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Ask HN: How are you storing your personal Git repos?

2 pointsby jasonm23about 2 months ago
I am, as I&#x27;m sure many of you are, not confident in the integrity of Github, BitBucket etc. when it comes to hosting git repos, in the long term.<p>Censorship, or incompetence could lead to my work being zapped for any number of reasons.<p>During last year, I hosted all my repos on a local machine via Gitea, which then pushes commits on to Github where I keep my repos publicly.<p>I&#x27;m sure my paranoia is fairly mid among the community, but I wonder what are you doing about your open source work and how do you store your repos?<p>And is my concern warranted?

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t_believ-er873about 2 months ago
Well, GitHub, Bitbucket, or any other git hosting service isn&#x27;t backup strategy, and the data stored there still needs backup and protection. Tere are some tools that can help with it, e.g. GitProtect - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;marketplace&#x2F;gitprotect-io">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;marketplace&#x2F;gitprotect-io</a>
lygtenabout 2 months ago
I use a cheap pi zero. 32 GB card. Minimal power consumption. Backup to a hosted restic server (free).
1718627440about 2 months ago
I simply add the backup drive as remote.