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Backup Guide

It's likely that your projects are already backed up to GitHub or some similar hosting service. However, the code itself does not suffice for a complete backup. You might need to take a copy of environmental variables, SSH keys, settings, files and more.

The following guide is not meant to be exhaustive, but acts as a starting point for organizing the backup process. Note you will need to replace $volume with the actual name of your backup volume.

Backup application list

List the currently installed applications on your system and store them on a txt file.

ls -l /Applications/ > /$volume/applications.txt

SSH Keys

Backup SSH Keys
cp -r ~/.ssh /$volume/
Restore SSH Keys
cp -r /$volume/.ssh ~/

PGP Keys

Backup PGP Keys
gpg --armor --export > /$volume/pgp-public-keys.asc
gpg --armor --export-secret-keys > /$volume/pgp-secret-keys.asc
gpg --armor --export-ownertrust > /$volume/pgp-ownertrust.asc
Restore PGP Keys
gpg --import /$volume/pgp-public-keys.asc
gpg --import /$volume/pgp-private-keys.asc
gpg --import-ownertrust /$volume/pgp-ownertrust.asc

Environmental variables

Backup env variable files from workspace directory
cd $workspaceDir
find . -iname '*.env' -exec rsync -R "{}" /$volume/Workspace \;
Restore env variable files
rsync -avzh /$volume/Workspace $workspaceDir

Bash profile

Backup bash profile
cp ~/.bash_profile /$volume/
Restore bash profile
cp /$volume/.bash_profile ~/

npm settings

Backup npm settings
cp ~/.npmrc /$volume/
Restore npm settings
cp /$volume/.npmrc ~/

Git Config

Backup git config
cp ~/.gitconfig /$volume/
Restore git config
cp /$volume/.gitconfig ~/

KeePassXC

Backup KeePassXC database and key file

  • Backup the external key file (if any)

    cp ~/keepass.key /$volume/

  • Backup the kdbx database itself.

    cp ~/keepass.kdbx /$volume/
Restore KeePassXC database and key file

Simply restore the files to a directory of preference and locate them via the KeePassXC app.

Browser bookmarks

Use the browser interface to backup/restore your bookmarks.

Brew

Backup homebrew packages
brew bundle dump --file /$volume/homebrew-dump
Restore homebrew packages
brew bundle install --file /$volume/homebrew-dump