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damien / backup.rake

Created January 11, 2009 02:18

Collection of useful rake tasks for rails applications.

	require 'find'

	namespace :db do
	desc "Backup the database to a file. Options: DIR=base_dir RAILS_ENV=production MAX=20"
	task :backup => [:environment] do
	datestamp = Time.now.strftime("%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S")
	base_path = ENV["DIR"] \|\| "db"
	backup_base = File.join(base_path, 'backup')
	backup_folder = File.join(backup_base, datestamp)
	backup_file = File.join(backup_folder, "#{RAILS_ENV}_dump.sql.gz")