Backing up GitHub repositories

Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

After a litany of outages on GitHub, horror stories of people losing their Blogger blogs, broadcasters losing years of data in cloud storage and Google account suspensions, I suddenly realised I had no offline backups of my GitHub repositories.

I’d heard of this kind of thing happening to blogs, but I didn’t expect it to happen to GitHub so soon. And with AI agents known for deleting random shit, I decided it was time to find a solution that could reliably back up my repositories.

Backups on Maceage's Blog