Fork of the Ira/Mackup application written entirely in bash.

OSX Sonoma changed how sandboxing works, so most applications can no longer follow symlinks 😢

mackup2 is a bash script that is largely compatible with the extensive library of mackup .cfg files

The magic behind mackup was creating symlinks between ~/Libarary/Application Support/foo directory and icloud/Dropbox/Google Drive.

mackup2 replicates this behavior by syncing folder/files to iCloud/Dropbox/Google Drive instead of symlinking. mackup2 should be completely invisble to sandboxed applications.

⚠️ This code is beta, proceede with caution!

Before using mackup2, you must competely remove all symlinks that mackup created. If you still have mackup installed, the simplest solution is to run the following:

mackup uninstall

Since mackup2 is written in bash, it requires 2 libraries. They can easily be installed with homebrew

brew install unison
brew install autozimu/homebrew-formulas/unison-fsmonitor

1. Manually copy the application config files you wish to sync to ~/.mackup2/

   e.g.

   mkdir ~/.mackup2
   cp ~/.mackup/git.cfg ~/.mackup2/git.cfg
   ```
   

2. Install mackup2

   make install

3. Start mackup2

   /usr/local/bin/mackup2-watchdog

4. Report back your success/failures

If you have an application that works, please open a pull request to add it to mackup2/applications

Logs are stored in ~/Library/Logs/mackup2

This script is designed to be as compatible with mackup config files as possible. For the most part you can migrate ~/.mackup/* to ~/.mackup2/.

For every file listed under [configuration_files], mackup2 will create a syncronization job for each file and folder using unison

1. It reads ~/.mackup/*.cfg files
2. For each config file, read the app name and [configuration_files] section
3. For each file under [configuration_files] this script starts a new unison -watch process

👀 Here is a simple example to emulate what mackup2 is doing under the hood

Create 2 directories:

mkdir /tmp/foo
mkdir /tmp/bar

Manually start unison to watch the 2 directories

unison -auto -batch -repeat watch /tmp/foo /tmp/bar

Unison creates a 2 way syncronization between the folders. Any file added to one, will be instantly copied to the other

touch /tmp/foo/file1.txt
ls /tmp/bar # <- observe that file1.txt has been magically copied to /tmp/bar

cleanup

pkill unison
rm -r /tmp/foo
rm -r /tmp/bar

The main magic of mackup2 is this line of code

nohup unison -auto -batch -repeat watch -terse -prefer "$destination_path" "$source_path" "$destination_path" | tee -a "$HOME/Library/Logs/mackup2/$app_name.log" &

Note the flat -prefer "$destination_path". This means that if a conflict happens between icloud and local, unision will prefer the icloud version. This will ensure that a new computer won't clobber the configs of exiting devices.

Because the syncing process requires a daemon to be constantly running, you must restart mackup2 on all machines when modifying a config file.

Eventually mackup2 will be 100% compatible with mackup. See current compatiblity chart below.

🚧 Features are still in progress. 🚧

Currently supported features: ()

• ✅ OSX
• ❌ Linux

• ✅ iCloud
• ❌ Dropbox
• ❌ Google Drive
• ❌ File

• ✅ [application]
• ✅ [configuration_files]
• ❌ path
• ❌ directory
• ❌ storage
• ❌ [applications_to_sync]
• ❌ [applications_to_ignore]
• ❌ [xdg_configuration_files]

• ⚠️ Assumes all files are relative to ~/.
• ❌ Prompt user before overwriting files
• ❌ Automated restarting of daemon

Pull Requests Welcome!

A file/folder isn't synchronizing

Look for a hidden .unison..foobar.tmp file in the same directory as the source file, then delete it.