Hi!
I recently worked on setting up backups for my macOS environment using duplicacy. While researching, I saw different suggestions about launchd plist configs and ways to implement monitoring.
I decided to compile my research into a python codebase that would allow anyone on a macOS environment to configure duplicacy to run as a launchd daemon on a schedule. The scripts use only stdlib and should be runnable without any external dependencies, except for duplicacy. Here is the GitHub link:
The solution I went with was:
- You call
sudo ./install.py --repository-path /path/to/repository, which generates the plist, lays out dependencies, and loads the daemon into launchd - A simple python script validates the environment and launches a duplicacy backup
- After the backup, the script reports to healthchecks.io if the ping url was specified
I decided to put a script on top of duplicacy instead of relying on duplicacy pre/post scripts to have more control and extendibility for the future.
Anyways I hope this solution or parts of the implementation could help someone in the future. Let me know what you think!