My GitHub backups

This is a script which simply runs and regularly backs up my GitHub repositories because I prefer to have local copies of my things on my server.

What does it back up?

• Repositories
• Repository wikis
• Gists

How to configure.

Configure gitlab-mirrors to replicate where you want. I have it configured so that it mirrors repositories local only with no_remote_set=true.

cp config.yml.SAMPLE config.yml

And that's it.

Please note, cron.sh has a hard coded path because I'm lazy. It's meant for cron jobs but feel free to copy/modify it for your own cron jobs.

How does it compare to gitlab-mirrors

gitlab-mirrors does all of the hard work of the actual mirroring. This project merely talks to the GitHub API and then passes arguments to gitlab-mirrors.

For this to be effective you need two cron jobs. One for gitlab-mirrors and one for this project.