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Asked: 2026-05-16T18:44:49+00:00

I’d like to periodically create a backup of my github repositories. Is there a

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I’d like to periodically create a backup of my github repositories. Is there a quick way to pull all of them without knowing what the entire list is?

Walter

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  1. Editorial Team

    The answer I was waiting for.

    I decided to give Ruby a try and it is okay. I like how it is compact, but it isn’t pretty looking :(.

    This works:

    #!/usr/bin/env ruby
require "yaml"
require "open-uri"

time = Time.new
backupDirectory = "/storage/backups/github.com/#{time.year}.#{time.month}.#{time.day}"
username = "walterjwhite"

#repositories =
# .map{|r| %Q[#{r[:name]}] }

#FileUtils.mkdir_p #{backupDirectory}

YAML.load(open("http://github.com/api/v2/yaml/repos/show/#{username}"))['repositories'].map{|repository|

    puts "found repository: #{repository[:name]} ... downloading ..."
    #exec
    system "git clone git@github.com:#{username}/#{repository[:name]}.git #{backupDirectory}/#{repository[:name]}"
}

    Walter

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