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

2 points by jasonm23 1y ago ↗ HN

I am, as I'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.

Censorship, or incompetence could lead to my work being zapped for any number of reasons.

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.

I'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?

And is my concern warranted?

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lygten 1y ago ↗

I use a cheap pi zero. 32 GB card. Minimal power consumption. Backup to a hosted restic server (free).

1718627440 1y ago ↗

I simply add the backup drive as remote.

t_believ-er873 1y ago ↗

Well, GitHub, Bitbucket, or any other git hosting service isn'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 - https://github.com/marketplace/gitprotect-io