How to Effortlessly Backup Your Obsidian Vault with Git Plugin and Github

Automate the process with ease

Prakash Joshi Pax
4 min readApr 10, 2023

Obsidian is a popular choice for note-taking due to its flexibility and robustness. It is an essential tool for me at least to organize my thoughts and ideas.

The importance of digital notes is increasing. With this importance, it's even more critical than ever to back up our notes, especially with tools like obsidian.

GitHub is a reliable backup solution for many people due to its ease of use and reliability. However, manually backing up your vault with GitHub can be tedious and time-consuming.

Fortunately, the Obsidian Git plugin provides an easy solution to automate and simplify the backup process.

In this article, we’ll walk through the process of configuring the Obsidian Git plugin to back up your Obsidian vault using GitHub. By the end of this tutorial, you’ll have an automated workflow for backing up your obsidian vault.

Follow the steps below to ensure the safety of your notes.

Installing Community Plugin

First, you need to install Obsidian git from the community plugin store. Once you have enabled the plugin, you will see ‘Git is not ready’. That’s what we need to do…

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Prakash Joshi Pax
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