Github Backups

[silentbrown]

Any recommendations for a service/app that handles this easily? ~30 repos.

Backup could be download to local system or to cloud storage.

[wheelerc]

Just the git repositories? Cron job with 'git pull' in it?

Or do you want all the related issues/wikis etc backed up?

[silentbrown]

wheelerc said:

Just the git repositories? Cron job with 'git pull' in it?

Or do you want all the related issues/wikis etc backed up?

That could work. Needs to be kept up to date with list of repos and error reporting will be a bit crude, though.

[ribpx]

Quite like the idea of a simple shell script / cron job.

You could use the API to get a list of repositories, then just pipe that into a sequential git clone.

ChatGPT suggested this (not tested).

#!/bin/bash

# Your GitHub username and personal access token
GITHUB_USERNAME="your_username"
GITHUB_TOKEN="your_personal_access_token"

# Output directory where repositories will be cloned
OUTPUT_DIR="path_to_output_directory"

# GitHub API endpoint to fetch repository list
API_URL="https://api.github.com/user/repos"

# Send API request to retrieve repository list
REPOS=$(curl -s -u "$GITHUB_USERNAME:$GITHUB_TOKEN" "$API_URL")

# Clone each repository
for repo in $(echo "$REPOS" | jq -r '.[].ssh_url'); do
    git clone "$repo" "$OUTPUT_DIR/$(basename "$repo" .git)"
done