dotbak

Manage and backup dotfiles with ease!

Dotfile Management

Dotfiles are symlinked and stored in $HOME/.dotbak/dotfiles. This directory is created automatically when dotbak init is run for the first time. dotbak manages a git reposiotry in this directory, and all dotfiles are stored in this repository. This repository is automatically pushed to the remote repository specified in the configuration file.

Configuration

Configuration for dotbak is stored in XDG_HOME_DIR/.dotbak/config.toml or $HOME/.dotbak/config.toml. This file is created automatically when dotbak init is run for the first time.

files

These tell the dotbak your settings about how you want to manage files. Currently, there's only files.include, which is a list of all files and folders that you want to manage. For example, if you want to manage your .dotbak/config.toml file, you would set files.include to [".dotbak/config.toml"]. This tells dotbak to manage the file at $HOME/.dotbak/config.toml. Note that the path is relative to $HOME.

toml [files] include = [".dotbak/config.toml"]

Note that this dotbak configuration can also work with plain folders, such as .config or .local. For example, to backup the .config folder, you would set files.include to [".config"].