TIDE/README.md

TIDE

TIDE is the NixOS module for the Torah Im Derech Eretz forum. It deploys the forum with NixOS Discourse and configures its production Borg backup.

NixOS module

Import nixosModules.tide or nixosModules.default, then provide the runtime secret paths:

services.tide = {
  enable = true;
  secretFiles = {
    adminPassword = "/run/secrets/tide-admin-password";
    mailPassword = "/run/secrets/tide-mail-password";
    secretKeyBase = "/run/secrets/tide-secret-key-base";
    borgPassphrase = "/run/secrets/borg-passphrase";
    borgPrivateKey = "/run/secrets/borg-private-key";
  };
};

The module owns the forum hostname, site identity, SMTP configuration, and backup policy. The importing host owns secret provisioning.

See RECOVERY.md for the database and state restoration procedure.