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Comment on 'Automatically backing up your remote database on deploy' by Ritchie

2007-04-06T02:46:08Z

Nice one, Brandon. Worked a treat. The only thing I had to change was the mysqldump line to:

run "mysqldump -u #{db['username']} --password=#{db['password']} -h #{db['host']} #{db['database']} | bzip2 -c > #{file}"  do |ch, stream, data|

To accomodate the fact that my database (at MediaTemple) isn’t on localhost.

Thanks

Comment on 'Automatically backing up your remote database on deploy' by John Nunemaker

2007-02-09T16:46:12Z

Great idea brandon.

Comment on 'Automatically backing up your remote database on deploy' by Eric Anderson

2007-02-09T15:57:36Z

Nice. I have had this happen myself a few times as well. Bonus points might be to try to catch the failure when it occurs and automatically restore the backup as part of a rollback process.