[fallingsquirrel]

In fairness, this app supports snapshotting your home directory as well, and that's not solvable with Nix alone. In fact, I'm running NixOS and I've been meaning to set up Timeshift or Snapper for my homedir, but alas, I haven't found the time.

[__MatrixMan__]

Is there something about your home directory that you'd want to back up that is not covered by invoking home manager as a nix module as part if nixos-rebuild?

https://nix-community.github.io/home-manager/index.xhtml#sec...

To me, it's better than a filesystem-backup because the things that make it into home manager tend to be exactly the things that I want to back up. The rest of it (e.g. screenshots, downloads) aren't something I'd want in a backup scheme anyhow.

[fallingsquirrel]

I want to keep snapshots of my work. I run nightly backups which have come in handy numerous times, but accessing the cloud storage is always slow, and sometimes I've even paid a few cents in bandwidth to download my own files. It would be a lot smoother if everything was local and I could grep through /.snapshots/<date>/<project>.

[SAI_Peregrinus]

Data (documents, pictures, source code, etc.) is not handled by home-manager. Backing up home.nix saves your config, but the data is just as if not more important.

[__MatrixMan__]

Hmm, different strokes I guess. Maybe it's just that too much kubernetes has gone to my head, but I see files as ephemeral.

Code and docs are in source control. My phone syncs images to PCloud when I take them. Anything I download is backed up... wherever I downloaded it from.

[SAI_Peregrinus]

Cloud sync != backup. Cloud sync won't help if you accidentally delete the file, backups will. Cloud sync won't help if you make an undesired edit, backups will.

[__MatrixMan__]

But I can just rebuild the file, or restore it from a previous commit (or if I'm having a particularly bad day, restore its inputs from a previous commit and _then_ rebuild it).