From f124b7addcc4925ec58861b2369cd9357d9550bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Silvan Mosberger <infinisil@icloud.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2019 12:29:31 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] nixos/znapzend: Increase starting timeout

---
 nixos/modules/services/backup/znapzend.nix | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/backup/znapzend.nix b/nixos/modules/services/backup/znapzend.nix
index 18743752abc..203631a577f 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/services/backup/znapzend.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/backup/znapzend.nix
@@ -399,6 +399,14 @@ in
         '';
 
         serviceConfig = {
+          # znapzendzetup --import apparently tries to connect to the backup
+          # host 3 times with a timeout of 30 seconds, leading to a startup
+          # delay of >90s when the host is down, which is just above the default
+          # service timeout of 90 seconds. Increase the timeout so it doesn't
+          # make the service fail in that case.
+          TimeoutStartSec = 180;
+          # Needs to have write access to ZFS
+          User = "root";
           ExecStart = let
             args = concatStringsSep " " [
               "--logto=${cfg.logTo}"