A few updates to backup_fu

Posted on February 18, 2008

I’d like to give a special thanks to those who commented on the release of backup_fu—especially for all of the positive feedback.

In this release, the following features were added:

- PostgreSQL dump support
- Ability to supply your own custom MySQL dump options (config key 'mysqldump_options')
- Backup_fu now checks your ENV variables for AMAZON_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AMAZON_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY;  if found, it uses these instead of requiring them in config/backup_fu.yml.

Since this is a minor release, there’s probably no need to update if you’ve already got v1.0 working like a charm.

For those who haven’t played with backup_fu, click here for the full scoop.

Thanks also to Toby Hede and Ralph Churchill for submitting patches.

Toby’s added the ability to support user-supplied mysqldump options; Ralph’s for PostgreSQL dump support.

Also hat tip to nick for suggesting the ENV variable support.

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Comments
  1. Lenart – February 21, 2008 @ 07:18 AM

    Great work on the plugin! I was wondering if there is a way to get it working in a way that it would only dump the SQL database and store it somewhere (localy or on some FTP server)?

    Unfortunately I don’t own Amazon’s S3 account :(