Backhome

This CLI tool serves two purposes for me: learning Golang and acting as a simple backup tool for my configuration files (mostly dotfiles).

It copies the selected files to a local folder and then pushes it to a Github repository.

When executed for the first time it creates a local repository (defaults to $HOME/backhome) with a backhome.yaml in it.

Setting --local initialize the local repository in another folder.

To initilize backhome

backhome init

To add a file to config file

backhome add path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...

To copy files in config file to local

backhome copy

Github remotes are still to be implemented

Features to add:

• push / sync command (commit changes and push to remote)
• restore (copy files from local to their origin)
• remove files from configuration file
• run copy and sync/push periodically
• Alerts using native (macos) notification
• Support to multiple environments (work and home)
• Better error handling (use typed error to decide how to print message)
• Interactive init procedure (check if local and config file exist and ask if user wants to create before doing so)
• Add code coverage report