diff --git a/bin/github-backup b/bin/github-backup
index 0996092..0245ba1 100755
--- a/bin/github-backup
+++ b/bin/github-backup
@@ -40,16 +40,17 @@ FNULL = open(os.devnull, 'w')
 
 
 def log_error(message):
-    if type(message) == str:
-        message = [message]
-
-    for msg in message:
-        sys.stderr.write("{0}\n".format(msg))
-
+    """
+    Log message (str) or messages (List[str]) to stderr and exit with status 1
+    """
+    log_warning(message)
     sys.exit(1)
 
 
 def log_info(message):
+    """
+    Log message (str) or messages (List[str]) to stdout
+    """
     if type(message) == str:
         message = [message]
 
@@ -57,6 +58,17 @@ def log_info(message):
         sys.stdout.write("{0}\n".format(msg))
 
 
+def log_warning(message):
+    """
+    Log message (str) or messages (List[str]) to stderr
+    """
+    if type(message) == str:
+        message = [message]
+
+    for msg in message:
+        sys.stderr.write("{0}\n".format(msg))
+
+
 def logging_subprocess(popenargs,
                        logger,
                        stdout_log_level=logging.DEBUG,
@@ -513,7 +525,6 @@ def check_git_lfs_install():
     exit_code = subprocess.call(['git', 'lfs', 'version'])
     if exit_code != 0:
         log_error('The argument --lfs requires you to have Git LFS installed.\nYou can get it from https://git-lfs.github.com.')
-        sys.exit(1)
 
 
 def retrieve_repositories(args, authenticated_user):
@@ -524,8 +535,8 @@ def retrieve_repositories(args, authenticated_user):
         template = 'https://{0}/user/repos'.format(
             get_github_api_host(args))
     else:
-        if args.private:
-            log_error('Authenticated user is different from user being backed up, thus private repositories cannot be accessed')
+        if args.private and not args.organization:
+            log_warning('Authenticated user is different from user being backed up, thus private repositories cannot be accessed')
         template = 'https://{0}/users/{1}/repos'.format(
             get_github_api_host(args),
             args.user)