I have a number of git repos that the original developers deleted - because I sync’d them to a usb stick with gitea. I think that is how you have to do it - never entrust a service, especially a free one, with your only copy of anything you value.

If the YouTube algorithm nukes your account and all your videos, you should be ready to upload them to a new account. Same with anything else digital.

My current is standard is one copy in AWS S3 which is super reliable but too pricy for daily use, and one copy in Cloudflare R2 or Backblaze B2 which might or might not be reliable (time will tell) but is hella cheap for daily use.

capableweb

> because I sync’d them to a usb stick with gitea

Just a tip: no need to use gitea if you want to replicate a git repository to somewhere else on disk/other disk.

Just do something like this:

    mkdir /media/run/usb-drive/my-backup-repo
    (cd /media/run/usb-drive/my-backup-repo && git init)
    git remote add backup /media/run/usb-drive/my-backup-repo
    git push backup master

And now you have a new repository at /media/run/usb-drive/my-backup-repo with a master branch :) It's just a normal git repository, that you also can push to over just the filesystem

benatkin

Have you tried running gitea? It's very light on resources, has good documentation, and also defualts to a main branch. It's also very easy to control where all the data is stored, and works well w/ sqlite.

neodon

You can change the default default branch on GitHub via <https://github.com/settings/repositories>.

I believe new GitHub accounts now have that set to main.