A little Ruby script for backing up *all* of the repos on your GitHub account with a single command

gitback.rb

#gitback 0.1
#usage: sudo ruby gitback.rb
#credits: walter white, minor changes: addy osmani
#!/usr/bin/env ruby

# dependencies
require "yaml"
require "open-uri"

time = Time.new
# feel free to edit this as you please
backupDirectory = "/backups/github.com/#{time.year}.#{time.month}.#{time.day}"

# your github username
username = "addyosmani"

#repositories =
# .map{|r| %Q[#{r[:name]}] }

#FileUtils.mkdir_p #{backupDirectory}

YAML.load(open("http://github.com/api/v2/yaml/repos/show/#{username}"))['repositories'].map{|repository|

    puts "discovered repository: #{repository[:name]} ... backing up ..."
    #exec
    system "git clone [email protected]:#{username}/#{repository[:name]}.git #{backupDirectory}/#{repository[:name]}"
}

misch.md

and if you just want a quick way to list all your repos this might be useful:

#replace 'addyosmani' with your username:
ruby -ryaml -ropen-uri -e "puts YAML.load(open('http://github.com/api/v2/yaml/repos/show/addyosmani'))['repositories'].map {|r| %Q[* **#{r[:name]}** (#{r[:description]}) is at <#{r[:url]}/>] }"