Is there a simple way to backup an entire git repo including all branches and tags?
Whats about just make a clone of it?
git clone --mirror other/repo.git
Every repository is a backup of its remote.
git bundle
I like that method, as it results in only one file, easier to copy around.
See ProGit: little bundle of joy.
See also "How can I email someone a git repository?", where the command
git bundle create /tmp/foo-all --all
is detailed:
git bundlewill only package references that are shown by git show-ref: this includes heads, tags, and remote heads.
It is very important that the basis used be held by the destination.
It is okay to err on the side of caution, causing the bundle file to contain objects already in the destination, as these are ignored when unpacking at the destination.
For using that bundle, you can clone it, specifying a non-existent folder (outside of any git repo):
git clone /tmp/foo-all newFolder
Expanding on some other answers, this is what I do:
Setup the repo: git clone --mirror user@server:/url-to-repo.git
Then when you want to refresh the backup: git remote update from the clone location.
This backs up all branches and tags, including new ones that get added later, although it's worth noting that branches that get deleted do not get deleted from the clone (which for a backup may be a good thing).
This is atomic so doesn't have the problems that a simple copy would.
Expanding on the great answers by KingCrunch and VonC
I combined them both:
git clone --mirror git@some.origin/reponame reponame.git
cd reponame.git
git bundle create reponame.bundle --all
After that you have a file called reponame.bundle that can be easily copied around. You can then create a new normal git repository from that using git clone reponame.bundle reponame.
Note that git bundle only copies commits that lead to some reference (branch or tag) in the repository. So tangling commits are not stored to the bundle.
Everything is contained in the .git directory. Just back that up along with your project as you would any file.
use git bundle, or clone
copying the git directory is not a good solution because it is not atomic. If you have a large repository that takes a long time to copy and someone pushes to your repository, it will affect your back up. Cloning or making a bundle will not have this problem.
You can backup the git repo with git-copy at minimum storage size.
git copy /path/to/project /backup/project.repo.backup
Then you can restore your project with git clone
git clone /backup/project.repo.backup project
The correct answer IMO is git clone --mirror. This will fully backup your repo.
Git clone mirror will clone the entire repository, notes, heads, refs, etc. and is typically used to copy an entire repository to a new git server. This will pull down an all branches and everything, the entire repository.
git clone --mirror git@example.com/your-repo.git
Normally cloning a repo does not include all branches, only Master.
Copying the repo folder will only "copy" the branches that have been pulled in...so by default that is Master branch only or other branches you have checked-out previously.
The Git bundle command is also not what you want: "The bundle command will package up everything that would normally be pushed over the wire with a git push command into a binary file that you can email to someone or put on a flash drive, then unbundle into another repository." (From What's the difference between git clone --mirror and git clone --bare)
cd /path/to/backupdir/
git clone /path/to/repo
cd /path/to/repo
git remote add backup /path/to/backupdir
git push --set-upstream backup master
this creates a backup and makes the setup, so that you can do a git push to update your backup, what is probably what you want to do. Just make sure, that /path/to/backupdir and /path/to/repo are at least different hard drives, otherwise it doesn't make that much sense to do that.
Here are two options:
You can directly take a tar of the git repo directory as it has the whole bare contents of the repo on server. There is a slight possibility that somebody may be working on repo while taking backup.
The following command will give you the bare clone of repo (just like it is in server), then you can take a tar of the location where you have cloned without any issue.
git clone --bare {your backup local repo} {new location where you want to clone}
If it is on Github, Navigate to bitbucket and use "import repository" method to import your github repo as a private repo.
If it is in bitbucket, Do the otherway around.
It's a full backup but stays in the cloud which is my ideal method.
As far as i know you can just make a copy of the directory your repo is in, that's it!
cp -r project project-backup
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5578270/fully-backup-a-git-repo