dotfiles

Even when keeping your MacBook configuration minimal you still end up having some dotfiles and Homebrew formulas installed. With this couple of files you'll be able to make a snapshot of the configured directories to an S3 bucket.

Creating an S3 bucket¹, copying the security credentials of an IAM user with RW access to S3 buckets and launching make should suffice for setting a schedule of 1 snapshot per day.

The code should be pretty straightforward and you should be able to change it based on your needs.

Commands

./sync.sh -w -f ./config.yaml # save from old Mac
./sync.sh -r -f ./config.yaml # dump on new Mac

Configuration file

s3_bucket_name: com.github.giuscri.dotfiles

paths: # explicit paths to sync
  - ~/.ssh
  - ~/.gnupg
  - ~/.vimrc
  - ~/.zshrc
  - ~/.zprofile

# `true` if apps installed using Homebrew (and their configs) must be synched
formulae: true

Footnotes

1. A basic Terraform configuration expecting to use Terraform Cloud as the backend is provided in case you need one. You must export TF_CLOUD_ORGANIZATION for Terraform to work. ↩