GitHub Backups

This script will find all repositories that a user has access to and clone them onto the local machine.

Usage

git clone git://github.com/ennova/github_backup
cd github_backup
env GITHUB_USERNAME=foo GITHUB_PASSWORD=secret ruby backup.rb
# or for an organization
env GITHUB_USERNAME=foo GITHUB_PASSWORD=secret GITHUB_ORGANIZATION=bar ruby backup.rb
# using the path and backup path options (for example to clone into bananjour)
env GITHUB_USERNAME=foo GITHUB_PASSWORD=secret GITHUB_REPOSITORY_TYPE=public GITHUB_BACKUP_PATH=$HOME/.bananajour/repositories ruby backup.rb

Environment Variables

• GITHUB_USERNAME and GITHUB_PASSWORD

  GitHub username and password for authentication.

• GITHUB_ORGANIZATION

  Organization name (optional).

• GITHUB_REPOSITORY_TYPE

  Type of repositories. Defaults to all. (Acceptable values: all, private, public, and member.)

• GITHUB_BACKUP_PATH

  Directory to store the repositories. Default repositories.

Scheduling With Cron

Create a file in the same directory as backup.rb with the following (replace or remove the variables as needed):

backup_cron.sh

export PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/sbin
cd "$(dirname "$0")"
# this sets up RVM is you're using it
[[ -s ~/.rvm/scripts/rvm ]] && source ~/.rvm/scripts/rvm
source .rvmrc

export GITHUB_USERNAME='username'
export GITHUB_PASSWORD='password'
export GITHUB_ORGANIZATION='organization' # optional
export GIT_SSH="$(pwd)/ssh_build"         # ssh key for github authorization
exec ruby backup.rb

Use this script tell git what ssh key to use.

ssh_build

#!/bin/bash -e
exec ssh -i "$(dirname "$0")/id_rsa" "$@" # path to your ssh key

Next type crontab -e into terminal and copy in the following line:

05 * * * * ~/Documents/github_backup/backup_cron.sh > ~/Documents/github_backup/backup_cron.log 2>&1

This will start the backup script on the 5th minute of every hour. If you have any problems take a look at the log file in the github_backup folder.