nixjobin/bitbucket-backup

Backup all your Bitbucket Repositories with this Shell Script. No extra packages needed.

ShellGPL-3.0

Bitbucket Backup

Backup all your Bitbucket Repositories with this Shell Script. No extra packages needed.

Features

This shell script will do a bare-clone on your all repositries.
Backup will be stored on the backloc location specified on the script.
You can add a cron on the server for desired interval.
We recommemnd Generating App Password which will have only read access to your account

How to Configure

Download the latest release from github to the backup server.

cd /usr/local/src && wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/redhatjobin/bitbucket-backup/master/bitbucket-backup.sh

Open the file bitbucket-backup.sh and add the below variables.

bbuser='Username_here' #Bitbucket USERNAME from https://bitbucket.org/USERNAME/reponame. Email id will not work as username.
  bbpass='password_here'      # Password or App Password
  backloc="/backups/bitbucket" #backup location on this system

How to Create an App Password

Go to https://bitbucket.org/account/user/USERNAME/app-passwords , click Generate App Password
Give Read Permissions to Account, Team , Projects, Repositories

How to add cron

You can run crontab -e command to edit the contab. You can add the cron under any user.
The below cron sample will run the backup at 3 AM every day.

 0 3 * * * /usr/local/src/bitbucket-backup.sh