How to back up private branches in git

Question

I have a local branch for day-to-day dev work in git. My workflow is:

1. Do stuff on local_branch, commit
2. Fetch origin/master
3. Rebase local_bran

Answer 1

I use the --mirror option and push to a personal backup repository:

Add it as a remote:

git remote add bak server:/path/to/backup/repo

Do the backup:

git push --mirror bak

This will automatically make your backup repository look like your active one -- branches will be created, deleted, updated (even forced/non-fastforwards) as needed. You can make an alias for this too:

git config alias.bak "push --mirror bak"

Then, it's just a matter of running "git bak" when you want to do a backup. You could also throw this into a cron job.