restic-snapshot

Command line utility to send a snapshot of $HOME to offsite storage using restic on an hourly basis.

Installation

• Install restic with brew install restic
• Copy ./bin/restic-snapshot to $HOME/.local/bin
• Copy ./etc/restic-snapshot.excludes to $HOME/.local/etc
• Copy ./LaunchAgents/com.mattolson.restic-snapshot.plist to $HOME/Library/LaunchAgents and update values as appropriate for your environment (all the placeholders that start with $)
• Run launchctl load -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.mattolson.restic-snapshot.plist to install the LaunchAgent
• Go into your System Settings -> Privacy & Security -> Full Disk Access and add /bin/bash and /opt/homebrew/bin/restic