So, i was faced with the problem of taking backups to all my projects for purpose of DR. As you can expect, i had a lot of projects nested in groups and Manually cloning every one of them is just not the developer style of doing things. Solution: A small node utility which does exactly that ! STEP 1 goto : https://gitlab.com/profile/personal_access_tokens and get yourself a personal token. Copy that token and keep it handy