shallow-backup lets you easily create lightweight backups of installed packages, applications, fonts and dotfiles, and automatically push them to a remote Git repository.
This backup tool is git-integrated, meaning that you can easily store your backups remotely (on GitHub, for example.) Dotfiles and configuration files may contain sensitive information like API keys and ssh keys, and you don’t want to make those public.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Back up dotfiles from where they live on the system.
- Back up files from any path on the system, not just $HOME.
- Reinstall them from the backup directory idempotently.
- Backup and reinstall files conditionally, so you can easily manage dotfiles across multiple systems.
- Copy files on installation and backup, as opposed to symlinking them.
- Backup package installations in a highly compressed manner.
- Not worry about accidentally doing something dangerous / destructive (is user-protective).
Website: github.com/alichtman/shallow-backup
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Developer: Aaron Lichtman
License: MIT License
shallow-backup is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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