Looking for your personal lists of Github repositories, which might be deleted from Github at some point, for whatever reason. For example, the maintainer might delete his account from Github or archive all his repositories.
A famous example of an open source project, which had trouble to continue thriving, is youtube-dl.
Which projects’ repositories do you think are worth backing up?
Don’t really have a recommendation about which, but I do about how.
For repositories that I deem important, either for practical or nostalgia reasons, I use Gitea to keep an up to date clone. I believe most self hosted Git solutions offer a similar functionality, like Gitlab has one too that I’m aware of.
Which ones do you deem important?
Archive team has GitHub as one of their projects, but it doesn’t target a specific repo.
I used to keep a list of repos to pull onto my NAS in case they someday went closed source. I use “mr” for it. It worked great. I had it on a systemd timer.
I think the biggest ones that would suck if lost would be Qbit, Jellyfin, and Trilium. Qbit because it download and share a lot with it. Jellyfin because of most of my family’s media consumption is via it. And trilium because most of my notes from the past year plus are there plus imported others. It’s essential.
Okay, but are they in danger of being removed? I think, they should be very well preserved…
Wonder if there’s a docker to backup and update repos
Forgejo has an option to mirror a repository and update on a regular interval. It won’t get wikis or issues though. I’ve got mine set up to mirror a bunch of decomps.
How do you do that without needing a pak for that repo?
Unless I am doing something Wong which is always likely.
It won’t get wikis or issues though.
You can easily mirror Github wikis as well. You just need to add
.wiki.gitto the repo URL. That way you can clone the wiki just like any other Git repo.
@TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub Why did you report my comment???
Reason: Honest question: why docker if a simple git command is enough?
I don’t recall reporting any comment today. Can I fix that if I reported it somehow?
Edit: shit, I see I used report instead of reply. Im sorry.
