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How do you backup your projects?

Madza on July 27, 2020

Having a well-thought-out backup strategy can help you to avoid the crushing feeling that comes with finding out that all your projects are gone. ...

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Pacharapol Withayasakpunt • Jul 27 '20 • Edited

GitHub, sometimes private, repos?

In reality, I copy ~/projects to external hard disk before formatting my computer. (with rsync to prevent copying node_modules)

Karan Gandhi • Jul 28 '20

Keep multiple copies on multiple hard disks/DVDs/storage media(atleast 2) and some on online SCM like bitbucket/gitlab/your-server.

Make a Note on how to build the project with exact dependencies cos by the time I have to reuse it the build instructions might be incompatible with my current system.
Keep installers of all tools required because you may never know when a tool gets deprecated.

Have multiple backup strategies since every strategy has a weakness.

Vlastimil Pospichal • Jul 27 '20

I use GitHub, GitLab and BitBucket for my projects. Google Drive is for medias and tutorials. All data are saved to external HDD too.

Galuh Utama • Jul 28 '20 • Edited

I have a private git repository at home, hosted in a small energy-saving server, that is reachable over VPN. It has 2 NAS grade drives, that are configured as RAID 1 (mirrored). Once a week, important data of those drives are backed up to an external drive.

All repositories are cloned to my laptop and workstation PC and are kept up-to-date.

Thinking about backing up to cloud too (with encryption, of course), but I still don't trust cloud providers.

shadowtime2000 • Jul 28 '20

Github because nothing I do is so important it has to be private.

Abdul Qoyyuum • Jul 28 '20

Public repos = Github
Private repos = Bitbucket
Password DB (Keepass and SSH Keys) = Syncthing and Thumbdrive

Currently looking at putting my private container images somewhere for free.

Alex Janke • Jul 28 '20

Any specific reason why you split your private and public repos between GitHub and Bitbucket?

Abdul Qoyyuum • Jul 29 '20

At first it was a MS scare after they took over GitHub. It was fine but still have trust issues with them. Also at the time, GitHub Actions wasn't publicly available and I need my pipelines for automated CI/CD

Tom Granot • Jul 28 '20

I format my computer, recall I had a lingering shell script in my home directory that I really needed, reconstruct it from scratch, name it something weird that doesn't get backed up properly, forget to use it for a while, format my computer.

Repeat x \infty.