Backup is a Ruby Gem written for Unix and Rails environments. It can be used both with and without the Ruby on Rails framework! This gem offers a quick and simple solution to backing up databases such as MySQL/PostgreSQL/SQLite and Files/Folders. All backups can be transferred to Amazon S3, Rackspace Cloud Files, any remote server you have access to (using either SCP, SFTP or regular FTP), or a Local server. Backup handles Compression, Archiving, Encryption, Backup Cleaning (Cycling) and supports Email Notifications.
- Amazon S3
- Rackspace Cloud Files
- Remote Server (Available Protocols: SCP, SFTP, FTP)
- Local server (Example Locations: Another Hard Drive, Network path)
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- SQLite
- Archive (Any files and/or folders)
- Custom (Anything you can produce using the command line)
Handles archiving for the Archive and Custom adapters.
Handles encryption of all backups for any adapter. To decrypt a "Backup encrypted file" you can use Backup's built-in utility command:
sudo backup --decrypt /path/to/encrypted/file.enc
With Backup you can very easily specify how many backups you would like to have stored (per backup procedure!) on your Amazon S3, Remote or Local server. When the limit you specify gets exceeded, the oldest backup will automatically be cleaned up.
You will be able to specify whether you would like to be notified by email when a backup successfully been stored. Simply fill in the email configuration block and set "notify" to true inside the backup procedure you would like to be notified of.
backup 'mysql-backup-s3' do
adapter :mysql do
user 'user'
password 'password'
database 'database'
end
storage :s3 do
access_key_id 'access_key_id'
secret_access_key 'secret_access_key'
bucket '/bucket/backups/mysql/'
use_ssl true
end
keep_backups 25
encrypt_with_password 'my_password'
notify true
end
Everything above should be pretty straightforward, so now, using the trigger we specified between
the backup and do you can execute this backup procedure like so:
Rails Environment
rake backup:run trigger=mysql-backup-s3
Unix Environment
sudo backup --run mysql-backup-s3
That's it. This was a simple example of how it works.
http://wiki.github.com/meskyanichi/backup/getting-started-unix
http://wiki.github.com/meskyanichi/backup/getting-started-ruby-on-rails
http://wiki.github.com/meskyanichi/backup/production-mode
http://wiki.github.com/meskyanichi/backup/encrypting-and-decrypting
http://wiki.github.com/meskyanichi/backup/configuration-file
http://wiki.github.com/meskyanichi/backup/utility-commands
http://wiki.github.com/meskyanichi/backup/rake-tasks
http://wiki.github.com/meskyanichi/backup/automatic-backups
http://wiki.github.com/meskyanichi/backup/capistrano-recipes
http://wiki.github.com/meskyanichi/backup/capistrano-whenever
http://wiki.github.com/meskyanichi/backup/the-backup-database
http://wiki.github.com/meskyanichi/backup/troubleshooting
http://wiki.github.com/meskyanichi/backup/requirements
http://wiki.github.com/meskyanichi/backup/resources
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