leopnt / githubck

Backup github repositories

Githubck

Script I use to backup my github repos

Encrypt token with password

this is useful if someone get access to your computer. So that your github token is not written in plain text file.

0. make a github token in settings > developer settings > personal access token and give full repo access

1. write token into file

echo "<ghub_token_here>" > ghub_token.txt

Make sure to remove the last line that contains the token from ~/.bash_history

or disable your shell's history while doing the previous task

2. encrypt token

It will ask for a password. Remember this password for the github script

gpg -o ghub_token.gpg --symmetric --no-symkey-cache ghub_token.txt

3. check decryption

gpg --no-symkey-cache --quiet -d --batch --passphrase "<step 2 password>" ghub_token.gpg

4. execute script

on macos:

bash -i ./github_backup.sh -d <backup destination folder>

It will ask for username and the token encryption password

Example output after backups

backup_folder
  |-- 2021-11-20T142548.tar.gz
    |-- repo1
    |-- repo2
    ...
  |-- 2021-11-22T000023.tar.gz
  |-- 2021-11-23T000023.tar.gz
  ...