Git Backups

A collection of scripts to locally backup git repositories. The idea is that you can simply clone repositories into your backup folder, either manually or using one of the scripts, and then use the git-backup-update to update the repositories regularly.

Requirements

• git
• Python3 requests module

Preparations

useradd git-backup --home-dir /opt/git-backup
mkdir -p /opt/git-backup/repos
cd /opt/git-backup
git clone https://github.com/NavidSassan/git-backup.git
chown -R git-backup:git-backup /opt/git-backup

Manually cloning a repo

sudo -u git-backup -i
# create the path, usually username/repo_name
mkdir -p /opt/git-backup/repos/NavidSassan/git-backup
cd /opt/git-backup/repos/NavidSassan/git-backup

# make sure that the folder ends with `.git`, so that it is automatically updated by `git-backup-update`
git clone --mirror https://github.com/NavidSassan/git-backup git-backup.git

Manually cloning all repos from an GitHub organisation

ORG=neovim
mkdir -p "$ORG"
cd "$ORG"
wget -qO- "https://api.github.com/orgs/$ORG/repos" | jq ".[].ssh_url" | sed 's#:#/#; s#git@#https://#'| xargs -L 1 git clone --mirror

git-backup-update Systemd Service and Timer

The git-backup-update.service searches for .git folders in the base directory /opt/root/git-backup/ and pulls the latest updates from the configured remote.

Installation:

cp etc/systemd/system/git-backup-update.service /etc/systemd/system/git-backup-update.service
cp etc/systemd/system/git-backup-update.timer /etc/systemd/system/git-backup-update.timer
systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl enable --now git-backup-update.timer

github-star-downloader.py

This script automatically downloads all the starred GitHub repositories for the given username. Optionally, install the systemd service and timer to do this regularly.

Usage:

./github-star-downloader.py --help

Systemd service and timer:

cp etc/systemd/system/github-star-downloader@.service /etc/systemd/system/github-star-downloader@.service
cp etc/systemd/system/github-star-downloader@.timer /etc/systemd/system/github-star-downloader@.timer

$EDITOR /etc/systemd/system/github-star-downloader@.service
systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl enable --now github-star-downloader@NavidSassan.timer