Very well. Here it goes:
Purpose: backing up personal data (as of now 5.3GB) from Mac to B2 using two scripts (backup and maintenance) and schedule them both using launch agents.
(All links are from Github)
- It has a include file that is fed to
--files-fromand an exclude file [0]. - Then it runs
checkwith--with-cacheto keep B2 cost low (as it will run 4 times a day) - Then it just runs
statsand resets all the credential env vars. - Every command’s output is appended to a single log file.
- Frequency: everyday at 0800, 1200, 1600, 2200 (launch agent amar.restic.backup.plist)
- runs
forgetwith--prunekeeping last 10, 7 daily, 5 weekly, 12 monthly, and 3 yearly snapshots - runs
checkwithout cache then printsstats. - Same env vars and logging method as the backup script.
- Frequency: Every Monday and Thursday at 1330 (launch agent amar.restic.maintenance.plist).
[0] Restic file/dir include/exclude files, credentials file, and a file with env vars are as described in this gist here.
Issues and things I have not figured out:
- How can I trigger desktop notifications whenever the scripts run (and possibly an email too, with summary of what happened - esp. for fail cases)?
- I could not find any option to compress data - did I miss something? (this is a trial backup set – I have actual data set that’s a lot larger than this)
- For subsequent backups I would like to see what actually changed i.e.
- What files/folders were new
- What were modified (changed/deleted etc)
- And if that means a little bigger log output, I can live with that. The thing is every backup is adding ~20MB files to repo and I can’t see why (whether it’s the Mail/V5 folder and I wanted to make sure).
Or in general please suggest anything that I should change to make it better, simpler, and more portable.