Datestamped backup of git repositories managed by gitosis
Created:
This is a neat little demonstration of the power of the UNIX pipes.
#!/bin/bash
'''
A script to backup all the git repositories managed by gitosis
and create a date stamped tarball.
Pradeep Gowda
2011-08-19
'''
GITOSISADMIN=$HOME/mycompany/gitosis-admin
GITSERVER="git@gitserver.mycompany.com"
TODAY=`date +%Y-%m-%d`
mkdir gitbackups-$TODAY
grep ^writable $GITOSISADMIN/gitosis.conf | cut -d= -f 2 | tr "\\n" " " | tr " " "\\n" | sort | uniq | xargs -I {} git clone $GITSERVER:{}.git gitbackups/{}
tar czf gitbackups-$TODAY.tgz gitbackups