MacOS

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launchctl

For daily user backups using launchctl timers, i.e. for the home@nas preset, put the following in ~/Library/LaunchAgents/local.crestic.home@nas.plist

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>Daily crestic home@nas backup</key>
    <string>local.crestic.home@nas</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>crestic</string>
        <string>home@nas</string>
        <string>backup</string>
    </array>
    <key>StartInterval</key>
    <integer>86400</integer>
</dict>
</plist>

then activate the timer using

launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/local.crestic.home@nas.plist

For system backups, put this file in /Library/LaunchAgents and the config in /etc/crestic/config.cfg