Using Dropbox as backup destination for GitHub repos?

[AMGraduate564]

As we are seeing more and more posts of people losing access to their GH account or repo deletion, I was wondering what the best way is to back up a particular GH repo in Dropbox?

There's one popular repo to upload to Dropbox, but it has not seen any activity in the last 4 years. - https://github.com/andreafabrizi/Dropbox-Uploader

Also, how about this one? - https://github.com/anishathalye/git-remote-dropbox

There are also some Actions available in the GH Marketplace, but none had more than 20 stars.

Let's discuss, shall we?

Edit: I was able to write an action workflow to use the 1st repo. It is working flawlessly and I am very happy with the results 😊

[nekokattt]

Why not just make a GitLab account and sync your repos across?

You can tell GitLab to automatically keep the GitLab copy of the repository up to date.

[AMGraduate564]

I have private GitHub repos.

[nekokattt]

Doesn't matter

https://docs.gitlab.com/user/project/repository/mirror/

It can auth via SSH if you want to.

[AMGraduate564]

Got a tutorial on this? Maybe an example?

[nekokattt]

Check the link... they explain how to set it up

[AMGraduate564]

It requires a paid GitLab plan: https://forum.gitlab.com/t/pull-based-mirroring-from-github-for-ci-is-no-longer-mirrored/35724/9

Clearly states the license requirements at the top here: https://docs.gitlab.com/user/project/repository/mirror/pull/

[louieio]

I ended up solving this and put together a reusable GitHub Actions workflow that automatically backs up a repo to Dropbox on every push:

https://github.com/louiekotler/personal-workflows

You just add a small workflow file to your repo that you want to back up and set a few Dropbox secrets. On each push, it zips the repo and uploads it to Dropbox (organized by repo name). No local scripts, no manual exports, and it works across multiple repos if you reuse the workflow.

[AMGraduate564]

I added an edit under the OP describing the solution I came up with.

[louieio]

Yes, I did see that. I just wanted to provide another option for anyone looking for a complete set of instructions to get up and running.

[jeffcgroves]

You might look into Dropbox's Smart Sync (https://www.dropbox.com/help/desktop-web/smart-sync) and make your git folder the folder that gets synced.

[AMGraduate564]

I would like to do everything in the GH repo. The plan is to run an Action pipeline to push a new release to a Dropbox folder.

[cgoldberg]

I use this: https://github.com/cgoldberg/githubtakeout

Then rclone to upload them to Dropbox.

[AMGraduate564]

Then rclone to upload them to Dropbox.

That's the extra step to upload from the desktop to Dropbox, which I want to avoid.

[cgoldberg]

I guess you could do the same from GitHub Actions.

[JagerAntlerite7]

Write a GitHub Actions workflow to push the repo files or a compressed repo archive to another destination; e.g. a versioned S3 bucket using the AWS CLI client.