Add only new installed/supported app configs to backup

[Countryen]

Hey there, I am using mackup very basic without any extra adapter.

When I update mackup / when new apps are supported by mackup in the future or if I install new applications that are already supported by mackup - how do I tell mackup that?

I currently run mackup backup every week (periodic maintenance) but it then asks me every time to confirm overwriting the current file for all configs that are already backed up. Here I say No for every question.

I am sure you can automate this but maybe that could break with upgrades and maybe it makes sense to just add this as a flag or option or a separate command like mackup backup --only-new / --no-override.

Or maybe someone already does this and knows how? I don't see it in the docs.

[joshmedeski]

That's a good idea. I would also like to see something like this. The project hasn't had any new features for some time, so we'd have to probably implement something like this ourselves.

I think a --only-new or --skip-existing flag would make it easier to scan for just applications that haven't been backed up before. I'd also love to see a summary of what got backed up after the script completes.

Hopefully mackup --dry-run --verbose backup can help in the mean time. It will list items like "is already backed up" to give you some insight without actually running the backup.