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Thank you! It definitely does, I will be using that Restic article for sure! I actually use NixOS on my main laptop, which I found via Vimjoyer’s videos. It’s great, though I wish documentation for more advanced usage was more readily available. I started making the server, currently my biggest roadblock is testing the infrastructure without going live (I made the flake generate a VM for now but it takes a long time to build it every edit and I can’t even get ssh working) and figuring out how I’ll eventually install it with minimal downtime.

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Byter@lemmy.one ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
On the topic of build times, it took me too long to learn that nixos-rebuild supports remote build workers and targets.

For example, if I am editing on my laptop, want to build on my desktop, and apply the build to my file server, then I’d run…

me@laptop$ nixos-rebuild \ --flake ~/wherever-it-lives \ --build-host desktop \ --target-host file-server \ --use-remote-sudo

The host names should match the name of the nixosConfiguration output from your flake. If they don’t I think you can specify like, –target-host .#some-machine

Remote sudo avoids having to SSH as root.

Bonus tip: Having Tailscale on every machine makes this work reliably from anywhere, network speed as the limit.
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