# Process overview

## General information

**GitProtect** is designed to protect **DevOps** ecosystems, including **GitHub**.

To ensure your entire **GitHub** environment is reliably backed up, make sure to include all repositories along with their related metadata — the best practice is to create a backup plan for critical repositories and metadata that change daily (or even more frequently), for example, using the recommended **Grandfather-Father-Son** (**GFS**) rotation scheme.

Additionally, create a separate backup plan for unused repositories that you need to keep for future reference. This type of backup primarily serves **GitHub** archival purposes, and with unlimited retention, you can store your copies for as long as needed — even indefinitely.

You can also delete repositories from your **GitHub** account while keeping a copy in storage, which helps bypass **GitHub** limits.

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## Backup type

**Incremental** and **differential backups** help save storage space. In **GitProtect** you can define different retention and performance settings for each type of backup (**full**, **incremental**, and **differential**). For example, our software allows you to include only the parts of **GitHub** data that have changed since the last backup, reducing storage usage, speeding up the process, and limiting bandwidth.

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## Adding multiple storage instances

Use different types of storage to replicate backups, minimize the risk of outages or disasters, and comply with the **3-2-1 backup rule** (which means having at least **three copies** of your data on **two different storage types**, with at least **one copy** stored in the cloud).

**GitProtect** is a multi-storage system that allows you to store your data:

* [x] In the cloud (**Xopero Cloud Storage**, **AWS S3**, **Wasabi Cloud**, **Backblaze B2**, **Google Cloud Storage**, **Azure Blob Storage**, or any **S3**-compatible public cloud).
* [x] Locally (**NFS**, **CIFS**, **SMB** network shares, or local disk resources).
* [x] In a hybrid or multi-cloud environment.