alt Hacker NewsHow do you configure the backups with NixOS? Didn't see that explained in the article at all
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What sort of backups are you after? For a system-wide backup, I don't bother. I have the git config for the system in a remote repo. Rebuilding the system is a matter of bootstrapping and then just pointing nix at the config. For my data that is outside the scope of nix, i just have a rclone cron that syncs to/from a remote store.
Given the flake for freshrss doesn't have any sort of explicit "backup" option, my hunch is the author is doing something similar. Point the data dir to a location that gets automatically sync'd elsewhere.
You would add something like:
services.restic.backups.my_repo.paths = [ config.services.freshrss.dataDir ];
I set up a systemd job to run at shutdown to run Borg. The hardest part wasn't the Nix setup, but getting the right systemd magic words.
https://github.com/Xophmeister/backer-upper/
I believe there are NixOS options to do this periodically -- which is even easier -- but I specifically wanted on-shutdown backups.
Not op, but I have a similar setup. I declare systemd services and timers as Nix config to run a restic backup every night.
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-26.05/nixos/modu...