The original title is "When a Git Host Goes Dark: A Practical Backup Plan for Repos"

Short summary

A practical guide to backing up Git repositories against provider outages, covering mirror cloning, cross-provider mirroring, and policy decisions like force vs additive backups. It addresses commonly overlooked details such as Git LFS objects, credential management, and restore testing. The article recommends starting with release-blocking repos and choosing a destination outside the same failure domain.

• •Use git clone --mirror and git push --mirror to create cross-provider backups outside the same failure domain
• •Decide explicitly between force mirror (exact match) and additive backup (preserves deleted/rewritten refs) based on your recovery goals
• •Test restores including Git LFS objects, and prioritize repositories that would block releases if lost

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