Backing up files and database better in Ant or Ruby?

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I am looking to write some basic scripts to back-up various files and
databases as well as restore them. Do you think this would be easier
and better to do using Ant or Ruby?

I would appreciate any insight available.

Thanks!

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Probably Ruby. Less angle-brackets.

-austin

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On 6/16/05, vike84 <mhust6@gmail.com> wrote:

I am looking to write some basic scripts to back-up various files and
databases as well as restore them. Do you think this would be easier
and better to do using Ant or Ruby?

I would appreciate any insight available.

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I am looking to write some basic scripts to back-up various files and
databases as well as restore them. Do you think this would be easier
and better to do using Ant or Ruby?

Where do you want to back them up to?

I would appreciate any insight available.

I use sh heavily for doing backups, for example, I have scripts run via cron to make mysql and svn repo backups, and a separate job to expire old backups (via find -delete). Then I back the whole thing up with amanda, which uses plain 'ol dump.

Doing that in ruby/ant would involve too much extra typing (for me).

rsync can also be very helpful, I use that to make remote copies of amanda's disk 'tapes'.

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On 16 Jun 2005, at 14:50, vike84 wrote:

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vike84 wrote:

I am looking to write some basic scripts to back-up various files and
databases as well as restore them. Do you think this would be easier
and better to do using Ant or Ruby?

What about rsync (maybe driven by a ruby script)?

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vike84 said:

I am looking to write some basic scripts to back-up various files and
databases as well as restore them. Do you think this would be easier
and better to do using Ant or Ruby?

I'm about to give myself a web presence as well as do some Rails
development, and I'm curious about this as well. I personally wouldn't use
Ant, but I'd like to hear what the overall consensus is on doing backups,
i.e. what software to use, where to backup to, what schedule etc. I'll do
some searching online as well, but it would be nice if there was a
standard "Ruby" way of doing this, particularly when dealing with Rails
projects.

Maybe an elegant, super easy to use Ruby backup library/system would be a
nice project for someone.

Ryan

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Ryan Leavengood wrote:

Maybe an elegant, super easy to use Ruby backup library/system would be a
nice project for someone.

Hm, a ruby binding to rsync (or similar functionality implemented in pure ruby) would be nice...

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Ryan Leavengood wrote:

vike84 said:

I am looking to write some basic scripts to back-up various files and
databases as well as restore them. Do you think this would be easier
and better to do using Ant or Ruby?

I'm about to give myself a web presence as well as do some Rails
development, and I'm curious about this as well. I personally wouldn't use
Ant, but I'd like to hear what the overall consensus is on doing backups,
i.e. what software to use, where to backup to, what schedule etc. I'll do
some searching online as well, but it would be nice if there was a
standard "Ruby" way of doing this, particularly when dealing with Rails
projects.

Rule #1 is to keep anything remotely important in CVS (or SVN, etc.)
Rule #2 is to backup CVSROOT, if nothing else.

I tend to use rsync and xxcopy.

Maybe an elegant, super easy to use Ruby backup library/system would be a
nice project for someone.

There are numerous articles on the Web about doing this, and they are all fairly simple. It might be handy, though, to have a Ruby wrapper around certain tools (cpio or tar or rsync) so that they take blocks using parameters that look more like plain English (or whatever one speaks besides Ruby).

But generally one need only understand enough to get a proper script, then run it.

James

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