Backup of private organization does nothing, no errors

github-backup <NAME> --private --organization --output-directory ~/gitbak --all

Retrieving repositories
Filtering repositories
Backing up repositories
Retrieving <NAME> starred repositories
Writing 0 starred repositories to disk
Retrieving <NAME> watched repositories
Writing 0 watched repositories to disk

$ tree ~/gitbak/
/home/user/gitbak/
└── account
    ├── starred.json
    └── watched.json

1 directory, 2 files

I would also be nice to have a --debug option for additional output of what is going on. I can clone our repos via ssh just fine. leaving out the ssh option did not make a difference.

I started adding some logging info to debug this, turns out the request returns back an empty list, []. Turns out -u is required, but not checked for. Which then prompts for a password, which it should not if I issued to prefer ssh

bin/github-backup -u user <NAME>--prefer-ssh --private --organization --output-directory ~/gitbak --all
Backing up user <NAME> to /home/user/gitbak
Retrieving repositories
Password:

If -u is left out, getpasswd should be used to obtain the current user.

Ok works with a token, all of which these things should be checked for at runtime. Is there no other way?

@mtdeguzis If you set --user, you probably also want to set --password (its for basic auth). The alternative is to use a token, as you found. getpasswd isnt a good alternative here because your local username probably does not match your github username (mine doesn't).

I suppose if we set the --private flag, we should also check for auth. Mind making a pull request for that?

I could probably take a look at add the check. I'll look at submitting a PR.

Actually, this checks for the pw, so nothing to do here:

github-backup ORG -u mtdeguzis --prefer-ssh --private --organization --output-directory ~/gitbak --all

We actually need to check for user. If that is left out, the program kicks of as if nothing is wrong. But I get what you mean, get_auth can be issued if --private is used.

How about..

350 def retrieve_data(args, template, query_args=None, single_request=False):
351     auth = get_auth(args)
352     if not auth and args.private:
353         sys.exit("Authentication is required for private repositories")
354     query_args = get_query_args(query_args)
355     per_page = 100
356     page = 0
357     data = []

... when a user attempts to retrieve data from a private repository?

Backing up user ORG to /home/mtdeguzis/gitbak
Retrieving repositories
Authentication is required for private repositories (token or password)

Hello! It would be nice to add authentication by the ssh key (without password)

@breezzz

@breezzz pull request welcome.

This looks done with #74?

That was never merged.

Derp, somehow missed that. Should this be implemented as a failure or a warning? I am thinking similar to this:

python-github-backup/bin/github-backup

Line 539 in 89ee22c

    
           log_warning('Authenticated user is different from user being backed up, thus private repositories cannot be accessed')

warning is fine.

@josegonzalez

@josegonzalez this can be closed. Addressed by aba048a in PR #461

Navigation Menu

Repository navigation

Backup of private organization does nothing, no errors #72

Metadata

Assignees

Labels

Projects

Milestone

Relationships

Development

Backup of private organization does nothing, no errors #72

Description

Activity

asdf1234-deleted commented on Nov 27, 2017

asdf1234-deleted commented on Nov 27, 2017

josegonzalez commented on Nov 27, 2017

asdf1234-deleted commented on Nov 28, 2017

asdf1234-deleted commented on Nov 28, 2017

asdf1234-deleted commented on Nov 28, 2017

breezzz commented on Feb 12, 2018

josegonzalez commented on Feb 12, 2018

whwright commented on Dec 27, 2018

josegonzalez commented on Dec 27, 2018

whwright commented on Dec 27, 2018

josegonzalez commented on Dec 28, 2018

Iamrodos commented on Dec 7, 2025

Metadata

Metadata

Assignees

Labels

Projects

Milestone

Relationships

Development

Issue actions