lra/mackup
Mackup
Mackup is a dotfile backup manager and application settings backup tool designed to keep software configuration files consistent across multiple computers. It functions by copying home directory configuration files into a centralized storage folder for preservation, restoration, and synchronization.
The utility utilizes a symbolic link manager to replace local configuration files with symlinks pointing to a synchronized folder, enabling real-time updates. It supports cloud storage integration, allowing these configuration directories to be mirrored to remote backends for cross-machine environment setup.
The system includes mechanisms for defining backup scopes and synchronization rules, permitting the addition of custom path targets for unsupported applications. It provides capabilities for both backing up local settings to a sync folder and restoring those settings to initialize a new workstation.
Features
- Dotfile Managers - Acts as a dotfile backup manager that synchronizes application configuration files across multiple machines using symbolic links.
- Dotfile Symlink Management - Manages dotfile synchronization by replacing local configuration files with symbolic links to a synchronized folder.
- Configuration Synchronization - Implements synchronization rules to include additional files or unsupported applications in the backup process.
- Application Backups - Copies home directory configuration files into a centralized storage folder for preservation and restoration across different machines.
- Application Settings - Preserves user-defined application preferences by copying them into a designated synchronization folder.
- Settings Restoration - Copies configuration files from a storage folder back to the home directory to initialize new workstations.
- Symbolic Link Managers - Uses a symbolic link manager to maintain real-time synchronization between the home directory and a storage folder.
- Configuration Linking - Replaces local configuration files with symbolic links pointing to a synchronized folder for real-time updates.
- Backup Storage Backends - Supports multiple storage backends, including local disks and remote cloud providers, for backup storage.
- Cloud Storage Integrations - Integrates with remote cloud storage providers to synchronize configuration folders across environments.
- Bidirectional Folder Synchronization - Implements bidirectional folder synchronization to keep configuration files identical between local environments and storage folders.
- Cross-Machine Configuration Synchronization - Maintains consistent configuration states across multiple machines using cloud or local storage.
- Configuration Backups - Provides mechanisms to specify which configuration files and directories belong to a specific application.
- Configuration Mirroring - Supports mirroring configuration directories to remote cloud backends for cross-machine environment setup.
- Custom Synchronization Paths - Allows the definition of personal files or unsupported application paths to be included in the backup process.
- Backup Scope Filtering - Provides a configuration-based method to control which specific application settings are backed up or ignored.
- Custom Backup Targets - Allows the addition of arbitrary files and unsupported applications through user-defined configuration overrides.
- Configuration-Based Setup - Initializes new workstations by pulling stored configurations from a remote backend.
- Application Path Mappings - Uses external configuration files to map application names to their corresponding filesystem paths.
- Custom Configuration Targets - Enables support for arbitrary home folder directories via custom configuration files.
- Path Resolution Utilities - Provides utilities to translate abstract application identifiers into absolute filesystem paths.
- Backup Utilities - Synchronize application settings and dotfiles across different machines.
- Dotfile Managers - Syncs application settings across macOS and Linux.
- Terminal Productivity - Sync application settings across systems.
- System Automation - Synchronizes application settings across devices.
- System Utilities - Synchronize application settings across devices.
