diff --git a/crates/ecstore/src/core/pools.rs b/crates/ecstore/src/core/pools.rs
index 02fe70f29..1498d3ada 100644
--- a/crates/ecstore/src/core/pools.rs
+++ b/crates/ecstore/src/core/pools.rs
@@ -1041,7 +1041,13 @@ fn should_count_decommission_version_complete(ignore: bool, cleanup_ignored: boo
 fn is_decommission_copy_cleanup_safe_error(err: &Error) -> bool {
     // DataMovementOverwriteErr only means source and destination pool resolved to
     // the same pool. Without a target equivalence check it is not cleanup-safe.
-    is_err_object_not_found(err) || is_err_version_not_found(err)
+    if is_err_object_not_found(err) || is_err_version_not_found(err) {
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    // A not-found surfacing from inside a data-movement stage is the same
+    // condition once the wrapper is unwrapped (backlog#1827 T2).
+    crate::data_movement::data_movement_stage_source(err).is_some_and(is_decommission_copy_cleanup_safe_error)
 }
 
 fn is_decommission_target_capacity_error(err: &Error) -> bool {
@@ -1049,6 +1055,13 @@ fn is_decommission_target_capacity_error(err: &Error) -> bool {
         return true;
     }
 
+    // A stage failure keeps the error it wrapped, so classify by type rather
+    // than by the rendered message (backlog#1827 T2). The substring fallback
+    // stays for errors that reached here through some other wrapper.
+    if let Some(source) = crate::data_movement::data_movement_stage_source(err) {
+        return is_decommission_target_capacity_error(source);
+    }
+
     let message = err.to_string();
     let disk_full = Error::DiskFull.to_string();
     let storage_full = Error::StorageFull.to_string();
@@ -4427,6 +4440,36 @@ mod tests {
         assert!(is_decommission_target_capacity_error(&Error::StorageFull));
     }
 
+    /// The decommission loop classifies errors that came back through a
+    /// data-movement stage wrapper. Before backlog#1827 T2 the wrapper flattened
+    /// everything into `Error::other(String)`, so these two classifiers had to
+    /// match on rendered text; now the wrapped error is recoverable by type.
+    #[test]
+    fn decommission_classifiers_see_through_a_stage_wrapper() {
+        let wrap = |inner: Error| {
+            crate::data_movement::data_movement_stage_error_for_test(
+                "decommission_object",
+                "put_object",
+                "bucket-a",
+                "object-a",
+                inner,
+            )
+        };
+
+        // Capacity: the target pool filling up must still stop the loop.
+        assert!(is_decommission_target_capacity_error(&wrap(Error::DiskFull)));
+        assert!(is_decommission_target_capacity_error(&wrap(Error::StorageFull)));
+        assert!(!is_decommission_target_capacity_error(&wrap(Error::SlowDown)));
+
+        // Cleanup safety: a not-found surfacing from inside a stage is the same
+        // condition as one surfacing directly, so the source entry stays
+        // eligible for cleanup.
+        let not_found = Error::ObjectNotFound("bucket-a".to_string(), "object-a".to_string());
+        assert!(is_decommission_copy_cleanup_safe_error(&not_found));
+        assert!(is_decommission_copy_cleanup_safe_error(&wrap(not_found)));
+        assert!(!is_decommission_copy_cleanup_safe_error(&wrap(Error::SlowDown)));
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn decommission_target_capacity_error_accepts_wrapped_capacity_errors() {
         let disk_full = Error::other(format!("decommission_object: put_object failed for bucket/object: {}", Error::DiskFull));
diff --git a/crates/ecstore/src/data_movement/mod.rs b/crates/ecstore/src/data_movement/mod.rs
index 8f7d63580..1f4daa703 100644
--- a/crates/ecstore/src/data_movement/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/ecstore/src/data_movement/mod.rs
@@ -471,8 +471,60 @@ fn resolve_data_movement_abort_result(
     ))
 }
 
