Yeah, it’s simple but useful. Since I’m using sqlite at the moment, it’s just a copy but you could run any command in a similar way. I’m also tagging the backup name with a date. Here’s a snip from my Capistrano deploy file….
# ...snip... namespace :deploy do task :restart do t=Time.now run "cp /path/to/db.sqlite3 /path/to/backup/#{t.year}-#{t.month}-#{t.day}_#{t.hour}:#{t.min}:#{t.sec}_db.sqlite3" run "touch #{current_path}/tmp/restart.txt" end end |