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Open Source Github Repositories in Danger of being Deleted

Looking for your personal lists of Github repositories, which might be deleted from Github at some point, for whatever reason. For example, the maintainer might delete his account from Github or archive all his repositories.

A famous example of an open source project, which had trouble to continue thriving, is youtube-dl.

Which projects' repositories do you think are worth backing up?

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Archive team has GitHub as one of their projects, but it doesn’t target a specific repo.

https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Warrior_projects
I think the biggest ones that would suck if lost would be Qbit, Jellyfin, and Trilium. Qbit because it download and share a lot with it. Jellyfin because of most of my family’s media consumption is via it. And trilium because most of my notes from the past year plus are there plus imported others. It’s essential.
- Okay, but are they in danger of being removed? I think, they should be very well preserved...
  
  I mean I’m not sure! The way you worded accounts being deleted or repos made me think you meant in general
  
  Edit Yeah you say worth preserving. So for me I will go back those up!
I used to keep a list of repos to pull onto my NAS in case they someday went closed source. I use “mr” for it. It worked great. I had it on a systemd timer.

https://myrepos.branchable.com/
Wonder if there’s a docker to backup and update repos
- Forgejo has an option to mirror a repository and update on a regular interval. It won't get wikis or issues though. I've got mine set up to mirror a bunch of decomps.
  
  It won’t get wikis or issues though.
  
  You can easily mirror Github wikis as well. You just need to add .wiki.git to the repo URL. That way you can clone the wiki just like any other Git repo.
  
  Yep and you can dictate the sync time. It's great.
  
  Running Gitea and want to mirror worthwhile repositories, hence this post. :)
  
  How do you do that without needing a pak for that repo?
  
  Unless I am doing something Wong which is always likely.
  
  Thanks! This is great to know.
- Dunno about docker setup, but I mirror github repos I worry may disappear automatically using my self-hosted gogs instance. (Gitea/Forgejo likely also can do it). It's point-and-click, you just specify the github URL and check a box "this is a mirror".
- https://github.com/SierraSoftworks/github-backup
  
  Thanks!
- @TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub Why did you report my comment???
  
  Reason: Honest question: why docker if a simple git command is enough?
  
  I don’t recall reporting any comment today. Can I fix that if I reported it somehow?
  
  Edit: shit, I see I used report instead of reply. Im sorry.
  
  You triggered the independent thought alarm
Don’t really have a recommendation about which, but I do about how.

For repositories that I deem important, either for practical or nostalgia reasons, I use Gitea to keep an up to date clone. I believe most self hosted Git solutions offer a similar functionality, like Gitlab has one too that I’m aware of.
- Which ones do you deem important?

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