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ryan4yin | 二花 e37042f61c feat(youko): restic backup of the service state to the HDD (part 1) (#299)
* feat(hosts): per-host restic backups to the SMB remote

Replace the disabled aggregate job (which rsynced every host's /persistent
into /tmp - a tmpfs - and silently produced incomplete backups) with one
restic repo per host, backing up its own data directly:

- shared module lib/genResticBackup.nix: secrets, rclone/SMB target
  (rclone:smb-downloads:/Downloads/homelab-backup/<host>), retention, and
  excludes for the regenerable/bulky paths (podman overlay layers, microvm
  and libvirt disk images, nfs golden images, logs, caches)
- youko additionally backs up the service state under /persistent/var/lib
  and dumps all postgres databases first (a consistent SQL artifact beside
  the crash-consistent data dir)
- shoryu/shushou back up /etc/agenix, /etc/ssh and the k3s token

Needs three agenix secrets before it can run: restic-password,
ssh-key-for-restic-backup and rclone-conf-for-restic-backup.

* refactor(hosts): only restic does off-host; btrbk stays local

btrbk works at the subvolume level, so a  would ship the whole
@persistent - including podman's overlay storage, the microVM/libvirt
images and the nfs golden images - which is exactly the regenerable bulk
we want out of the backups.

So: btrbk keeps making the cheap local CoW snapshots (quick rollbacks),
and restic owns the off-host copies with file-level excludes. Back up the
whole /persistent minus those excludes, so nothing is missed.

Update the btrbk module's comment to say so.

* fix(restic): never back up keys; drop the implicit /etc/agenix

restic's own password lives in /etc/agenix, so backing that up would store
the repository's password inside the repository. Exclude agenix, the ssh
host keys and the usual credential dirs (.ssh, .gnupg, .aws, gcloud).

* refactor(restic): make the backup a proper module

Replace lib/genResticBackup.nix with modules/nixos/base/restic-backup.nix,
which declares modules.restic-backup options (enable, repository, paths,
exclude, requiresMountsFor, postgresDump) like the btrbk module does.
youko just sets the options now.

* refactor(restic): exclude the whole podman storage, trim retention

Exclude /persistent/var/lib/containers wholesale: the image layers are
re-pullable and podman's storage DB is not consistent when copied from a
running podman. uptime-kuma's named volume lives there, but its data is
not wanted anyway.

Retention: daily 3, weekly 2, monthly 2 - no yearly.

* refactor(restic): back up a short-lived btrfs snapshot, drop pg_dump

A live copy of a running postgres data dir is only crash-consistent. Instead
of a daily pg_dumpall (which duplicates the data in the repository and gets
slower as the DB grows), take a short-lived read-only btrfs snapshot in
backupPrepareCommand, back that up, and delete it right after - a
consistency step, not a second backup. The excludes are relative now so they
work for both the snapshot and a direct path.

* feat(secrets): restic-password for modules.restic-backup

With the rekeyed secret in nix-secrets (storage group, alongside
hdd-luks-crypt-key), the module's passwordFile resolves.

* fix(restic): agenix's secret is under /run/agenix, not /etc/agenix

* fix(restic): take the password path from agenix, not a hardcoded one

config.age.secrets."restic-password".path follows agenix's secretsDir, so it
stays correct if that changes.
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NixOS / Nix-Darwin's Submodules

This directory contains modular NixOS and Nix-Darwin configurations organized by platform and functionality.

Current Structure

modules/
├── README.md
├── base/                    # Common configuration for all platforms
│   ├── default.nix
│   ├── fonts.nix           # System font configuration
│   ├── nix.nix            # Nix package manager settings
│   ├── overlays.nix       # Package overlays
│   ├── security.nix       # Basic security settings
│   ├── system-packages.nix # Essential system packages
│   └── users.nix          # User management
├── darwin/                  # macOS-specific modules
│   ├── README.md
│   ├── apps.nix           # macOS applications
│   ├── broken-packages.nix # Package compatibility fixes
│   ├── default.nix
│   ├── nix-core.nix       # Core Nix configuration
│   ├── security.nix       # macOS security settings
│   ├── ssh.nix           # SSH configuration
│   ├── system.nix        # System-level settings
│   └── users.nix         # macOS user management
└── nixos/                   # NixOS-specific modules
    ├── base/               # Base NixOS configuration
    │   ├── btrbk.nix      # Backup configuration
    │   ├── core.nix       # Core system settings
    │   ├── default.nix
    │   ├── i18n.nix       # Internationalization
    │   ├── monitoring.nix # System monitoring
    │   ├── networking.nix # Network configuration
    │   ├── nix.nix        # Nix settings
    │   ├── packages.nix   # System packages
    │   ├── remote-building.nix # Remote build setup
    │   ├── ssh.nix        # SSH daemon configuration
    │   ├── user-group.nix # User and group management
    │   └── zram.nix       # ZRAM swap configuration
    ├── desktop.nix         # Desktop environment configuration
    ├── desktop/            # Desktop-specific modules
    │   ├── default.nix
    │   ├── fhs.nix        # FHS environment
    │   ├── fonts.nix      # Desktop fonts
    │   ├── guix.nix       # GNU Guix integration
    │   ├── misc.nix       # Miscellaneous desktop settings
    │   ├── networking/    # Network-related desktop configs
    │   │   ├── clash-verge.nix
    │   │   ├── default.nix
    │   │   ├── remote-desktop.nix
    │   │   └── tailscale.nix
    │   ├── peripherals.nix # Peripheral device configuration
    │   ├── security.nix   # Desktop security settings
    │   ├── virtualisation.nix # Virtualization support
    │   └── xdg.nix       # XDG base directory settings
    └── server/             # Server-specific modules
        ├── qemu-guest-hardware-configuration.nix
        ├── server-aarch64.nix
        ├── server-riscv64.nix
        └── server.nix

Module Categories

1. Base Modules (base/)

Common configuration shared between NixOS and macOS:

  • System fonts and localization
  • Essential packages and tools
  • Basic security settings
  • User management
  • Package overlays

2. macOS Modules (darwin/)

macOS-specific configuration:

  • macOS applications and system settings
  • Security configurations tailored for macOS
  • SSH and system-level settings
  • Package compatibility fixes

3. NixOS Modules (nixos/)

Platform-specific NixOS configuration:

  • Base: Core system settings and services
  • Desktop: Desktop environment and GUI applications
  • Server: Server-specific optimizations and services

Usage

Modules are imported based on platform detection:

  • NixOS Systems: Import nixos/ modules
  • macOS Systems: Import darwin/ modules
  • All Systems: Import base/ modules for shared configuration

Architecture Support

  • x86_64-linux: Desktop and server configurations
  • aarch64-linux: ARM64 Linux systems
  • aarch64-darwin: Apple Silicon macOS systems
  • server-riscv64: RISC-V server configurations