DbBackupRails

This simple gem creates database dump files on the local filesystem. The authors use it to enable consistent nightly database backups on cloud servers.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'db_backup_rails'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install db_backup_rails

Add the following to your Rakefile:

require 'db_backup_rails/tasks'

This gem provides backup:db and backup:db:prune rake tasks.

bundle exec rake backup:db
bundle exec rake backup:db:prune

Please note that the default dir has changed in 1.0.0!

This defaults to using a directory at [Rails.root]/../../shared/backup, which works well with Capistrano's standard directory structure. You can override it by setting BACKUP_DIR. If BACKUP_DIR is relative, it will be relative to Rails.root. E.g.

BACKUP_DIR=tmp/backup bundle exec rake backup:db

will back up to [Rails.root]/tmp/backup.

BACKUP_DIR applies to all provided tasks.

backup:db:prune keeps 7 versions by default. You can override this with NUMBER_TO_KEEP, e.g.

NUMBER_TO_KEEP=30 bundle exec rake backup:db:prune

As with most rake tasks, you can specify RAILS_ENV if you want to operate on an environment other than development.

• Only works on Unix-y systems

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request