Most of my notes, documents, projects, work is saved on the computer. Shit happens - computer get stolen, broken. Here is my setup to make simple, automatic, secure, cheap backups.

Tools

Restic + resticprofile (most popular, my choice)
Borg
Kopia

List

What	Script	Period	Target
~/.ssh folder and other	resticprofile	Daily	Amazon S3
Home Assistant	HA	Daily	Amazon S3
Google Drive	??	Monthly	Amazon S3
iCloud	??	Monthly	Amazon S3
Obsidian	??	Monthly Real time Real time	Amazon S3 iCloud Github
Raycast	??	Monthly	Amazon S3

Restic

Setup restic, then setup resticprofile. Store env variables in some secure way.

Checklist

Choose folder to backup [completion:: 2025-06-29]
Make manual backup [completion:: 2025-06-29]
Add daily automatic backups [completion:: 2025-06-29]
Check if you can access the backup [completion:: 2025-06-29]
Check if they are running [completion:: 2025-07-26]

Run:

brew install restic
brew tap creativeprojects/tap
brew install resticprofile

restic snapshots
restic restore <restic_id> --target ~/Downloads
restic restore latest --target ~/Downloads

resticprofile --config restic-profiles.yaml --name 'default' backup
resticprofile --config restic-profiles.yaml --name 'default' schedule
resticprofile --config restic-profiles.yaml --name 'default' status
resticprofile --config restic-profiles.yaml --name 'default' backup
resticprofile --config restic-profiles.yaml --name 'default' check

Sample config:

version: "1"
default:
  repository: "..."
  initialize: true
  env:
    AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: "..."
    AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: "..."
    AWS_DEFAULT_REGION: "..."
    RESTIC_PASSWORD: "..."
    PATH: "/opt/homebrew/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin"
  backup:
    source:
      - "..."
    schedule: "*:56"
    schedule-permission: user
    schedule-after-network-online: true
    schedule-log: /Users/kamil/Backups/restic.log
  retention:
    after-backup: true
    keep-within: 14d
  prune:
    before-backup: false
    after-backup: true
    keep-daily: 1
    keep-hourly: 1
    keep-weekly: 1
    keep-monthly: 1
    keep-within: 3h
global:
    scheduler: crond
    restic-binary: /opt/homebrew/bin/restic

Rclone

rclone copy --progress --s3-storage-class=STANDARD GoogleDrive:rsync s3:krudnicki-gdrive/test2
rclone copy GoogleDrive:/ s3:krudnicki-gdrive/2024-05-18-2 --transfers=16 --checkers=16 --fast-list --drive-chunk-size=64M --progress --s3-use-accelerate-endpoint=true --ignore-checksum
rclone ls s3-...:...-db-backups