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authorFranck Cuny <franck@fcuny.net>2022-06-23 06:41:12 -0700
committerFranck Cuny <franck@fcuny.net>2022-06-23 06:45:07 -0700
commited88c9593e5c7675c6ac1fbc1cc7910b84c5592e (patch)
tree63d82eb8193edd2119b007a953a3b7ab9d07e22b /modules/services/unifi/default.nix
parentfeat(home/shell): add alias to search nix packages (diff)
downloadworld-ed88c9593e5c7675c6ac1fbc1cc7910b84c5592e.tar.gz
fix(modules/unifi): only backup the backup directory
`/var/lib/unifi` is almost 1GB. The data directory contains a lot of
files that are changing constantly, which creates a significant amount
of data to backup everyday. Overall if I need to restore a backup for
unifi, I don't care about metrics and other application data, I only
need to restore a backup, which contains the network configuration.

`/var/lib/unifi/data/backup` is smaller:
```
fcuny@tahoe ~> sudo du -sh /var/lib/unifi/data/backup
332M    /var/lib/unifi/data/backup
```

and each backup is about 12MB:
```
fcuny@tahoe ~> sudo ls -ltrh /var/lib/unifi/data/backup/autobackup|tail -2
-rw------- 1 unifi unifi  12M Jun 22 18:15 autobackup_6.5.55_20220623_0115_1655946900001.unf
-rw------- 1 unifi unifi 5.0K Jun 22 18:15 autobackup_meta.json
```

This will reduce the churn in our daily backup significantly.

Change-Id: Ie39ffa9055605298a82ba6731acc34fd4e29309c
Reviewed-on: https://cl.fcuny.net/c/world/+/471
Tested-by: CI
Reviewed-by: Franck Cuny <franck@fcuny.net>
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/modules/services/unifi/default.nix b/modules/services/unifi/default.nix
index a311755..3ffae15 100644
--- a/modules/services/unifi/default.nix
+++ b/modules/services/unifi/default.nix
@@ -83,6 +83,6 @@ in
       credentialsFile = secrets."acme/credentials".path;
     };
 
-    my.services.backup = { paths = [ "/var/lib/unifi" ]; };
+    my.services.backup = { paths = [ "/var/lib/unifi/data/backup" ]; };
   };
 }