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layout: ../../layouts/UseCaseIndexLayout.astro
title: "Gitea Mirror Use Cases"
description: "Homelab-friendly playbooks that keep GitHub repos mirrored inside Gitea without promising enterprise guarantees."
canonical: "https://gitea-mirror.com/use-cases/"
---

import { ArrowRight, ShieldAlert, Sparkles, Home } from 'lucide-react';
import { useCases } from '@/lib/use-cases';

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      Built by and for homelab tinkerers
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    <h1 class="mt-6 text-3xl font-bold sm:text-4xl md:text-[2.75rem] md:leading-tight">
      Gitea Mirror in Action: Use Cases for Self-Hosted GitHub Backups
    </h1>
    <p class="mt-4 max-w-3xl text-base sm:text-lg text-muted-foreground">
      Gitea Mirror is an open-source side project. It’s perfect for your homelab, indie dev studio, or early-stage team that
      needs backups and optional failover. There’s <strong class="font-semibold text-foreground">no enterprise SLA</strong>—just
      practical playbooks you can own, fork, and improve.
    </p>

    <div class="mt-6 grid gap-4 sm:grid-cols-2">
      <div class="flex items-start gap-3 rounded-2xl border border-muted bg-background/80 p-4">
        <div>
          <h2 class="!mt-0 text-sm font-semibold uppercase tracking-wide text-foreground/80">Ideal for</h2>
          <p class="mt-1 text-sm text-muted-foreground">
            Homelabbers, solo builders, and scrappy startups that want GitHub peace of mind without managed pricing.
          </p>
        </div>
      </div>
      <div class="flex items-start gap-3 rounded-2xl border border-muted bg-background/80 p-4">
        <div>
          <h2 class="!mt-0 text-sm font-semibold uppercase tracking-wide text-foreground/80">Worth noting</h2>
          <p class="mt-1 text-sm text-muted-foreground">
            Community support only. No compliance guarantees, no 24/7 pager. Kick the tires before depending on it.
          </p>
        </div>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
</section>

<section id="use-cases" class="py-16 sm:py-24 px-4 sm:px-6 lg:px-8">
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      <span class="inline-flex items-center rounded-full border px-3 py-1 text-xs font-semibold uppercase tracking-widest text-muted-foreground mb-4">
        Use Cases
      </span>
      <h2 class="text-2xl sm:text-3xl md:text-4xl font-bold tracking-tight">
        Real-World Gitea Mirror Workflows
      </h2>
      <p class="mt-4 text-base sm:text-lg text-muted-foreground">
        Discover how developers and teams are using Gitea Mirror to create reliable, self-hosted backups of their GitHub repositories. These use cases provide step-by-step instructions for common scenarios.
      </p>
    </div>

    <div class="grid gap-4 sm:gap-6 lg:gap-8 lg:grid-cols-3">
      {useCases.map((useCase) => (
        <article class="group relative flex flex-col rounded-2xl border bg-background/80 p-6 sm:p-8 shadow-sm transition-all duration-300 hover:-translate-y-1 hover:shadow-lg">
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          <div class="relative flex flex-col h-full">
            <h3 class="text-xl font-semibold mb-3">
              {useCase.title}
            </h3>
            <p class="text-sm sm:text-base text-muted-foreground mb-4">
              {useCase.summary}
            </p>

            <dl class="grid gap-3 text-sm sm:text-base text-muted-foreground">
              <div>
                <dt class="font-semibold text-foreground">Pain Point</dt>
                <dd>{useCase.painPoint}</dd>
              </div>
              <div>
                <dt class="font-semibold text-foreground">Outcome</dt>
                <dd>{useCase.outcome}</dd>
              </div>
            </dl>

            <div class="mt-6 flex flex-wrap gap-2">
              {useCase.tags.map((tag) => (
                <span class="inline-flex items-center rounded-full border border-muted px-3 py-1 text-xs font-medium uppercase tracking-wide text-muted-foreground">
                  {tag}
                </span>
              ))}
            </div>

            <a
              href={`/use-cases/${useCase.slug}/`}
              class="mt-auto inline-flex items-center gap-2 pt-6 text-sm font-medium text-primary transition-colors hover:text-primary/80"
            >
              Read the playbook
              <ArrowRight class="h-4 w-4 transition-transform group-hover:translate-x-1" />
            </a>
          </div>
        </article>
      ))}
    </div>
  </div>
</section>

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    <h2 class="text-2xl font-semibold sm:text-3xl">Have a niche workflow?</h2>
    <p class="mt-3 text-sm sm:text-base text-muted-foreground">
      Fork the project, open an issue, or drop a PR. These guides are community-made—just like the tooling behind them.
    </p>
    <a
      href="https://github.com/RayLabsHQ/gitea-mirror"
      class="mt-6 inline-flex items-center gap-2 rounded-full border border-primary/50 bg-background px-5 py-2 text-sm font-semibold text-primary transition-colors hover:bg-primary/10"
    >
      Contribute on GitHub
      <ArrowRight class="h-4 w-4" />
    </a>
  </div>
</section>
