Last updated on October 9, 2016 As one of the most popular package manager on OS X, Homebrew is indeed a very nice tool to manage packages. However, when you want to back up your packages, or migrate the packages onto another machine, Homebrew didn’t invent such a tool. If you are moving to an OS X of the same version, you can simply copy the Homebrew directory (default is /usr/local) to your new