Welcome to SCM Backup’s documentation!

SCM Backup is a tool which makes offline backups of your cloud hosted source code repositories, by cloning them.

• Source code
• Website
• Download latest release

It’s written in .NET Core, which means it’s supposed to run on Windows, Linux and MacOS.

Contents:

• Introduction
  • How does it work?
• Installation
  • System Requirements
  • Download
  • How to run
• Configuration
  • General Options
  • Sources
  • Authentication
• Getting SCM Backup’s output
  • Logging
  • Emailing output
  • Exit code
• Restoring your backups
  • Folder structure
  • How to restore
• How to Contribute
  • Contribute to the application
  • Contribute to the documentation
  • Making a new release
• Legal Stuff
  • License
  • Acknowledgements
• FAQ
  • Why doesn’t SCM Backup support backing up local installations of [hoster X]?
• Info for Bitbucket Backup users
  • Setup
  • Configuration
  • Emailing output