BackHub Blog
Different states of a backup
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...
New Feature: Download GitHub repository as ZIP Archive from a Backup
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...
New Feature: Download Metadata associated with your GitHub repository
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...
New Feature: Introducing Automatic Backups
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...
Announcing Our New App Frontend
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...
Introducing Yearly Plans
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...
New Feature: Recurring GitHub Backups
Today we introduce the often requested feature “daily recurring backups”. Once activated, BackHub automatically backs up your GitHub repository including all associated metadata on a daily basis. For existing backups recurrence is deactivated. If...
Public Beta - We're Going Live!
Over the last couple of weeks we have been busy working on a complete refactor of our code base. The result is a much more reliable and faster app with improved repository recovery and some of the new features our beta users suggested. From today...