Manage local GitHub backups

This repository contains an approach for dealing with backing up GitHub (and other remotes) locally. It does not backup local work to remotes. This approach has been developed for my own use so use with care. Please let me know if you have any suggestions for improvements.

How it works

• Set up an archive folder (see example for pointers). This folder should contain a projects.sh file.

• projects.sh should contain an array of projects and base_url specifying where to pull from (currently this is shared across all projects).

• Modify the archives.sh file. This should contain all folders that need to be backed up (from remotes) and that have been setup as above. See example-archives.sh for a runnable example.

• (Optional) Run the following example bash command to check everything is work. Warning: This will clone 3 of my repos - you may want to adjust this.

bash update.sh example-archives.sh

• (Optional) Clean up the example.

mkdir tmp && cp example/projects.sh tmp/projects.sh
rm -r -f example && mv tmp example

• Run the following bash command (modifying to use your archives file). This will clone repositories listed in each projects.sh when they are not present and otherwise pull new updates.

bash update.sh archives.sh