Merge pull request #70070 from Ma27/borgbackup-removable-devices

nixos/borgbackup: add option to allow removable devices

nixos/modules/services/backup/borgbackup.nix

@@ -104,12 +104,12 @@ let
       install = "install -o ${cfg.user} -g ${cfg.group}";
     in
       nameValuePair "borgbackup-job-${name}" (stringAfter [ "users" ] (''
-        # Eensure that the home directory already exists
+        # Ensure that the home directory already exists
         # We can't assert createHome == true because that's not the case for root
         cd "${config.users.users.${cfg.user}.home}"
         ${install} -d .config/borg
         ${install} -d .cache/borg
-      '' + optionalString (isLocalPath cfg.repo) ''
+      '' + optionalString (isLocalPath cfg.repo && !cfg.removableDevice) ''
         ${install} -d ${escapeShellArg cfg.repo}
       ''));
 
@@ -163,6 +163,13 @@ let
       + " without at least one public key";
   };
 
+  mkRemovableDeviceAssertions = name: cfg: {
+    assertion = !(isLocalPath cfg.repo) -> !cfg.removableDevice;
+    message = ''
+      borgbackup.repos.${name}: repo isn't a local path, thus it can't be a removable device!
+    '';
+  };
+
 in {
   meta.maintainers = with maintainers; [ dotlambda ];
 
@@ -202,6 +209,12 @@ in {
             example = "user@machine:/path/to/repo";
           };
 
+          removableDevice = mkOption {
+            type = types.bool;
+            default = false;
+            description = "Whether the repo (which must be local) is a removable device.";
+          };
+
           archiveBaseName = mkOption {
             type = types.strMatching "[^/{}]+";
             default = "${globalConfig.networking.hostName}-${name}";
@@ -511,7 +524,6 @@ in {
     type = types.attrsOf (types.submodule (
       { ... }: {
         options = {
-          
           path = mkOption {
             type = types.path;
             description = ''
@@ -598,7 +610,8 @@ in {
     (with config.services.borgbackup; {
       assertions =
         mapAttrsToList mkPassAssertion jobs
-        ++ mapAttrsToList mkKeysAssertion repos;
+        ++ mapAttrsToList mkKeysAssertion repos
+        ++ mapAttrsToList mkRemovableDeviceAssertions jobs;
 
       system.activationScripts = mapAttrs' mkActivationScript jobs;