For when you don’t already have a kubernetes cluster

Level 1: Just Back It Up#

  1. Install syncthing for your distro and add another device

    1. This tutorial won’t go into that, see the official syncthing tutorial here

  2. Move the weechat folders to ~/Sync (the default syncthing directory) and symlink them back

# Create Syncthing directory for WeeChat
mkdir -p ~/Sync/weechat

# Move WeeChat data to Syncthing directory
mv ~/.local/share/weechat/ ~/Sync/weechat/logs
mv ~/.config/weechat/ ~/Sync/weechat/config

# Create symlinks back to original locations
ln -s ~/Sync/weechat/config ~/.config/weechat
ln -s ~/Sync/weechat/logs ~/.local/share/weechat
  1. Done! your weechat config and logs will now sync between devices

Level 2: Nix Declarative Config and Versioning#

Create a syncthing.nix:

{ config, pkgs, ... }:
let
	allDevices = [ "device1" "device2" ]; # Replace with your device names
in
{
	services.syncthing = {
		enable = true;
		user = "user"; # Replace with your username
		dataDir = "/home/user";
		configDir = "/home/user/.config/syncthing";
		settings = {
			devices = {
				device1.id = "id"; # Replace with device id
				device2.id = "id";
			};
			folders = {
				"/home/user/Sync" = {
					label = "Sync";
					id = "default";
					devices = allDevices;
					versioning = {
						type = "simple";
						params.keep = "3"; # Keep 3 past versions
					};
				};
			};
		};
	};
}

Level 3: Firejail#

  • that’s right we’re going all the way back to my first post for this one!

  1. Create directory for the jail:

    mkdir -p ~/Sync/jails/weechat

  2. Make a ~/bin/weechat:

#!/bin/sh
firejail \
  --noprofile \
  --private=$HOME/Sync/jails/weechat \
  --keep-var-tmp \    # Can transfer files to/from /var/tmp
  --caps.keep=sys_admin,sys_chroot \
  --netfilter \
  --nodbus \
  --nodvd \
  --nogroups \
  --notv \
  --shell=none \
  --disable-mnt \
  --private-dev \
  --private-tmp \
  /usr/bin/weechat