MacOS Backup System

Clone the repository into the specified folder (~/Developer/env-backup).

git clone https://github.com/adamtuby/env-backup.git ~/Developer/env-backup

If you so defiantly not do so, you would have to adapt the git repo dir's entry it in the config.json file.
If you are reading this after exhaustingly debugging, I suspect there's a lesson to be learned here.

Requirements

Prerequisites

brew install fswatch flock

Config file

Edit the config file to back your directories of interest (config.json).

Config example:

{
  "git_repo_dir": "~/Developer/env-backup",
  "git_branch": "main",
  "debounce_seconds": 20,
  "entries": [
    {
      "name": "zshrc",
      "type": "file",
      "watch": true,
      "src": "~/.zshrc",
      "dst_repo": "~/Developer/env-backup/dotfiles/.zshrc"
    },
    {
      "name": "unms_research",
      "type": "dir",
      "watch": true,
      "src": "~/UNMS/Research",
      "dst_repo": "~/Developer/env-backup/UNMS/Research",
      "excludes": [".DS_Store", "Icon?", "*.swp", "*.tmp"]
    },
    {
      "name": "research_un_ms",
      "type": "dir",
      "watch": true,
      "src": "~/Library/Application Support/research.un.ms",
      "dst_repo": "research.un.ms", // Notice the relative path? Yes. Both absolute and relative paths to the repo directory work (it'll be saved in the repo's backup dir (REPO/backup) though)
      "excludes": [".DS_Store", "Icon?", "*.swp", "*.tmp"],
      "icloud_mirror": {
        "dst": "~/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/UNMS-Research-Sync-Backup/research.un.ms",
        "use_backup_archive": true,
        "backup_dir_name": "backup-archive",
        "exclude_backup_dir": "backup-archive"
      }
    }
  ]
}

The setup script (run once)

python3 ~/Developer/env-backup/setup_env_backup.py

It may require to enter password for the sake of sudo privileges.

Setup script for login extension

bash bin/load.sh

Backups stored at the backup directory. Enjoy.