diff --git a/github-backup.pl b/github-backup.pl
index 567035c..4cffd0d 100755
--- a/github-backup.pl
+++ b/github-backup.pl
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ die "Could not complete github API query for $username\n" unless defined $page;
 
 my @list = split(/\n/, $page);
 my @urls = grep { /url/ } @list;
-my @giturls = grep s/  :url: http/git/, @urls;
+my @giturls = grep s/  :url: https/git/, @urls;
 @urls = @giturls;
 my @reponames = grep s/.*$username\///, @giturls;
 
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ for(my $i = 0; $i < @urls; ++$i){
 	}
 	unless(-e "$backupdir/$name"){ #We haven't backed this up before, let's clone it
 		print "CLONING REPOSITORY: $url\n";
-		system("cd backups && git clone $url") and die "Encountered an error while git-cloning repository $name\n";
+		system("cd $backupdir && git clone $url") and die "Encountered an error while git-cloning repository $name\n";
 	}
 	else{ #We've backed it up before, just fetch the most recent copy
 		print "REPOSITORY EXISTED, FETCHING: $name\n";