Hehe, nice to hear that it worked for you.
One thing i would do is increase the backup time to an hour or even a day - you will populate your vault-history with tons of (most likely meaningless) entrys - but test it out yourself. I started with 5 mins too, and very soon changed to an hour, and now i even considering only once a day.
For easy pulling out a complete “Backup” of your vault at a certain time you have to do the following:
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Go to https://github.com/YOURNAME/YOUR_REPOSITORY or just log in and navigate to it manually.
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You should see something like this:
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Click on the xxx commits part (directly below the green “code” button
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this takes you to your history, you can scroll through it to any time you have pushed an update in the past (you will quickly realize why its not really good practice to update every 5 mins =P )
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Search for the time you want and click on the <> part (right side of the entry)
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it leads to a site that looks pretty similar to the one you first started, difference is you can see the choosen time-stamp at the header… This is your complete backup at this time.
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to download just click on the code button and choose download as zip
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extract the zip
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open the extracted directory from within obsidian as a new vault
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have fun beeing a time-traveler and check out how life was back then XD
