On May 10, 2:58 pm, David Zhu <[email protected]> wrote: > 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?
What's your database? With mysql, use mysqldump. This will give you a file that will allow restoring the database later. See for example, http://www.webcheatsheet.com/SQL/mysql_backup_restore.php for more details. For other database, search the Internet: "Backup Restore <Your Database>" By the way, make sure you know which gems, including versions, your system has currently as well : "gem list --local" Stephan > 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 > 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.
