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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?

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[–] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 days ago

Archive team has GitHub as one of their projects, but it doesn’t target a specific repo.

https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Warrior_projects

[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Akito@lemmy.zip -1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Okay, but are they in danger of being removed? I think, they should be very well preserved...

[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I mean I’m not sure! The way you worded accounts being deleted or repos made me think you meant in general

Edit Yeah you say worth preserving. So for me I will go back those up!

[–] demesisx@infosec.pub 7 points 2 days ago

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.

https://myrepos.branchable.com/

[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

Wonder if there’s a docker to backup and update repos

[–] gwheel@lemm.ee 19 points 2 days ago (5 children)

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.

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

How do you do that without needing a pak for that repo?

Unless I am doing something Wong which is always likely.

[–] 486@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

It won’t get wikis or issues though.

You can easily mirror Github wikis as well. You just need to add .wiki.git to the repo URL. That way you can clone the wiki just like any other Git repo.

[–] Akito@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

Running Gitea and want to mirror worthwhile repositories, hence this post. :)

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago

Yep and you can dictate the sync time. It's great.

[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 1 points 2 days ago

Thanks! This is great to know.

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

Dunno about docker setup, but I mirror github repos I worry may disappear automatically using my self-hosted gogs instance. (Gitea/Forgejo likely also can do it). It's point-and-click, you just specify the github URL and check a box "this is a mirror".

[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

@TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub Why did you report my comment???

Reason: Honest question: why docker if a simple git command is enough?

[–] TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 2 points 1 day ago

I figured it seems like a response not a report! Thanks for clarifying :)

I agree with cli command over docker. Sometimes docker is easier for the less informed though, me.

[–] InnerScientist@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

You triggered the independent thought alarm