Time Machine

Scheduled restic backups with a bar icon and a restore browser

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94bc1ce / 2026-09-064 things you can do1 change to know before upgrading Follow (Atom feed)

Back up your home folder every night to a drive, NAS or cloud bucket with restic, see in the Omarchy bar when it last worked, and restore files from any day.

The Time Machine panel open from the bar, showing destinations and when each was last backed up.

The restore browser listing folders inside a backup from a chosen day.

The Time Machine panel while a backup is running.

What you can do with it

Back up your home folder, or several folders, on a schedule to an external drive, a NAS over SFTP or cloud storage.

Good to know

Needs restic; any repository restic or rclone can reach. A missing source folder stops the backup.

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See when your files were last backed up from one bar icon that turns red when a backup fails.

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Browse backups by day and restore a single file or a folder into ~/Restored.

Good to know

Restores never overwrite current files; you move them into place yourself.

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Keep backups encrypted with a stored password, and save that password to 1Password.

Good to know

The password is stored inside the home folder being backed up; without a copy elsewhere the backups cannot be opened after losing the machine.

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Before you upgrade

Newest first

94bc1ce2026-09-06

Run omarchy-time-machine install once after updating: older timers switched themselves off when a running backup was stopped, and stay off until rewritten.

Action requiredAffects: Installs from before the timer fix in commit 9f4f00e

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Release history 1

94bc1ce2026-09-06
First release

Back up your home folder every night and see in the bar when the last backup worked.

Details

An Omarchy bar widget (jankeesvw.time-machine) over restic: destinations in a JSON config with a systemd schedule each, a panel with the last good and last failed backup, a restore browser, and a command line at ~/.config/omarchy/plugins/jankeesvw.time-machine/bin/omarchy-time-machine (key set, init, install, backup, log, check, destinations).

Also: pre_command to wake a drive or NAS first; on_failure_command; 24-hour or AM/PM time in the bar.

No tagged releases; install with omarchy plugin add https://github.com/jankeesvw/omarchy-time-machine. Needs restic (sudo pacman -S restic).

Added: Back up your home folder, or several folders, on a…Added: See when your files were last backed up from one ba…Added: Browse backups by day and restore a single file or…Added: Keep backups encrypted with a stored password, and…Action required: Back up your home folder, or several folders, on a…

Seeded by @iluxav with Claude Code (canido)

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