GitHub Records Archiver

Backs up a GitHub organization's repositories and all their associated information for archival purposes.

What it archives

• Git data (change history, tags, branches, etc.)
• Wikis (including change history)
• Issues and pull request (including comments, current state, etc.)

Requirements

1. Ruby
2. A GitHub personal access token with public_repo and repo scope.

Setup

1. git clone https://github.com/benbalter/github-records-archiver
2. cd github-records-archiver
3. gem install bundler
4. bundle install

Usage

bin/archive [ORGANIZATION]

You'll want to set the following environmental variable:

• GITHUB_TOKEN - Your personal access token

You may set the following environmental variables:

• GITHUB_ARCHIVE_DIR to specify the output directory. It will default to ./archive.
• GITHUB_ORGANIZATION - The organization to archive if none is passed as an argument.

These can be passed as GITHUB_TOKEN=123ABC GITHUB_ORGANIZATION=whitehouse bin/archive.

You can also add the values to a .env file in the project's root directory, which will be automatically set as environmental variables.

Output

The script will create an archive directory, with one folder for each repository.

Within each folder will be the repository content as a git repository.

If the repository has a Wiki, the wiki will be cloned as a wiki subfolder, as a Git repository.

If the repository has issues or pull requests, it will create an issues sub-folder with each issue and its associated comments stored as individual markdown files.