Set up your first project

Download and install Tusk

Download Tusk from tuskbackup.com. Open the .dmg and drag Tusk to your Applications folder. Launch it from Applications — macOS may ask for permission to open a downloaded app the first time.

Start your free trial

Tusk starts a 14-day free trial automatically when you open it for the first time. No credit card, no account required. All features are available immediately.

Create a new project

Click New Project in the Tusk sidebar. Give your project a name — this is just a label for your own reference — then click the folder picker and select the folder you actively work in. This is the folder Tusk will watch: your footage folder, your Lightroom catalog folder, your project root, or any directory that contains the files you care about.

Add your backup destinations

Choose where your files should be backed up. You can add an external drive that is currently plugged in, a connected Google Drive account, or an S3-compatible bucket. Add as many destinations as you want — Tusk will sync to all of them simultaneously.

Done — Tusk handles the rest

Once your project is created, Tusk starts syncing immediately. Every file change in your folder — new files, edits, renames, moves — is automatically picked up and propagated to your backup destinations in the background. You can check the status of any file at any time in the file table. The status is updated in real time, per file, per destination.