Personal Dotfiles & App Config

Mackup to the Rescue

Rather than setting up complicated/custom scripts, I've found Mackup that saves known application configs and backs them up to a directory.

The default save location is to Dropbox, but it can be customized to save to a custom location. The custom files that you create are also saved to the backup.

Main Folder:

~/Dotfiles/

Location of the backup files:

~/Dotfiles/Mackup/

Github repo of the backup files:

https://github.com/kennyklee/dotfiles

Instructions

If new computer, follow these instructions

Clone https://github.com/kennyklee/dotfiles into the home directory.

# Install Mackup
brew install mackup

# Launch it and restore my files
mackup restore

Backup Instructions

# Install Mackup
brew install mackup

# Configure to the right file location
# https://github.com/lra/mackup/tree/master/doc#file-system
# May have to create the files below manually.

~/.mackup.cfg # custom file
~/.mackup/ # application / directory support


# Launch it and backup my files
mackup backup

After ANY changes above:

Don't forget to git push in the the 'Dotfiles' folder!!!

History of my Dotfiles

There has been number of ideas for managing 'dotfiles' that I've explored in the past.