Lockbook is a blazingly fast note taking application written in rust. We can store compressed and encrypted text files in lockbook’s cloud on the free tier. Lockbook’s CLI supports automatic file syncronization similar to Google Drive.
In this post, I’ll show how I back up my nvchad custom config (docs). This symlink strategy can be used to backup any configs or other text data automatically.
lockbook
CLIFirst install lockbook
version >= 0.9.0
brew tap lockbook/lockbook && brew install lockbook
lockbook
account -- account management commands
completions -- generate completions for a given shell
copy -- import files from your file system into lockbook
debug -- investigative commands
delete -- delete a file
edit -- edit a document
export -- export a lockbook file to your file system
fs -- use your lockbook files with your local filesystem by mounting an NFS drive to /tmp/lockbook
list -- list files and file information
move -- move a file to a new parent
new -- create a new file at the given path or do nothing if it exists
rename -- rename a file
share -- sharing related commands
sync -- sync your local changes back to lockbook servers
lockbook fs
commandAutomatically syncs your entire lockbook with a localhost NFS drive in /tmp/lockbook
lockbook fs
Please note, this guide will replace your existing directory with a symlink. It’s highly recommended to backup the existing directory before proceeding to avoid losing configurations.
cp -r ~/.config/nvim/lua/custom ~/.config/nvim/lua/custom_backup
/tmp/lockbook
mkdir /tmp/lockbook/dotfiles
cp -r ~/.config/nvim/lua/custom/ /tmp/lockbook/dotfiles/nvchad-config
ln -s /tmp/lockbook/dotfiles/nvchad-config ~/.config/nvim/lua/custom
ls -l ~/.config/nvim/lua
Look for the custom
entry in the output. It should indicate that it is a symlink (l
at the beginning of the permissions string) and point to your target directory /tmp/lockbook/dotfiles/nvchad-config
.