Go program that utilizes the Github API to backup a user's repositories, including repositories that have been starred. Multiple users can be backed up, including all members of a GitHub organization.

1. Create a Github personal access token with the following scopes: read:user, repo
2. Either download a binary for your system from releases, or build the program and add it to your PATH with go install.
3. Copy config.example.yaml to config.yaml and fill in the fields.
   • In addition, command line flags can be used to specify configuration options. Use the help command or the --help flag for more information.
   • It is recommended to read through the config.example.yaml file to understand the configuration options.
4. Run the program with gobackup-github backup
   • To perform a rolling backup, run gobackup-github backup continuous

This program can also be run in Docker.

To create a container that removes itself after exiting, run docker run --rm -it -v ${PWD}/config.yaml:/config.yaml -v ${PWD}/backup:/backups ghcr.io/slashtechno/gobackup-github:latest
To create a container that runs on boot and performs a rolling backup every 24 hours, run docker run --restart unless-stopped -d --name gobackup-github -v ${PWD}/config.yaml:/config.yaml -v ${PWD}/backup:/backups ghcr.io/slashtechno/gobackup-github:latest continuous -i 24h

You can also just run docker compose up -d to start the container with automatic restarts, assuming you have a docker-compose.yml file in the same directory as the config.yaml file. You can also edit the docker-compose.yml file to change configuration and to manage the rolling backup, if needed.

Pull Requests are welcome!