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 backups.

List of things to backup

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

Instruction for Restic

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

version: "1"
default:
  backup:
    source:
      - "..."
    schedule: daily
    schedule-priority: background
    schedule-lock-wait: 2h
    schedule-log: /Users/kamil/Documents/Apps/restic/profile-backup.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

Run:

cd ~/Documents/Apps/restic

restic snapshots
resticprofile backup
resticprofile schedule

launchctl setenv "ENV_VAR" "12345"
echo setenv ENV_VAR2 abc | launchctl

launchctl getenv PATH

chmod 777 profiles.yaml

Alternative using 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