namespace :db do task :backup_name, :roles => :db, :only => { :primary => true } do now = Time.now run "mkdir -p #{shared_path}/db_backups" backup_time = [now.year,now.month,now.day,now.hour,now.min,now.sec].join('-') set :backup_file, "#{shared_path}/db_backups/#{rails_env}-snapshot-#{backup_time}.sql" end desc "Backup your MySQL database to shared_path/db_backups" task :dump, :roles => :db, :only => { :primary => true } do backup_name run("cat #{shared_path}/config/database.yml") {|channel, stream, data| @environment_info = YAML.load(data)[rails_env] } run "mysqldump --add-drop-table -u #{@environment_info['username']} -p #{@environment_info['database']} | bzip2 -c > #{backup_file}.bz2" do |ch, stream, out | ch.send_data "#{@environment_info['password']}\n" if out=~ /^Enter password:/ end end desc "Sync your production database to your local workstation" task :copy_to_local, :roles => :db, :only => { :primary => true } do backup_name dump get "#{backup_file}.bz2", "tmp/#{application}.sql.bz2" end end