Requested: mirror to Backblaze B2 AND directly to the IONOS spare box
over Tailscale, at the same time, not one or the other. REMOTE_TYPE/
REMOTE_ARGS was hardcoded to a single mirror target — extending it to a
list would have meant redesigning the one thing that already works and
was already verified against real B2 credentials, so this adds a
separate, additive mechanism instead: EXTRA_MIRROR_NAMES, a space-
separated list, with per-entry MIRROR_<name>_TYPE/_ARGS (same argument
shape as REMOTE_ARGS). An existing B2-only backup.conf keeps working
completely unchanged if this new section is skipped.
install_backup() gets a new "ADDITIONAL MIRROR" prompt after the
existing B2 section: offers a direct SFTP mirror (Kopia's sync-to sftp,
not the deprecated b2 provider — same reasoning as the S3/B2 choice
already made), defaults the destination to whatever was typed at the
DR-spare prompt above (same box, same purpose, no reason to ask twice),
checks passwordless SSH and an SSH key exist first, then verifies with a
--dry-run against the just-created 'default' repo before saving it —
same "don't save something broken" discipline as the B2 flow. Verified
against a mock backup.conf that install-side writes and worker-side
reads agree on the exact format, and that reusing an existing mirror
name reconfigures it instead of duplicating it in the name list.
One correction while researching sync-to sftp's flags: unlike plain ssh,
Kopia doesn't shell out to the system SSH client, so it needs an
explicit --keyfile and --known-hosts path rather than picking up
whatever `ssh` already trusts automatically — checked Kopia's own docs
for the exact flags before writing this, same as the earlier S3 case.
extras/backup_kopia.sh's worker loops through EXTRA_MIRROR_NAMES after
the existing REMOTE_TYPE mirror step, running sync-to for each
destination against each additional mirror and folding failures into
the same FAILED_SVCS/notification reporting the primary mirror already
uses. Verified end-to-end against a mock backup.conf and a stubbed
kp_for: both the B2 and the new SFTP mirror get called in sequence with
the correct arguments.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01H4k6J1qXXyYxhGEgnJaMvn
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