I’m migrating my NAS to nixos, and I got to the point of setting up my restic backups.
services.restic.backups is great, but – on top of the systemd timers/services – I also want some helper scripts (eg. one to easily mount the backups, stuff that with ansible I currently generate into /usr/local/sbin).
These scripts would be entirely generated from the services.restic.backups config and would reference sops secrets also from configuration.nix, so… I don’t think it would make sense to make a package out of them?
What should I use to make these scripts? Should I use nixpkgs.writeShellApplication and then alter the PATH?
Yeah, it was quite a learning curve for me too. I found reading Nix Pills was helpful. I put it off too long even after seeing lots of recommendations. It turns out the recommendations are apt.