Homebrew automatic backup
Homebrew scheduled backup
Most of my software is installed through Homebrew, so I’ve created this setup to back it up automatically:
Built using:
- Bash scripts
- PList
Backup script
#!/bin/bash
BACKUP_DIR="/Users/marco/google-drive/KnowledgeBase/OSX/brew"
DATE=$(date +%Y-%m-%d)
mkdir -p "$BACKUP_DIR"
brew bundle dump --file="$BACKUP_DIR/Brewfile-$DATE" --force
brew list > "$BACKUP_DIR/brew-list-$DATE.txt"
brew list --cask > "$BACKUP_DIR/brew-cask-list-$DATE.txt"
echo "Backup saved to $BACKUP_DIR"PList
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Label</key>
<string>ca.pelegrini.brewbackup</string>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>/bin/bash</string>
<string>/Users/marco/google-drive/KnowledgeBase/OSX/bin/brew-backip.sh</string>
</array>
<key>StartCalendarInterval</key>
<dict>
<key>Hour</key>
<integer>10</integer>
<key>Minute</key>
<integer>0</integer>
</dict>
</dict>
</plist>Load it
launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/ca.pelegrini.brewbackup.plist