A simple script to backup the most important informations (repositories, wikis, pull requests+comments, issues+comments, teams and members) of your GitHub organization in a readable and usable format.
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├── members
│ ├── members-2014-04-29.tar.bz2
│ │ ├── member1.json
│ │ └── member2.json
│ └── members-2014-04-30.tar.bz2
│ ├── member1.json
│ ├── member2.json
│ └── member3.json
├── private-repos
│ └── ...
├── public-repos
│ └── repo1-id-2014-04-30.tar.bz2
│ ├── repo1
│ ├── repo1-collaborators.json
│ ├── repo1-issues-comments.json
│ ├── repo1-issues.json
│ ├── repo1.json
│ ├── repo1-pulls-comments.json
│ ├── repo1-pulls.json
│ └── repo1.wiki
└── teams
├── teams-2014-04-29.tar.bz2
│ ├── team1.json
│ └── team2.json
└── teams-2014-04-30.tar.bz2
├── team1.json
├── team2.json
└── team3.json
Directories public-repos/repo1-id-2014-04-30.tar.bz2/repo1 and public-repos/repo1-id-2014-04-30.tar.bz2/repo1.wiki are simply the source of Git repositories (see clone --mirror for more information)
Create a simple configuration file (e.g. github-backup.conf) with the following infos:
[github-backup]
username: XXX
password: XXX
organization: camptocamp
destdir: /your/backup/folder
retention: X # how many archives to keep, an integer
And run the script like this:
$ ./github-backup.py -c github-backup.conf