If I did copy and paste my project folder into a flash drive, and then after the restore i paste it back on the harddrive, would it still work though? can i just run a rake db:migrate and then everything will get migrated? or no?
On May 10, 5:21 pm, Colin Law <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10 May 2010 22:14, David Zhu <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 > > > But i need to restore the system, stuff isn't working right after the > > update > > > so I need to backup my rails project. > > > Would a copy and paste onto a flashdrive work? What about all my > > migrated database tables? > > > What is the best way to back up a rails project? Can i just copy and > > paste everything? Would that save it? Thanks > > That will save the sources, but it would be much better to have the > sources in a version control system such as git, then you just need to > backup the repository. > > You also need to dump the contents of the database, which depends on > the db type. > > After backing up make sure you can restore it and that it runs (and > tests pass) before erasing the originals. > > Colin > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
