gobackup

gobackup

A tool that allows you to backup all your GitHub, GitLab repos onto your local machine, and even upload them to a different repo manager!

Table of Contents

1. Installation
2. Usage
3. Milestones

Installation

A quick guide on how to install the tool. Not currently available.

brew tap tempor1s/gobackup
brew install gobackup

Usage

Before you get started, you are going to need either a GitHub personal access token, or a GitLab personal access token. For example, if you want to clone your GitHub public repos and upload them to GitLab, you are going to need a GitLab personal access token. if you want to clone ALL your repos on GitHub and upload them to gitlab, you are going to need a personal access token for both of them.

• GitHub Personal Access Token You can create a GitHub token here.

• GitLab Personal Access Token You can create a GitLab token here.

# clone all the repos to your local machine. --token is optional, but you need it to clone private repositories - token is not required
gobackup download <platform> <username> --token=123abc

# once you have your repos cloned to your local machine, you can either upload them to GitHub or GitLab - in this case a token is required
gobackup upload <platform> <directory> --token=123abc

Thats it! All your repos should now be backed to your chosen platform, and you can delete the local copy if you want to :)

Milestones

• Clone a single repository to your computer through CLI.
• Clone multiple repositories to local computer
• Clone multiple reposiories using concurrency
• Add support for cloning GitLab repos
• Upload cloned repositories to GitLab
• Do the above concurrently
• Do the reverse, upload cloned repositories to GitHub
• Do the above concurrently
• Deployment!
• Add backup command that will download the repo to memory (or disk I guess) and then instant upload it to new platform of choice
• Respect the privacy status of a cloned repo when we upload it again
• Set up Cron Job to periodically backup new repos / changes to old repos to local / other service like GitLab