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Has anyone created a service that you auth in through GitHub and it backs up all your repos to S3 or Dropbox or something? I'd pay a few bucks for something lik

by paulgb 9y ago

Has anyone created a service that you auth in through GitHub and it backs up all your repos to S3 or Dropbox or something? I'd pay a few bucks for something like that. Edit: I found backhub.co. Unfortunately their pricing is per-repo and my usage model involves lots of tiny repos.

yaxu 9y ago
If you're writing research software you can backup to zenodo (i.e. CERN) for free.
rplnt 9y ago
Set multiple urls for one remote using `--push` https://git-scm.com/docs/git-remote#git-remote-emset-urlem https://git-scm.com/docs/git-remote#git-remote-emset-urlem and you are about done.
- synctext 9y ago
  This is only a partial solution, right? Services such as Backhub.co also backup your issues: https://backhub.co/features/backup-github-issues/ https://backhub.co/features/backup-github-issues/ (we have 1000+ closed issues in our project, nice to preserve)
  - rplnt 9y ago
    Right. The service is certainly expected to do more. Was mostly addressing the issue of mirroring the data to dropbox. But even then my "solution" only saves whatever you do locally. So if you merge PRs through github, it wouldn't get mirrored.
izacus 9y ago
If you have self-deployed Gogs (which is a smallish OSS GitHub clone) you can easily set it to mirror other repositories periodically. Very useful for backups. Also simple to self-deploy since it's essentially a single service written in Go.
- jhasse 9y ago
  Check out Gitea, which is a community managed fork of Gogs.
knownothing 9y ago
https://help.github.com/articles/backing-up-a-repository/ https://help.github.com/articles/backing-up-a-repository/
katastic 9y ago
>Has anyone created a service that you auth in through GitHub and it backs up all your repos to S3 or Dropbox or something? I'd pay a few bucks for something like that. So you'd pay money for a tool that copies your data, but not simply pay the money to access said data? This doesn't make any sense at all.

by paulgb 9y ago

yaxu 9y ago

If you're writing research software you can backup to zenodo (i.e. CERN) for free.

rplnt 9y ago

Set multiple urls for one remote using `--push` https://git-scm.com/docs/git-remote#git-remote-emset-urlem https://git-scm.com/docs/git-remote#git-remote-emset-urlem and you are about done.

synctext 9y ago
This is only a partial solution, right? Services such as Backhub.co also backup your issues: https://backhub.co/features/backup-github-issues/ https://backhub.co/features/backup-github-issues/ (we have 1000+ closed issues in our project, nice to preserve)
- rplnt 9y ago
  Right. The service is certainly expected to do more. Was mostly addressing the issue of mirroring the data to dropbox. But even then my "solution" only saves whatever you do locally. So if you merge PRs through github, it wouldn't get mirrored.

izacus 9y ago

If you have self-deployed Gogs (which is a smallish OSS GitHub clone) you can easily set it to mirror other repositories periodically. Very useful for backups. Also simple to self-deploy since it's essentially a single service written in Go.

jhasse 9y ago
Check out Gitea, which is a community managed fork of Gogs.

knownothing 9y ago

https://help.github.com/articles/backing-up-a-repository/ https://help.github.com/articles/backing-up-a-repository/

katastic 9y ago

>Has anyone created a service that you auth in through GitHub and it backs up all your repos to S3 or Dropbox or something? I'd pay a few bucks for something like that. So you'd pay money for a tool that copies your data, but not simply pay the money to access said data? This doesn't make any sense at all.