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Ask HN: Does your company back up its source code, or trust your Git repo 100%?

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At one startup I worked at, the CTO accidentally nuked the master branch from both his local machine and upstream. We restored it from the copy I had on my laptop. This incident didn't result in creating backups to my knowledge

Backup is an important part of source code security strategy. In the perfect scenario, it's worth having a few workinf copies of your git repos and metadata in different locations. For that reason, it's possible to use diffrent backup optons, like backup scripts or DevOps backup tools (e.g. GitProtect).

Yes, we backup a git repo, but not a GitHub with their issues, PRs and so on.

So i have question to HN too, what a good ways you know to backup GitHub repo with all stuff from there?

I tried a gitea, but it may only copy repo once, but not sync changes.

Its interesting to me that companies literally bet the entire company on there never being any problem ever with their github repos.

There's an assumption that it is simply impossible to lose the data that you store in github.

Huh, we see an arguments against of this point every year. The projects like https://yuzu-emu.org/ (deleted from github and now lives as https://suyu.dev/) or youtube-dl (been suspended on github for some time), a lot of developers from Russia and another countries under sanctions also been blocked. Github is a place for communication with dev community, but it is definitely not a safe place for backup the code.

There is github-backup for code/issues/etc, but it doesn't restore to other systems nor back to GitHub.

https://github-backup.branchable.com/

You could use multiple services for redundancy, ie keep a repo on github/gitlab/bit bucket, i think they all have import / export features into each other to keep issues and stuff

Look at GitProtect.io for DevOps tools. It allows to back up all the repository and medata.

Gitea does mirroring—I use it, but not to backup, but to work within a specific workflow on certain repositories.

I was using source repositories on gcp for this. I have it mirroring my github repositories. Unfortunately it is getting killed.

I use remotes liberally. Reconciliation is a problem for later

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