lra
Schedule backups, without symlinks
Hello,
Thank you for this really great tool! The question I’m asking might seem a bit weird, given that it’s not exactly in the original philosophy of Mackup: I’m looking for a way to back up all my settings, but since I’ve been having a couple of issues with Mackup recently, I’m a bit scared to use it again in its original form. (For mysterious reasons, BetterTouchTool and Hazel started behaving weirdly, and it took me hours of debugging until I found out it came from Mackup.)
However, Mackup knows where the config files are, knows how to back them up, and so I thought maybe there’s a way of scheduling backups with Mackup, without the symlink part? It’s slightly less comfortable, but still extremely efficient, I guess? The scheduling would of course be done with OS tools, I would just use some switch in Mackup that would do, ideally versioned, backups of the settings of my programs.
Is this something, @lra, that you could envision?
All the best to you all!
I tried to address the same need and came up with a new tool based on the same configuration files. https://github.com/sstraus/SettingsSentry I would appreciate any feedback you can give.
Oh, and for anyone coming here in the meantime: I found that Supercharge by Sindre Sorhus (https://sindresorhus.com/supercharge) can at least save configuration files when you ask it to (not regularly if I remember right). It’s not free, unlike many of the other programs @sindresorhus is making, but maybe it can be useful for some who see this post.
Fully support, Don't Touch Source System backup mode would be extremely useful. @lra would you comment?
Ok
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Oh, and for anyone coming here in the meantime: I found that Supercharge by Sindre Sorhus (https://sindresorhus.com/supercharge) can at least save configuration files when you ask it to (not regularly if I remember right).
You can export app settings using the action provided for the Shortcuts app, and from macOS 26, you can schedule shortcuts.
