BackHub Blog (5)

Frank Hofmann wrote on May 2019

Constant Backup Using Gitwatch

Have you ever felt that software seems to have a mind of its own, is sometimes stubborn, and works a bit against you? Unfortunately, this behaviour happens - and can lead to losing intermediate steps of our work, or even losing the entire results...

Daniel Heitz wrote on April 2019

Securing GitHub repositories with BackHub - an FAQ roundup

Today we have a super-quick post to answer a few frequent questions we get at BackHub. Have you ever wondered if you can… Restore any GitHub repository? Clone a repository anytime? Sync to your own cloud storage? Access repository data even if...

Daniel Heitz wrote on April 2019

NEW! Sync GitHub repository backups to Amazon S3

Today, we are releasing Cloud Sync, the most-requested feature to date. Cloud Sync is an option for automatically syncing your GitHub repository backups to your own Amazon S3 storage, with other cloud storage providers to be supported in future....

Daniel Heitz wrote on March 2019

The BackHub Roadmap for 2019

We’re excited about taking BackHub to the next level this year! We highly value customer feedback and also like to be transparent about our plans. These plans are based both on customer feedback and keeping up with evolving industry standards. In...

Daniel Heitz wrote on February 2019

Replacing the BackHub OAuth App with the new BackHub GitHub App

For all BackHub Basic customers we are replacing the BackHub OAuth App (BackHub Basic) with the new BackHub GitHub App (BackHub on GitHub Marketplace). If you are a BackHub Basic customer, it is required that you install the BackHub GitHub App to...

Daniel Heitz wrote on January 2019

A Great Year for BackHub - 2018

At BackHub we recently celebrated our first year anniversary in the GitHub Marketplace.

Frank Hofmann wrote on November 2018

Let's Talk Backup Strategies

Why Consider Backup Strategies? Saving copies of your work as backups is essential to prevent data loss, especially in today’s digital and multi-connected world. The reasons range from hardware failures (manmade or natural) to accidental data...

Daniel Heitz wrote on October 2018

New Feature: Clone your GitHub backup directly from BackHub servers

You can now clone any of your GitHub repository backups directly from the BackHub servers. You can also clone any of the snapshots available for a specific backup. In BackHub, open the panel of the backup you want to clone, select the snapshot in...

Frank Hofmann wrote on August 2018

Surprising news - Microsoft acquired the developer platform GitHub

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...

Daniel Heitz wrote on December 2017

BackHub now available on GitHub Marketplace

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...