In June 2018 many of us were surprised to see Microsoft announce the purchase of the developer platform GitHub for $7.5 billion. GitHub confirmed the deal [1]. Wow! What a bomb. This is only the tenth multi-billion dollar acquisition of Microsoft in...
Today we are excited to announce that BackHub is now available on GitHub Marketplace. It’s an all new version of BackHub that comes with a new feature called “Backup Snapshots” and is built as a GitHub App for a more solid integration, allowing...
You can now download the full GitHub repository including all branches directly from BackHub. Until now it was only possible to download a checkout of the latest commit in your master branch as a zip file. However, many users found it irritating...
While building and running BackHub the last three years, we got lots of user feedback and have learned a lot about what a backup solution for GitHub should provide. We know that large organizations may have concerns about handing over their most...
We have renamed a couple of things in the list of repository backups and introduced a new differentiation between archived backups with upstream to the original repository at GitHub and archived backups without upstream. Let me explain in detail...
In addition to “Download Metadata” which let’s you download all metadata of your GitHub repository backup like GitHub issues, milestones and more, you can now also download the GitHub repository of a GitHub repository backup as a ZIP archive. The...
Being able to download GitHub repository backups including GitHub issues, milestones, labels etc. has been the most requested feature since we started BackHub. You can always restore backups back to GitHub, but what if GitHub is temporarily not...
We’re excited to announce a new feature called “Automatic Backups” available in the account settings. It makes life easier for everyone who wants to backup all of their repositories, including new ones they create at GitHub. Once activated, BackHub...
We have some exciting news: we just launched a complete refactoring of the app front end. This was an important milestone for us to prepare for upcoming features and improvements. What has changed? We have combined repositories and backups into one...
Today we are introducing yearly plans. This has been requested a lot, especially by our corporate users. Yearly plans can be a great way to simplify bookkeeping if, for example, you’re required to submit expense reports every time you use your...