Electron-style container, menu bar icons, etc?

[benallfree]

This is a great project! What kinds of thoughts do you have about a more desktop-like experience?

I'm on OS X using Arq and I'm changing to this. The only thing I'm missing is some kind of status icon/notification to tell me if there is a problem.

Well, that, and a launch at startup type option.

[garethgeorge]

Hey, this is something I’ve definitely been thinking about re: packaging and want to experiment with when I have some bandwidth (or I’d be very open to taking as a contribution if anyone has experience in the space)

re: launch at startup, the install.sh script creates a launchd agent which should keep backrest running in the background as a startup task. You can take a look at that script and see if it does what you need.