cloud-backup-go

Regular back-ups to the cloud

Install

You can get cloud-backup from the releases section of this GitHub repository. There you will find downloads for your CPU architecture. You can then choose to move the program to a folder contained on your $PATH.

Run

Execute the program on your terminal.

$ cloud-backup

There is help built into the CLI.

You may need to allow cloud-backup to execute on your Mac when you first run it. Navigate to Security & Privacy in System Preferences to allow execution. Also, depending on what files and folders you want to backup, you may need to give cloud-backup access to certain files and folders under the Privacy tab.

Features

Backup

$ cloud-backup backup --help

Initiates a backup based on the supplied configuration file.

Restore

$ cloud-backup restore --help

Restores a previously backed-up file to a specified restore location.

List

$ cloud-backup list --help

List timestamps or backups at the specified timestamp.

Install and Uninstall

$ sudo cloud-backup install --help

Creates a launchd daemon to execute a backup on a specified cadence. Notice the sudo. It is required because this command creates a daemon which runs system wide and not just for a specific user. This means cloud-backup runs as root when executed through this manner.

$ sudo cloud-backup uninstall --help

Uninstalls the launchd daemon. Notice the sudo. Uninstalling a system wide daemon requires it.

Configuration File Format

There are times that you need to pass in a path to a configuration file. That file format is in YAML in the following schema.

awsCredentialConfigPath: #the full path to folder holding your shared credentials and config files; optional; if unspecified, uses the executing user's ~/.aws/ folder
aws_profile: #a profile specified in shared credentials and config files
kms_key: #a KMS key ARN
encryption_context: #a special value built into the encrypted file that, upon decryption, is verified
s3_bucket: #an S3 bucket name where the files are backed-up to
backup:
  - title: #a title to give this specific back-up file
    path: #the path to back-up
    ignore: #ignore list; optional; defaults to an empty list
      - #a string to do a simple match on which marks it for exclusion from the back-up