[unxdfa]

Smells like everyone in github

I got told I was insane for backing up github. I clone all our github repos daily, zip them up and stuff them in S3

[jefftk]

At least for code, git being distributed means that there's always multiple copies with typical workflows.

For example, in addition to the copy on GitHub whoever pushed last should have a completely current copy. And everyone else working with the repo should have something pretty current.

[unxdfa]

We have 643 git repos. I'm not sure we could reconstruct all of those by going round 300 engineers' machines...

[jefftk]

Sorry, yes, at that scale I agree backups are worth it.

[ClumsyPilot]

Exactly, its a fantasy

Our company has thousands of repos, some of them years old.

[akho]

How do you back up issues/pr discussions?

[unxdfa]

We don’t track issues in GitHub. PRs are considered disposable.