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