Secure your code (and hard work): A guide to backing up your GitHub repositories

• Troy Dieter
• Git

GitHub repository backup Intro What is GitHub? Protection against data loss Collaboration Control over versioning Compliance with regulatory requirements Peace of mind Why back it up? Backing up your code Conclusion Intro Concerned that you may eventually, lose access to GitHub and all of your repositories? Having an external backup of your work is important, and should follow the 3-2-1 Backup rule. In the case below, I’ve used the python-github-backup PIP package to back up all of my repositories to an external source. The code backup strategy I follow is: