ghe-backup

Encrypted Backups to S3 for GitHub Enterprise.

Features

• Supports making complete backups from GitHub Enterprise servers
• Supports arbitrary backup locations
• Supports encrypting backups with GPG
• Supports syncing backups to AWS S3

Getting Started

1. Setup SSH access on your GHE server
2. Create a PGP key to use for backups
3. (Optional) Configure an AWS S3 user and bucket
4. (Optional) Install and configure aws-cli
5. Configure ghe-backup variables

1. Github Enterprise SSH Access

Enable SSH access to the Github Enterprise server through the management console with a public key from your backup server. Restrict access to only your backup server with the from option in your SSH public key. OS X users may want to use Homebrew to install GnuPG.

2. GnuPG backup key

Create a new GPG key with gpg --gen-key and set a blank password. Store an offline backup of your key with gpg -ao keyname-private.key --export-secret-keys key_id.

3. Configure AWS S3

Create a new S3 bucket via the AWS management console and use an IAM policy to restrict its access. Optionally, configure lifecycle rules to automate backups to Glacier.

{
	"Statement": [
		{
			"Sid": "UNIQUE_ID",
			"Action": "s3:*",
			"Effect": "Allow",
			"Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::BUCKET_NAME/*"
		},
		{
			"Sid": "UNIQUE_ID",
			"Action": ["s3:ListAllMyBuckets"],
			"Effect": "Allow",
			"Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::*"
		},
		{
			"Sid": "UNIQUE_ID",
			"Action": "s3:*",
			"Effect": "Allow",
			"Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::BUCKET_NAME"
		}
	]
}

4. Setup aws-cli

Install the AWS Command Line Interface with pip install aws-cli. Create a configuration file in ~/.aws/config and set the aws_access_key, aws_secret_access_key, and region using the appropriate parameters from the previous step.

5. Configure the script

Set the appropriate SERVER, the BACKUPS_DIR you want to use, name or email of the PGP_RECIPIENT, enable or disable S3_BACKUP and the S3_BUCKET you want to use. Run ghe-backup without arguments to begin the backup. Add it to cron to run as often as you want.

More info

See the GitHub Enterprise documentation for more info about backing up and restoring your installation.