Making a backup of your GitHub repositories
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When working with GitHub, you have the advantage that everything is stored in the cloud. While this is fine for most people, it can be useful to make a local backup in the case you expect to have no internet for a certain period of time, like a vacation.
Initial backup tool
Lucky for us, git already has the features build in to effectively mirror a remote repository using the mirror flag, so the only thing left for us, is getting a list of repositories to clone.
This…