /// Never shipped (see [`classify`]): it describes the local replica of
 /// the relationship, not the data.
+///
+/// Both `crate::hydrate`'s boot-time restore and the replica tailer
+/// (`replica::Tailer::poll_once`, after a successful generation
+/// switch) write this. The `taguru restore` CLI (`restore::run`)
+/// never does — it materializes
+/// an independent directory with no promise of ever booting against
+/// this bucket again, so there is no cache relationship to record
+/// (see `restore::run`'s own doc for the full reasoning).
 pub(crate) const REPLICATION_RECORD: &str = ".taguru.replication";
 
 /// What [`REPLICATION_RECORD`] holds.
@@ -218,21 +226,33 @@ pub(super) fn parent_snapshot_of(lane_name: &str) -> Option<String> {
         .map(|stem| format!("{stem}.ctx"))
 }
 
+/// The stem a lane's file name derives from — the passage suffix
+/// checked first because both lanes end in `.wal.jsonl`, same as
+/// [`parent_snapshot_of`]. Shared by [`lane_metric_labels`] (which
+/// decodes the stem further into a display name) and the replica
+/// tailer (which needs the raw stem itself, to key its per-poll
+/// `failed` set against `ensure_context`'s own stem-keyed errors), so
+/// the two can never drift on which suffixes count (issue #619).
+pub(crate) fn lane_stem(lane_name: &str) -> &str {
+    lane_name
+        .strip_suffix(".passages.wal.jsonl")
+        .or_else(|| lane_name.strip_suffix(".wal.jsonl"))
+        .unwrap_or(lane_name)
+}
+
 /// The per-lane label pair the lag metric carries: the context's
 /// decoded name where the stem decodes (it always should — these files
 /// were written by the server), plus which lane. The replica's lag
 /// rows reuse it so the two vocabularies cannot drift.
 pub(crate) fn lane_metric_labels(lane_name: &str) -> (String, &'static str) {
-    if let Some(stem) = lane_name.strip_suffix(".passages.wal.jsonl") {
-        (
-            crate::registry::name_from_stem(stem).unwrap_or_else(|| stem.to_string()),
-            "passages",
-        )
+    let kind = if lane_name.ends_with(".passages.wal.jsonl") {
+        "passages"
     } else {
-        let stem = lane_name.strip_suffix(".wal.jsonl").unwrap_or(lane_name);
-        (
-            crate::registry::name_from_stem(stem).unwrap_or_else(|| stem.to_string()),
-            "graph",
-        )
-    }
+        "graph"
+    };
+    let stem = lane_stem(lane_name);
+    (
+        crate::registry::name_from_stem(stem).unwrap_or_else(|| stem.to_string()),
+        kind,
+    )
 }
diff --git a/src/ship/restore.rs b/src/ship/restore.rs
index 6d46be7c..1f7aff72 100644
--- a/src/ship/restore.rs
+++ b/src/ship/restore.rs
@@ -32,6 +32,19 @@ mix two histories. Verify the result with: taguru inspect DIR
 /// — bad/missing credentials, a rejected cloud config, an
 /// inaccessible local path) · 2 usage error (a malformed URL, an
 /// unrecognized scheme, or a bad flag).
+///
+/// Unlike `crate::hydrate`'s boot-time restore, this never writes
+/// [`ReplicationRecord`] into `out`: `taguru restore` hands back an
+/// independent directory the caller owns, with no promise the writer
+/// will ever point at this bucket again, so there is no lineage for a
+/// record to describe. `hydrate` writes one because it materializes
+/// the SAME data directory `serve` is about to run against — the
+/// record is how a later boot tells "this disk is a cache of the
+/// bucket" from "this disk is independent truth" (see
+/// [`ReplicationRecord`]'s own doc). A directory this CLI restores
+/// stays plain local truth from the moment it lands; if the caller
+/// wants it to behave as a cache instead, that is a `serve --replica`
+/// boot against it, not this command.
 pub(crate) fn run(args: &[String]) -> i32 {
     let usage = |message: &str| crate::config::subcommand_usage_error("restore", message);
     let mut out: Option<PathBuf> = None;