Utility program to backup changes in my Obsidian vault automatically using a git repository

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README.md

Obsidian Git Backup

This script automates the process of backing up your Obsidian vault to a Git repository. It ensures that all changes are tracked automatically and can be easily restored if needed.

Features

Trigger backup after file changes with delay
Maintain git repo in a seperate folder to not have the repo synced by syncthing (copy changed files over)
Push changes to remote repository
Tray Menu
- Exit
- Backup now
- See current changed files
- See time after last file change
Easy configuration of paths and delay

Installation

Create target repo folder and initialize an empty git repository

Set up git lfs for attachments

$ git lfs install

.gitattributes

*.pdf filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
*.png filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
*.jpg filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
*.jpeg filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
*.webp filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
*.avif filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
*.svg filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text

Link repository to origin as remote