I develop on a Macbook Pro and I want to get a Mac Mini to have as a backup machine. Ideally, whatever happens in certain directories on my laptop, and synced quickly to the Mac mini. Any suggestions?
I kind of have this setup, except the other way around (a desktop Mac mini, and a MBP15 as a travel/spare machine).<p>The solution for me, is to have a TB3 M2 enclosure with a 1TB SSD in it, and use that exclusively for work.<p>I use iCloud for keychain, mail, etc; I have my dot files (including SSH keys) synced via iCloud Drive, so that stuff is pretty much ready to use once the second machine is online.<p>If the mini goes tits up, I'd likely have to install some software updates on the MBP but otherwise it's a pretty seamless transfer.
One Thing - Jetbrains IDE or anything else where you can configure a ton of options.<p>Have a cron script to constantly export the preference file and sync to cloud or local NAS.