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A wrapper script that takes ZFS snapshots prior to nixos-rebuild creating a new system
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| This wrapper script creates a shell script named `nixos-rebuild-hooked` that reads your `sanoid` config for which datasets are being managed, snapshots them prior to `nixos-rebuild` running. If you are suing `flakes` like I am you can execute rebuild with these features: `nixos-rebuild-hooked switch --flake .` | |
| ```nix | |
| { config, pkgs, ... }: | |
| { | |
| environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [ | |
| (pkgs.writeShellScriptBin "nixos-rebuild-hooked" '' | |
| echo "Running pre-rebuild hook..." | |
| # Get current system generation once | |
| CURRENT_GEN=$(ls -la /nix/var/nix/profiles/system | grep -o 'system-[0-9]*-link' | tail -1) | |
| echo "Current generation: $CURRENT_GEN" | |
| # Get list of datasets from sanoid configuration | |
| echo "Getting datasets from sanoid configuration..." | |
| DATASETS=$(sudo sanoid --verbose --debug --configdir=/etc/sanoid | grep Filesystem | awk '{print $2}') | |
| if [ -z "$DATASETS" ]; then | |
| echo "No datasets found in sanoid configuration" | |
| exit 1 | |
| fi | |
| echo "Found datasets:" | |
| echo "$DATASETS" | |
| snapshot_with_prefix() { | |
| local dataset="$1" | |
| local timestamp=$(date +%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S) | |
| local snapshot_name="$dataset@''${CURRENT_GEN}_$timestamp" | |
| echo "Creating snapshot: $snapshot_name" | |
| sudo zfs snapshot -r "$snapshot_name" | |
| } | |
| # Loop through each dataset and create snapshots | |
| while IFS= read -r dataset; do | |
| if [ -n "$dataset" ]; then | |
| snapshot_with_prefix "$dataset" | |
| fi | |
| done <<< "$DATASETS" | |
| echo "Pre-rebuild snapshots complete" | |
| # Run nixos-rebuild | |
| exec /run/current-system/sw/bin/nixos-rebuild "$@" | |
| '') | |
| ]; | |
| } | |
| ``` |
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