This is a handy tool to mirror and keep updated all GitHub repositories owned by a given user into a local directory. Usage:

github-sync.py --user USERNAME --directory ~/repositories/

To keep your repositories up-to-date, run this program regularly in cron. It will pick up new repositories automatically, but it will not delete repositories that cease to exist on GitHub. By default, it will not mirror repos that are forks of other repos. If you redirect stdout to /dev/null, github-sync.py should be silent except for errors, which go to stderr.

Reminder: do you know who owns your availability?