dotfiles Mackup symlink configuration

There's every chance this didn't work for me because I don't really know what I am doing...

Working through the configuration and running Mackup had it backing up to Dropbox which I understand to be the default provider. After trying a couple of things, I went back to an older version of your repo and added the Mackup config symlink with $HOME in the path:

ln -s $HOME/.dotfiles/.mackup.cfg $HOME/.mackup.cfg

When re-running 'mackup backup', this then correctly detected the iCloud storage preference and was good to go.

Nov 10 '24 02:11 anthonysexton

Thanks @anthonysexton. Did you follow https://github.com/driesvints/dotfiles?tab=readme-ov-file#setting-up-your-mac and Cd' into the dotfiles repo before running the fresh script?

Nov 12 '24 14:11 driesvints

I thought I did. I would have run them a couple of times in the end as it stopped a couple of times for some reason.

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Nov 14 '24 09:11 anthonysexton

bit odd. I'm not sure there's much here for me to move forward with. Are you happy with closing this one?

Nov 14 '24 10:11 driesvints

Yep- I will give it another run when I set up the next clean mac and see what happens (with better notes!)

Nov 16 '24 21:11 anthonysexton

This might be related to Mackup no longer supporting new versions of MacOS: https://github.com/lra/mackup?tab=readme-ov-file#warning

Dec 14 '24 12:12 imacrayon

Thanks @imacrayon that's probably it. We should look into an alternative then..

Dec 16 '24 08:12 driesvints

@driesvints Any update on an alternative already?

Mar 16 '25 18:03 MichaelDeBoey

No. I probably won't have any time anytime soon to look into it so appreciate any help here.

Mar 17 '25 09:03 driesvints

The following items are what I could gather regarding the issue on mackup's backlog. Hope it helps and gets you updated to current state.

Is this the PR to help this issue?

On another note, someone already did figure out a solution in a PR but it seems to be too big to review.

There was a poll here recently.

May 08 '25 14:05 j-ilden

Thanks @j-ilden I really appreciate you taking the time. If I understand this correctly, the PR with the --copy-only flag basically behaves the same as mackup backup except that it doesn't creates symlinks but it only one-time performs a backup? If so then yes that could be a viable alternative. It won't save your settings if your computer crashes but at least you have the ability to backup your settings before installing fresh.

May 09 '25 06:05 driesvints

Looks like this is implemented now in the latest markup version. Thanks all

Oct 18 '25 17:10 driesvints