How to Automatically Back-up All Your Github Repo and Archive Them

Afraid of losing all your hard work on github ? Here a simple and fast way to backup all your projects in multiple zip files.

Goals

1. Clone all our repositories.
2. Archive them to their respective folderName.zip
3. Delete the repository folders

Requirements

• Linux, git-bash on windows, well basically you need to be able to run bash script.
• Github CLI → Access to the repo list and clone using https login.
• parallel → Parallelize code to reduce execution time.
• p7zip [Wiki ubuntu-fr] → Archive the cloned repository.

The Script

You'll just need to input your account username in line 2 of the script.

You can find it here :https://github.com/USER

The script will clone and archive the repositories in the current folder.

# Cloning all the repositories from a profile
gh repo list USER --limit 1000 --json nameWithOwner --jq '.[].nameWithOwner' | \
   parallel -j16 gh repo clone

# Function to archive and remove subfolders
archive_and_remove() {
  local subfolder="$1"
  local subfolder_name="${subfolder%/}"

  # Archive the subfolder to its own ZIP file
  7z a -tzip "${subfolder_name}.zip" "$subfolder_name"

  # Remove the original subfolder
  rm -rf "$subfolder_name"
}

# Export the function to make it available to parallel
export -f archive_and_remove

# Use find to get a list of subfolders and pipe it to parallel
find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -exec basename {} \; | \
  parallel -j16 archive_and_remove

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