Suggestion: use Github actions to execute backup & commit changes to the repository
Stvad opened this issue · 8 comments
The alternative backup implementation: https://github.com/signalnerve/roam-backup does that, and it seems like a pretty great way to go about - it's free & there are already workflow templates to checkout/update repository.
https://github.com/elstudio/actions-js-build/tree/master/commit has an example workflow
this is close to working
name: "Roam Research backup"
on:
push:
branches:
- master
schedule:
- cron: "*/10 * * * *"
jobs:
backup:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
name: Backup
timeout-minutes: 15
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v2
- name: Set up Python 3.8
uses: actions/setup-python@v1
with:
python-version: 3.8
- name: Setup dependencies
run: |
pip install git+https://github.com/MatthieuBizien/roam-to-git.git
- name: Run backup
run: roam-to-git --skip-git .
env:
ROAMRESEARCH_USER: ${{ secrets.roamEmail }}
ROAMRESEARCH_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.roamPassword }}
ROAMRESEARCH_DATABASE: ${{ secrets.roamDatabase }}
- name: Commit changes
uses: elstudio/actions-js-build/commit@v3
with:
commitMessage: Automated snapshot
it actually does work it seems. An interesting story - got a bunch more things on markdown export when running from Github actions vs running locally on mac. suspect it's related to case-insensitivity of mac FS. Something to consider
That was something I wanted to do, thanks for the help! Very good point about case sensitivity.
I think this needs an example repo & readme before being properly "completed" :)
Ah missed the commit - added some comments to it
Also I think it should be possible to have this based off public repo, (but pushing things to the private one). To allow easier setup and stay within limits of actions usage
Fixed in 6a8794b. Your last point is interesting, but I'm not sure how to do it. I think it's worth a new issue 😃