Github backup

Here is a script to create local snapshots for Github repos. It's always nice to have one for good measure.

It requires github-backup to be installed:

brew install github-backup

#!/usr/bin/env bash

set -e -x

# Github repos will be cloned in subdirectories here
GITHUB_BACKUP_PATH=~/github-backup

# Archived repo snapshots will live here
ARCHIVE_PATH=~/Yandex.Disk.localized/

CURRENT_DATE=$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S)

function backup() {
  echo "---> $1/$2"

  github-backup \
    --incremental \
    --repository $2 \
    --repositories \
    --token $GITHUB_BACKUP_TOKEN \
    --output-directory $GITHUB_BACKUP_PATH/$1/$2 \
    --starred \
    --followers \
    --following \
    --issues \
    --issue-comments \
    --pulls \
    --pull-comments \
    --pull-commits \
    --pull-details \
    --labels \
    --wikis \
    --gists \
    --private \
    --fork \
    --releases \
    $1

  ARCHIVE_FILE=$ARCHIVE_PATH/$CURRENT_DATE/$CURRENT_DATE-$1-$2.tar.gz
  mkdir -p $ARCHIVE_PATH/$CURRENT_DATE
  tar --verbose -cz -f $ARCHIVE_FILE $GITHUB_BACKUP_PATH/$1/$2
}

# Usage: backup <username-or-organization> <repo-name>

backup dreikanter notes
# Add more repos here

Upload backup files to the cloud with rclone:

rclone sync --verbose=3 --interactive $ARCHIVE_PATH remote:github-backup