{"id":706,"date":"2018-08-01T06:00:55","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T06:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buklijas.info\/blog\/?p=706"},"modified":"2018-08-15T10:35:03","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T10:35:03","slug":"how-to-backup-personal-github-repositories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/buklijas.info\/blog\/2018\/08\/01\/how-to-backup-personal-github-repositories\/","title":{"rendered":"How to backup personal GitHub repositories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Published on:<\/strong> 01.08.2018<\/p>\n<p>I will show how to do a backup of <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/sasa-buklijas?tab=repositories\">your GitHub repositories<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/josegonzalez\/python-github-backup\">python-github-backup<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Why to bother with a backup of GitHub<\/h2>\n<p>I can already see that there will be comments regarding why to do the backup of GitHub.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;It is a waste of time.&#8221;   <\/li>\n<li>&#8220;GitHub internally already have backups.&#8221; (I hope so)  <\/li>\n<li>&#8220;They will not lose your code&#8221; (But maybe I will)  <\/li>\n<li>&#8220;They will not go overnight out of business.&#8221;  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Response to all those comments is:<br \/>\n<strong>You will not be worst off if you have your own backup.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If forever reason (GitHub go under, all repositories deleted by accident,  alien attack) GitHub is not available anymore, I have my own backup of code that I have written.<\/p>\n<h2>Paid solution<\/h2>\n<p>If you are looking for a paid solution, <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/marketplace\/backhub\">BackHub<\/a> looks like a good solution.<br \/>\nI have no experience with BackHub, nor am I in any way associated with it.<\/p>\n<h2>Free solution<\/h2>\n<p>After researching <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/camptocamp\/github-backup\">all<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/bazaar-projects\/github-backup\">available<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/kanishkegb\/github-backup-all\">options<\/a> I have decided to go with <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/josegonzalez\/python-github-backup\">python-github-backup<\/a> because it had more stars and contributors on GitHub than other projects.<\/p>\n<p>I have used the number of stars and contributors on GitHub as the assumption that <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/josegonzalez\/python-github-backup\">python-github-backup<\/a> is more in use than other solutions so there are more people who will continue to support it in future.<\/p>\n<p>In order to access your GitHub personal data, you need to have a <a href=\"https:\/\/help.github.com\/articles\/creating-a-personal-access-token-for-the-command-line\/#creating-a-token\">personal access token<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After that, you can install it with <code>pip\/pipenv<\/code>:<br \/>\n(I have installed it in separate virtualenv)<\/p>\n<p><code>pipenv install github-backup<\/code><br \/>\nor<br \/>\n<code>pip install github-backup<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Run it with:<br \/>\n<code>\/full\/path\/github_backup\/venv\/bin\/github-backup sasa-buklijas -t your_personal_access_token -o \/full\/path\/github_backup --all<\/code><\/p>\n<p>This command will backup all your GitHub information to <code>\/full\/path\/github_backup directory<\/code>.<\/p>\n<p>It would be tiresome to run this command every day, so I have automated it on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webfaction.com\/?aid=6600\">my online hosting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Crontab<\/h3>\n<p>My usecase:<br \/>\n<code>15 00 * * * \/full\/path\/github_backup\/venv\/bin\/github-backup sasa-buklijas -t your_personal_access_token -o \/full\/path\/github_backup --all &gt; \/full\/path\/github_backup\/last_log.txt<\/code><\/p>\n<p><code>&gt; \/full\/path\/github_backup\/last_log.txt<\/code>  is used to have an output of the last backup command.<br \/>\n<code>&gt;&gt;<\/code> can be used to have outputs of all backup commands, but I have found that having just last one is enough.<\/p>\n<h2>Conclusion<\/h2>\n<p><strong>&#8220;You will not be worse off if you have your own backup.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Do you have backups of your own personal GitHub repositories, if you have, what do you use for backup?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published on: 01.08.2018 I will show how to do a backup of your GitHub repositories with python-github-backup Why to bother with a backup of GitHub I can already see that there will be comments regarding why to do the backup of GitHub. &#8220;It is a waste of time.&#8221; &#8220;GitHub internally already have backups.&#8221; (I hope [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"How to backup personal GitHub repositories #python-github-backup #GitHub #backup #python","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[27],"tags":[44,43,4],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.2.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How to backup personal GitHub repositories - Sasa Buklijas<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/buklijas.info\/blog\/2018\/08\/01\/how-to-backup-personal-github-repositories\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How to backup personal GitHub repositories - Sasa Buklijas\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Published on: 01.08.2018 I will show how to do a backup of your GitHub repositories with python-github-backup Why to bother with a backup of GitHub I can already see that there will be comments regarding why to do the backup of GitHub. &#8220;It is a waste of time.&#8221; 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