Remember: if it's not on a drive that is in your physical possession, it's not really yours.
— Jamie Zawinski in PSA: Back Up Your Shit.
The cbk package provides the cbk-pull
program for downloading personnal data
from various hosted service providers onto the local machine. It is currently
capable of backing up data from the fellowing sources:
- Address book (vCard) from Fastmail.com's CardDAV server
- Email (Maildir) from Fastmail's IMAP server
- git repositories hosted on GitHub
- Bookmarks saved on Pinboard.com
- Audio tracks liked on SoundCloud.com
To get started, read the installation instructions then checkout the man page for more details.