-fn data_movement_stage_error(op_label: &str, stage: &str, bucket: &str, object: &str, err: impl std::fmt::Display) -> Error {
-    Error::other(format!("{op_label}: {stage} failed for {bucket}/{object}: {err}"))
+/// A data-movement stage failure that keeps the error it wrapped.
+///
+/// The rendered message is byte-identical to the `format!` this replaced, so
+/// logs and any message-matching callers are unaffected. What changes is that
+/// the original error stays reachable through `source()`, which is what lets
+/// the decommission loop classify by type instead of by substring
+/// (backlog#1827 T2).
+#[derive(Debug)]
+struct DataMovementStageError {
+    rendered: String,
+    source: Box<dyn std::error::Error + Send + Sync>,
+}
+
+impl std::fmt::Display for DataMovementStageError {
+    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
+        f.write_str(&self.rendered)
+    }
+}
+
+impl std::error::Error for DataMovementStageError {
+    fn source(&self) -> Option<&(dyn std::error::Error + 'static)> {
+        Some(self.source.as_ref())
+    }
+}
+
+fn data_movement_stage_error<E>(op_label: &str, stage: &str, bucket: &str, object: &str, err: E) -> Error
+where
+    E: std::error::Error + Send + Sync + 'static,
+{
+    let rendered = format!("{op_label}: {stage} failed for {bucket}/{object}: {err}");
+    Error::other(DataMovementStageError {
+        rendered,
+        source: Box::new(err),
+    })
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+pub(crate) fn data_movement_stage_error_for_test(op_label: &str, stage: &str, bucket: &str, object: &str, err: Error) -> Error {
+    data_movement_stage_error(op_label, stage, bucket, object, err)
+}
+
+/// Recover the error a [`data_movement_stage_error`] wrapped, if this is one.
+///
+/// `Error::other` boxes through `std::io::Error`, so the chain is
+/// `StorageError::Io` -> `DataMovementStageError` -> the original error.
+pub(crate) fn data_movement_stage_source(err: &Error) -> Option<&Error> {
+    let Error::Io(io_err) = err else {
+        return None;
+    };
+    io_err
+        .get_ref()?
+        .downcast_ref::<DataMovementStageError>()?
+        .source
+        .downcast_ref::<Error>()
 }
 
 fn schedule_data_movement_multipart_abort_cleanup(
@@ -1865,6 +1917,40 @@ mod tests {
         assert!(message.contains(Error::SlowDown.to_string().as_str()));
     }
 
+    #[test]
+    fn stage_error_renders_exactly_as_the_format_it_replaced() {
+        // The wrapper gained a source; its message must not have moved, or log
+        // scrapers and any message-matching caller would break (backlog#1827 T2).
+        // `Error::other` renders through `StorageError::Io`, which prefixes
+        // "Io error: " — that was true of the `format!` this replaced too, so
+        // the full string is what must stay stable.
+        let err = data_movement_stage_error("rebalance_object", "put_object", "bucket-a", "object-a", Error::SlowDown);
+        assert_eq!(
+            err.to_string(),
+            format!("Io error: rebalance_object: put_object failed for bucket-a/object-a: {}", Error::SlowDown)
+        );
+        assert_eq!(
+            err.to_string(),
+            Error::other(format!("rebalance_object: put_object failed for bucket-a/object-a: {}", Error::SlowDown)).to_string()
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn stage_error_keeps_the_wrapped_error_recoverable() {
+        for original in [Error::DiskFull, Error::StorageFull, Error::FileNotFound, Error::SlowDown] {
+            let wrapped =
+                data_movement_stage_error("decommission_object", "put_object", "bucket-a", "object-a", original.clone());
+            let recovered = data_movement_stage_source(&wrapped).expect("the wrapped error must be recoverable");
+            assert_eq!(recovered.to_string(), original.to_string());
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn stage_source_ignores_errors_it_did_not_wrap() {
+        assert!(data_movement_stage_source(&Error::DiskFull).is_none());
+        assert!(data_movement_stage_source(&Error::other("plain io error")).is_none());
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn test_data_movement_part_stage_error_includes_stage_object_and_part() {
         let err =