NAME

    Github::Backup - Back up your Github repositories and/or issues locally

SYNOPSIS

        github_backup \
            --user stevieb9 \
            --token 003e12e0780025889f8da286d89d144323c20c1ff7 \
            --dir /home/steve/github_backup \
            --repos \
            --issues
    
        # You can store the token in an environment variable as opposed to sending
        # it on the command line
    
        export GITHUB_TOKEN=003e12e0780025889f8da286d89d144323c20c1ff7
    
        github_backup -u stevieb9 -d ~/github_backup -r

DESCRIPTION

    The cloud is a wonderful thing, but things do happen. Use this
    distribution to back up all of your Github repositories and/or issues
    to your local machine for both assurance of data accessibility due to
    outage, data loss, or just simply off-line use.

COMMAND LINE USAGE

 -u | --user

    Mandatory: Your Github username.

 -t | --token

    Mandatory: Your Github API token. If you wish to not include this on
    the command line, you can put the token into the GITHUB_TOKEN
    environment variable.

 -d | --dir

    Mandatory: The backup directory where your repositories and/or issues
    will be stored. The format of the directory structure will be as
    follows:

        backup_dir/
            - issues/
                - repo1/
                    - issue_id_x
                    - issue_id_y
                - repo2/
                    - issue_id_a
            - repo1/
                - repository data
            - repo2/
                - repository data

    The repositories are stored as found on Github. The issues are stored
    in JSON format.

 -r | --repos

    Optional: Back up all of your repositories found on Github.

    Note that either --repos or --issues must be sent in.

 -i | --issues

    Optional: Back up all of your issues across all of your Github
    repositories.

    Note that either --issues or --repos must be sent in.

 -p | --proxy

    Optional: Send in a proxy in the format https://proxy.example.com:PORT
    and we'll use this to do our fetching.

 -h | --help

    Display the usage information page.

MODULE METHODS

 new

    Instantiates and returns a new Github::Backup object.

    Parameters:

  api_user

    Mandatory, String: Your Github username.

  token

    Mandatory, String: Your Github API token. Note that if you do not wish
    to store this in code, you can put it into the GITHUB_TOKEN environment
    variable, and we'll read it in from there instead.

  dir

    Mandatory, String: The directory that you wish to store your downloaded
    Github information to.

  proxy

    Optional, String: Send in a proxy in the format
    https://proxy.example.com:PORT and we'll use this to do our fetching.

 repos

    Takes no parameters. Backs up all of your Github repositories, and
    stores them in the specified backup directory.

 issues

    Takes no parameters. Backs up all of your Github issues. Stores them
    per-repo within the /backup_dir/issues directory.

FUTURE DIRECTION

    - Slowly, I will add new functionality such as backing up *all* Github
    data, as well as provide the ability to restore to Github the various
    items.

    - Add more tests. Usually I don't release a distribution with such few
    tests, but in this case I have. I digress.

AUTHOR

    Steve Bertrand, <steveb at cpan.org>

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

    Copyright 2017,2018 Steve Bertrand.

    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
    under the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published
    by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License.

    See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.