From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2005-06-17T07:01:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Backing up files and database better in Ant or Ruby?

On 16 Jun 2005, at 14:50, 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?

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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