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Repository Backups
Problem to solve
Quick and easy backup of projects in bare repository form (Git history only).
Intended users
Project users and owners.
Further details
- Easy to make a backup (is a user friendly process)
- A backup is created in under a minute (for a small sized project)
- The Zip file format is used for file compression
Proposal
Add a standard option for each project that includes a Backup Repository button. When the Backup Repository button is clicked a bare version of the repository is created, which is compressed into a Zip file that is downloaded to a local device (eg desktop or laptop).
Permissions and Security
All users that can access a repository should be able to do a backup.
What does success look like, and how can we measure that?
When the Backup Repository button is clicked a Zip file is created which contains a bare version of the repository, and the file exists as a downloaded file in storage on a local device. The extracted file contains only Git history for the repository.
Edited by Nick Apperley