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How to Back Up a Single File From a GitHub Repository
The last time I had ten GitHub tabs open trying to evaluate which JavaScript library to use for a particular project, I wanted to grab one of the example files and pull it down to my local machine. It would be convenient to make a few edits and make...
Backing Up Your GitHub Repository for SOC2 Compliance
SOC (System and Organizational Control), pronounced “Sock,” is an audit that rates companies on their performance in TSC (Trust Service Criteria), summarized below. These guidelines cover everything from databases and software applications to cloud...
Three Ways to Backup Your GitHub Issues
While GitHub is a well-established company, data loss is always a risk worth considering. Data breaches, policy changes, and system downtime all have an impact on your ability to access and use GitHub Issues effectively, so keeping a backup is...
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...