github-backup is a program for downloading data related to a cloned repository from GitHub: forks, bugtracker content, comments, wikis, milestones, pull requests, list of subscribers.
Seeing that even what happened with the youtube-dl program, when her repository was blocked along with a bug tracker and pull requests, few people were pushed to abandon their dependence on GitHub - not even the developer of youtube-dl itself - Joey Hess decided that GitHub users were not interested in backing up anything other than source code.
At the same time, the git repositories themselves source code on GitHub are archived automatically by the site https://softwareheritage.org/, and third-party repositories can only be added there manually, but this function is buggy, and even does not support automatic updating of copies. It turns out a paradoxical problem: the average GitHub user does not think about backup, but gets it, and for those who use their own server, maybe just for reliability, automatic archiving does not occur, even if their software is used.
The github-backup website and repository will be available at https://github-backup.branchable.com/, to which the link over there, but since December 29, she needs a new maintainer.
Source: linux.org.ru