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Re:Show HN: Backup your public GitHub repositories with GitH... by teach on Monday September 08, 2014 @10:38AM (#8284958)
Are there really people whose ONLY copy of a project is on GitHub? If so, I think they're not doing distributed version control correctly.
Re:Show HN: Backup your public GitHub repositories with GitH... by ericlathrop on Monday September 08, 2014 @10:45AM (#8285011)
This tool helps you stay distributed by keeping a server somewhere that constantly backs up all your repos. With this you can't accidentally forget to make a copy if you make a quick repo in a coffee shop somewhere, and delete the local copy days later when you're cleaning up.
Re:Show HN: Backup your public GitHub repositories with GitH... by deanclatworthy on Monday September 08, 2014 @10:49AM (#8285038)
Or you could mirror to multiple repositories with one push. I write about how to use Github & Bitbucket simultaneously here: http://deanclatworthy.com/2013/01/how-to-avoid-relying-on-gi...
Re:Show HN: Backup your public GitHub repositories with GitH... by ericlathrop on Monday September 08, 2014 @10:55AM (#8285078)
Wow, that's a pretty neat approach! How well does that work with multiple people?
Re:Show HN: Backup your public GitHub repositories with GitH... by tomswartz07 on Monday September 08, 2014 @01:28PM (#8286013)
I can't imagine it would be that difficult with multiple people.

Even if they pulled from one or the other, so long as someone merges the changes from the missing repo, everyone will be good to go.

This is a pretty unique approach to multiple git servers.

Re:Show HN: Backup your public GitHub repositories with GitH... by lucaspiller on Monday September 08, 2014 @10:40AM (#8284969)
I have old projects on GitHub that I haven't touched for a few years. They are things that I don't really care about if I lost them though.
Re:Show HN: Backup your public GitHub repositories with GitH... by zeckalpha on Monday September 08, 2014 @11:09AM (#8285165)
I mirror most stuff between Bitbucket and GitHub, plus local copies of course.