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How to Migrate from GitHub's Enterprise Server to Enterprise Cloud
GitHub Enterprise Server is the on-premises git repository hosting offering from GitHub. Large organizations commonly run GitHub Enterprise Server for improved control and security over their code repositories. With Enterprise Server, you can limit...Making the Case for Backups: Convincing Your Team That Backups Matter
Part of being an engineering leader is communicating the needs of the engineering team to non-technical stakeholders. Take backups, for example. Backups cost money to store and take time to create. Theoretically, if everyone does their job...The Risk in Managing Your Own Backups
Data loss is a risk for every business and one that can be mitigated by having reliable backups. On January 31, 2017, Gitlab had an outage that lasted for many hours due to production data being accidentally deleted. In this case, Gitlab’s problems...
Recovering a Deleted GitHub Repository
If you are an organization enthusiast like me, you will be quick to hit the delete button on old repositories you’re no longer using. For personal projects, this is an effective way to keep your GitHub account clean. In shared organization accounts,...
May 13 post-incident report
On May 13 we received the cronjob message: cannot delete snapshot and cannot snapshot read only file system. We discussed the issue in our Daily and assumed a problem with the Filesystem Btrfs. After reading the error logs and some initial research...
May 13/14 incident (resolved)
At 07.54am UTC on May 13 during routine maintenance we discovered an issue in our main data storage. Because customer data is of critical importance to us, we paused the automatic GitHub repository daily backup until we could resolve the issue. We...
File instead of GitHub Repository Downloads
We’re changing the behavior of the Repository Download Button. To date, when you clicked on “Repository Download”, you received a zip file containing the repository (contained in the .git folder) and a checkout of the master branch. This kind of...
We're looking for Pilot Customers to try BackHub Private Instance
Many customers have asked if they could run BackHub as a private instance in their own AWS environment. While this idea isn’t new, we are now in a much better position to provide such a solution because we have rebuilt our whole infrastructure on...