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Backup

Back up your setup and restore it on another Mac

Export your proxies, configurations, and rules to one file, and bring them back after a reinstall or on a new Mac.

Reinstalling, moving to a new machine, or wanting a way back before a large change are all the same file. Export once, import on the other end.

01

Export

Open Settings → General → Configuration Backup, click Export…, and choose where to save the file.

A backup holds your proxies (including server addresses and user names), configurations, rules, and app preferences. Proxy passwords are not in it: they stay in this Mac Keychain and are never written to the file.

02

Restore on another Mac

There are two ways in. On a fresh install, pick Restore from Backup at the second step of the setup. If Antify is already in use, go to Settings → General → Configuration Backup and click Import…. Both read the same file.

During the import, Antify asks for each proxy password this Mac does not already have. You can continue without them and fill them in later on the Proxies page.

03

After the import

  • A running system extension is brought up to date. If that does not go through, it keeps the previous configuration until you restart the proxy.
  • Both export and import are recorded on the Activity page.
  • If any proxy is still missing a password, the import result says how many.