= Backup utility for database, folders and files Backs up a MySQL database, folders and files to a default folder (~/backup) or to a specified folder. If the --cron switch is provided the specified database and files are not backed up rather a cron job of the provided command is added to crontab. == Install The application can be installed with $ gem install syc-backup == Usage Backup a database to the default folder _~/backup_ $ sycbackup -d database -uuser -ppass Backup a MySQL database, a directory and files to the default folder $ sycbackup -d database -uuser -ppass -f directory,file1,file2 Specify a backup folder $ sycbackup backup/folder -d database -uuser -ppass -f directory,file1,file2 Override files in the backup folder if they exist $ sycbackup backup/folder --override -f directory,file1,file2 Don't compress the backup $ sycbackup --no-compress -f directory,file1,file2 Create a cron job that is scheduled every day at 2:30 $ sycbackup -d database -uuser -ppass -f directory,file1 --cron 30,2,*,*,* If the user or password contains characters as '(' you have to escape them. A password like 123(56 has to be provided with pass\"123\(56\". == Usage of --override and --no-compress Whether the backup directory and the backup files are time stamped depends how --override and --no-compress is set. The results are shown in the table below. --override --no-compress backup directory backup file(s) 0 0 w/o timestamp w/ timestamp 1 0 w/o timestamp w/ timestamp 0 1 w/ timestamp uncompressed 1 1 w/o timestamp uncompressed == Supported Platform syc-backup has been tested with 1.9.3 == Notes The application backs up the MySQL database with _mysqldump_. The dumpfile has the form yyyymmdd-HHMMSS_databasename.sql. After the files are backed up the dumpfile will be deleted. If the --no-compress is provided the files are copied to the backup folder. Otherwise they are compressed with _tar cfz YYYYmmdd-HHMMSS_syc-backup.tar.gz_. If the --override switch is not provided the backup directory will be added a timestamp. So if you create a cron job you should every now and then delete obsolete backup folders. The source contains lib/backup/file_backup.rb which is not used in the application. == Tests The tests create folders and files and will be deleted after the tests finish. _MySQLBackup_ needs to run a MySQL database with a database _test_ and a user _user_ with the password _pass_. The test files live in the test folder and begin with test_. There is a rake file available which can be used to run all tests with $ rake test == Links * [http://sugaryourcoffee.github.com/syc-backup] - RubyDoc * [http://www.github.com/sugaryourcoffee/syc-backup] - Source code on GitHub * [http://syc.dyndns.org/drupal/content/backup-drupal-database] - Development notebook * [https://rubygems.org/gems/syc-backup] - RubyGems