diff --git a/internal/alerts/pbs_datastore_restart_test.go b/internal/alerts/pbs_datastore_restart_test.go
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+++ b/internal/alerts/pbs_datastore_restart_test.go
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+package alerts
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/rcourtman/pulse-go-rewrite/internal/alerts/eventlog"
+	"github.com/rcourtman/pulse-go-rewrite/internal/models"
+)
+
+// Missing capacity and a measured empty datastore both arrive with Usage=0.
+// Only the latter may recover an incident, including after SQLite restore.
+func TestPBSDatastoreMissingCapacityRestartCallbacks(t *testing.T) {
+	dir := t.TempDir()
+	fired, resolved := make(chan string, 16), make(chan string, 16)
+	start := func() *Manager {
+		m := NewManagerWithDataDir(dir)
+		t.Cleanup(m.Stop)
+		m.EnableEventLog()
+		if !m.activeStateAuthoritative.Load() {
+			t.Fatal("SQLite active state is not authoritative")
+		}
+		m.UpdateConfig(AlertConfig{Enabled: true, ActivationState: ActivationActive,
+			StorageDefault: HysteresisThreshold{Trigger: 95, Clear: 90},
+			Overrides:      map[string]ThresholdConfig{"pbs-primary/backups": {Usage: &HysteresisThreshold{Trigger: 80, Clear: 70}}},
+		})
+		disableTestTimeThresholds(m)
+		m.SetAlertCallback(func(a *Alert) { fired <- a.ID })
+		m.SetResolvedCallback(func(id string) { resolved <- id })
+		return m
+	}
+	storage := models.Storage{ID: "pbs-primary-backups", AliasIDs: []string{"pbs-primary/backups"}, Name: "backups", Instance: "pbs-primary", Type: "pbs", Status: "online", Total: 1000, Used: 850, Free: 150, Usage: 85}
+	id := canonicalMetricStateID(storage.ID, "usage")
+	observe := func(m *Manager, s models.Storage) {
+		for range 5 {
+			m.CheckStorage(s)
+		}
+	}
+	requireCallback := func(ch <-chan string) {
+		t.Helper()
+		select {
+		case got := <-ch:
+			if got != id {
+				t.Fatalf("callback ID = %q, want %q", got, id)
+			}
+		case <-time.After(2 * time.Second):
+			t.Fatal("missing lifecycle callback")
+		}
+	}
+	requireQuiet := func() {
+		t.Helper()
+		select {
+		case got := <-fired:
+			t.Fatalf("unexpected firing callback %q", got)
+		case got := <-resolved:
+			t.Fatalf("unexpected recovery callback %q", got)
+		case <-time.After(50 * time.Millisecond):
+		}
+	}
+	m := start()
+	observe(m, storage)
+	original := *testRequireActiveAlert(t, m, id)
+	requireCallback(fired)
+	missing := storage
+	missing.Usage, missing.Total, missing.Used, missing.Free = 0, 0, 0, 0
+	for _, restart := range []bool{false, true} {
+		if restart {
+			m.Stop()
+			m = start()
+		}
+		observe(m, missing)
+		if got := testRequireActiveAlert(t, m, id); !got.StartTime.Equal(original.StartTime) {
+			t.Fatal("missing capacity replaced incident identity")
+		}
+		requireQuiet()
+	}
+	empty := storage
+	empty.Usage, empty.Used, empty.Free = 0, 0, empty.Total
+	observe(m, empty)
+	if testHasActiveAlert(t, m, id) {
+		t.Fatal("confirmed empty datastore did not recover")
+	}
+	requireCallback(resolved)
+	m.Stop()
+	m = start()
+	observe(m, missing)
+	if testHasActiveAlert(t, m, id) {
+		t.Fatal("missing capacity resurrected resolved incident")
+	}
+	requireQuiet()
+	observe(m, storage)
+	if got := testRequireActiveAlert(t, m, id); !got.StartTime.After(original.StartTime) {
+		t.Fatal("refire reused original incident")
+	}
+	requireCallback(fired)
+	requireQuiet()
+	for kind, want := range map[string]int{eventlog.TypeFired: 2, eventlog.TypeResolved: 1} {
+		if got := len(queryAlertEvents(t, m, eventlog.Filter{Types: []string{kind}})); got != want {
+			t.Fatalf("%s events = %d, want %d", kind, got, want)
+		}
+	}
+}