Backing up files and database better in Ant or Ruby?

[vike84]

I am looking to write some basic scripts to back-up various files and
databases as well as restore them. Do you think this would be easier
and better to do using Ant or Ruby?

I would appreciate any insight available.

Thanks!

 

[Austin Ziegler]

I am looking to write some basic scripts to back-up various files and
databases as well as restore them. Do you think this would be easier
and better to do using Ant or Ruby?
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I would appreciate any insight available.

Probably Ruby. Less angle-brackets.

-austin
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Austin Ziegler * (e-mail address removed)
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[Eric Hodel]

I am looking to write some basic scripts to back-up various files and
databases as well as restore them. Do you think this would be easier
and better to do using Ant or Ruby?

Where do you want to back them up to?

I would appreciate any insight available.

I use sh heavily for doing backups, for example, I have scripts run
via cron to make mysql and svn repo backups, and a separate job to
expire old backups (via find -delete). Then I back the whole thing
up with amanda, which uses plain 'ol dump.

Doing that in ruby/ant would involve too much extra typing (for me).

rsync can also be very helpful, I use that to make remote copies of
amanda's disk 'tapes'.

 

[Joel VanderWerf]

I am looking to write some basic scripts to back-up various files and
databases as well as restore them. Do you think this would be easier
and better to do using Ant or Ruby?

What about rsync (maybe driven by a ruby script)?