Linux/Mac OS X 
gitbackup is a tool to backup your git repositories from GitHub (including GitHub enterprise) or
GitLab (including custom GitLab installations).
gitbackup only creates a backup of the repository and does not currently support issues,
pull requests or other data associated with a git repository. This may or may not be in the future
scope of this tool.
If you are following along my Linux Journal article, please obtain the version of the source tagged with lj-0.1.
Binary releases are available from the Releases page. Please download the ZIP corresponding to your OS and architecture and unzip the binary somewhere in your $PATH.
gitbackup requires a GitHub API access token for
backing up GitHub repositories and GitLab personal access token
for GitLab. You can supply the token to gitbackup using GITHUB_TOKEN and GITLAB_TOKEN environment variables respectively.
Typing -help will display the command line options that gitbackup recognizes:
$ gitbackup -help
Usage of ./bin/gitbackup:
-backupdir string
Backup directory
-githost.url string
DNS of the custom Git host
-github.repoType string
Repo types to backup (all, owner, member) (default "all")
-gitlab.projectVisibility string
Visibility level of Projects to clone (default "internal")
-service string
Git Hosted Service Name (github/gitlab)
To backup all your GitHub repositories to the default backup directory ($HOME/.gitbackup/):
$ GITHUB_TOKEN=secret$token gitbackup -service github
To backup only the GitHub repositories which you are the "owner" of:
$ GITHUB_TOKEN=secret$token gitbackup -service github -github.repoType owner
To backup only the GitHub repositories which you are the "member" of:
$ GITHUB_TOKEN=secret$token gitbackup -service github -github.repoType member
To backup all projects which have their visibility set to
"internal" on https://gitlab.com to the default backup directory ($HOME/.gitbackup/):
$ GITLAB_TOKEN=secret$token gitbackup -service gitlab
To backup only the GitLab projects which are "public"
$ GITLAB_TOKEN=secret$token gitbackup -service gitlab -gitlab.projectVisibility public
To backup only the private repositories:
$ GITLAB_TOKEN=secret$token gitbackup -service gitlab -gitlab.projectVisibility private
To specify a custom GitHub enterprise or GitLab location, specify the service as well as the
the githost.url flag, like so
$ GITLAB_TOKEN=secret$token gitbackup -service gitlab -githost.url https://git.yourhost.com
To specify a custom backup directory, we can use the backupdir flag:
$ GITHUB_TOKEN=secret$token gitbackup -service github -backupdir /data/
This will create a github.com directory in /data and backup all your repositories there instead.
Similarly, it will create a gitlab.com directory, if you are backing up repositories from gitlab.
If you have specified a Git Host URL, it will create a directory structure data/host-url/.
If you have Golang 1.7 or 1.8 installed, you can clone the repository and:
$ go build
The built binary will be gitbackup.