Frequently Asked Questions

Popular questions

• Can I protect several DevOps tools and/or organizations?
• I expect to have a complete SaaS solution. Can I back up my SaaS/Self hosted services?
• Can I store a backup in multiple locations? Meet 3-2-1 rule?
• Can I use GitProtect to migrate data and backup?
• How can GitProtect fulfill my need for ultra-privacy?
• Can GitProtect be used to protect a constantly growing DevOps environment?
• How can GitProtect help to meet security/data protection requirements?
• Service infrastructure downtime – what are available DR scenarios?
• What data GitProtect has access to?
• How does GitProtect support enterprise security requirements?

Storage and storage security

• Where will the data be stored when using GitProtect Cloud storage?
• What would be the maximum storage size provided by the cloud offering?
• What is the level of protection offered by GitProtect Cloud storage and how secure is it?
• Can I store copies on my own storage?
• How many storages can I have?

Deployment

• What is the difference between SaaS and On-Premise deployment?
• Is storage related to the deployment model?
• What kind of privileges require GitProtect.io from each Git hosting service provider?

Backup performance

• Why backup GitHub / Bitbucket or GitLab repositories and metadata?
• What is included in backups?
• Can I backup both cloud-hosted and self-hosted GitHub/Bitbucket services?
• Can I backup only selected repos and metadata?
• Can I backup more than 20000 repos?
• Can I backup multiple organizations within one GitProtect.io account?
• What settings does the backup plan include?
• What are the backup schedule settings? How often can I perform backups?
• Do you support incremental and differential backups?
• Can the new repository be automatically included in the backup plan?
• What are the retention and versioning settings?
• How to use retention and versioning when using GitProtect and S3 storage?
• Can I use GitProtect.io for the repository archive?
• What is the GFS rotation scheme and when should I use it?
• Does GitProtect.io compress my data?
• What are the possibilities in terms of notification methods?
• How does Gitprotect.io handle bandwidth throttling?

Data restore

• How can I restore data?
• Do I need to restore all the data?
• Can I recover my repos to a different Bitbucket/GitHub/GitLab organization?
• How can I restore data if GitHub/Bitbucket is not available?