I posed the following question to Jamis directly, and his response is beneath. I have some follow up questions that I'd like to pose to all--
==== BEGIN MY MESSAGE ===== My scenario is the following. In many projects, it is often desirable to copy production data back to a development copy of an app. This almost always consists of a database dump + filesystem content ( i.e. uploaded images, etc.). Capistrano (appears to) only allow me to work on the remote (i.e. production) machine. What I'd like to do is have tasks (either Rake or Capistrano, unless something else is more suitable) that remote into the production machine and back this data up (simple). I'd furthermore like to automate the copying (scp) of this data back to my dev machine. In my specific scenario, my dev machine is behind a NAT router, so running scp from my dev box is certainly preferable. My plan was to write a rake task that did the following: 1) Exec cap:backup_content 2) scp this content to the local machine Now that I'm thinking about it, I guess I'd also like to have this backed up content deleted from the production server. In my current execution plan (rake task that invokes cap), this would require a second call to capistrano ( i.e. 2 separate ssh's into the production server, which is wasteful). This could be further extended to then re- populate my local production database, etc. Do you have any thoughts/suggestions? I would imagine this to be a very common need, as it is on many of our projects. Thanks for any insight or help you can give! ==== END MY MESSAGE ===== ==== BEGIN JAMIS' REPLY ===== John, In general, I'd recommend that you subscribe to the capistrano mailing list for questions like this. I can't promise I'll be able to answer most queries in a timely fashion if they are directed at me personally. That said, for your question, Capistrano has a "get" helper method for downloading files from the remote host to the local host. so you can do something like this (pseudocode): task :backup_content do run "do_backup_thing > /tmp/backup.tar.bz2" get "/tmp/backup.tar.bz2", "/path/on/local/host/backup.tar.bz2" end - Jamis ==== END JAMIS' REPLY ===== --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/capistrano -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
