Backup all the repositories of a github user or organization automatically

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Chris Lockfort 3e05e1680b whoops, had an old hardcoded directory. Guess I should dogfood more often.		2010-08-01 17:09:00 -07:00
github-backup.pl	whoops, had an old hardcoded directory. Guess I should dogfood more often.	2010-08-01 17:09:00 -07:00
README.markdown	minor changes to error handling	2010-07-13 14:33:45 -04:00

GitHub-Backup

By Chris Lockfort (devnull@csh.rit.edu) (Github username: Clockfort)

GitHub-Backup makes a local backup copy of all of a github user's (or github organization's) repositories.

Usage

"./github-backup.pl USERNAME BACKUP_DIRECTORY"

Then, put it in a cron job somewhere and forget about it for eternity.

This software is useful in many cases:

GitHub suddenly explodes.
GitHub goes out of business.
Your corporation's backup policies are more stringent than GitHub's.
You have spotty/no internet access - perhaps you'd like to have all of your repositories available to code on while you ride the train?
You are paranoid tinfoil-hat wearer who needs to back up everything in triplicate on a variety of outdated tape media.

If you have any improvements, I'm happy, (grateful, in fact) to entertain pull requests/ patches, just drop me a line or message me on GitHub.