GitHub Backup Action Utilities
chyroc
Posted on March 1, 2022
Hi, good morning everyone.
I want to introduce a tool based on GitHub Action to backup GitHub data to DropBox.
As an engineer, GitHub is the software we use frequently, and the information stored on GitHub is an important asset for us as engineers. To back up this data, I developed this tool.
The address of the tool is: https://github.com/chyroc/github2dropbox.
This tool can back up a variety of GitHub data, including:
- Star
- Follower
- Following
- Repo
- Issue
- Issue Comment
- Gist
- .git
Very simple to use:
add file: .github/workflows/github-backup.yml
to your project
name: github-backup
on:
push:
branches: [ master ] # trigger on pushes to master
pull_request: # trigger on pull requests
jobs:
run:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
timeout-minutes: 60 # timeout after 60 minutes
steps:
- name: Backup
uses: chyroc/github2dropbox@v0.2.0
with:
DROPBOX_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.DROPBOX_TOKEN }} # dropbox token
GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.G_TOKEN }} # github token
ENABLE_REPO: true # enable repo backup
ENABLE_STAR: true # enable star backup
ENABLE_FOLLOWER: true # enable follower backup
ENABLE_FOLLOWING: true # enable following backup
ENABLE_GIST: true # enable gist backup
ENABLE_ISSUE: true # enable issue backup(need ENABLE_REPO=true)
ENABLE_ISSUE_COMMENT: true # enable issue comment backup(need ENABLE_REPO=true)
ENABLE_REPO_GIT: true # enable repo .git folder backup(need ENABLE_REPO=true)
When GitHub Action runs, the tool will use the GitHub Access Token you configured to access the GitHub API, store it as a zip, json, etc. file, and upload it to DropBox.
Posted on March 1, 2022
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