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Erik Westrup
2022-02-14 15:47:49 +01:00
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and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
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- [README.md](README.md) is restructured with easier TL;DR for each OS and a more general detailed section for the interested.
## [7.1.0] - 2022-02-13
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$ launchctl kickstart -p gui/$UID/com.github.erikw.restic-automatic-backup-scheduler
```
As a convenience, a shortcut for the above commands are `$ make activate-launchagent`.
1. Watch the first backup progress from the log file
1. Watch the first backup progress from the log files:
```console
$ tail -f ~/Library/Logs/restic/restic_*
```
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(skip `-f` to see all backups that has run)
## Optional Features
### Recommended: Automated Backup Checks
#### Recommended: Automated Backup Checks
Once in a while it can be good to do a health check of the remote repository, to make sure it's not getting corrupt. This can be done with `$ restic check`.
There is companion scripts, service and timer (`*check*`) to restic-backup.sh that checks the restic backup for errors; look in the repo in `usr/lib/systemd/system/` and `bin/` and copy what you need over to their corresponding locations.
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$ sudo systemctl enable --now restic-check@default.timer
````
## Optional Features
### Optional: Email Notification on Failure
We want to be aware when the automatic backup fails, so we can fix it. Since my laptop does not run a mail server, I went for a solution to set up my laptop to be able to send emails with [postfix via my Gmail](https://easyengine.io/tutorials/linux/ubuntu-postfix-gmail-smtp/). Follow the instructions over there.