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Git Backup Guide: how to protect GitHub, Bitbucket and GitLab data

If your organization uses GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket, you probably are aware that code is the most valuable asset inside your company. This document describes all you need to know about protecting your repos and metadata! Learn about risks, available backup options, and git backup strategy.

This guide covers:

How to ensure cyber resilience for GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket data
How to mitigate cyber risks: outages, ransomware and more
What are the Git backup best practices

Dive deep into Git backup and cyber resilience

Why to backup git data
Shared Responsibility Model, outages, human error, ransomware - the list of potential threats is much longer
Git backup options
Third-party automatic repository backup vs. managing your own scripts - pros and cons
Git backup strategy
What to consider while planning your git repository backup strategy and do not miss anything!

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GitHub Terms of Service

You understand that use of the cloud products necessarily involves transmission of your data over networks that we do not own, operate or control, and we are not responsible for any of your data lost, altered, intercepted or stored across such networks. We cannot guarantee that our security procedures will be error-free, that transmissions of your data will always be secure or that unauthorized third parties will never be able to defeat our security measures or those of our third party service providers.

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Atlassian Security Practices

We do not use these backups to revert customer-initiated destructive changes, such as fields overwritten using scripts, or deleted issues, projects, or sites. To avoid data loss, we recommend making regular backups.

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GitLab Subscription Agreement

Customer is responsible for implementing and maintaining privacy protections and security measures for components that Customer provides and controls.

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Atlassian Customer Agreement

(...) neither party will have any liability arising out of or related to this Agreement for any loss of use, lost data, lost profits, interruption of business or any indirect, special, incidental, reliance or consequential damages of any kind, even if informed of their possibility in advance.

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Microsoft Terms of Use

In no event shall Microsoft and/or its respective suppliers be liable for any special, indirect or consequential damages or any damages whatsoever resulting from loss of use, data or profits, whether in an action of contract, negligence or other tortious action, arising out of or in connection with the use or performance of software, documents, provision of or failure to provide services, or information available from the services.

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