systemd Configuration

YRBA provides a systemd service & timers for automated frequent backups.

If YRBA is installed using the AUR it will automatically install the necessary files, otherwise it is possible to set those up yourself, but this is only recommended if you know what you’re doing.

The systemd files for setting this up by yourself can be found here, but for the sake of simplicity, this guide won’t cover on how to set these up with your systemd manually. GitHub systemd files

Enabling automatic backups using systemd

YRBA provides 3 timers that can be enabled with a single line for daily, weekly and monthly backups respectively.

To enable daily backups use:

systemctl enable --now yrba.daily.timer

To enable weekly backups use:

systemctl enable --now yrba.weekly.timer

To enable monthly backups use:

systemctl enable --now yrba.monthly.timer

To verify if they’ve been enabled correctly type:

systemctl status yrba.daily.timer # Replace `daily` with the corresponding activated timer

In case log messages for the application are desired, they can be viewed using:

journalctl -xefu yrba.service