# Copyright Dimitar Dimitrov, 2011 desc "Generates an SQL dump of the production database in the destination path provided as an argument." task :backup, [:destination] => :environment do |t, args| conf = ActiveRecord::Base.connection.instance_variable_get :@config cmd = "PGPASSWORD=#{conf[:password]} pg_dump -U #{conf[:username]} --inserts #{conf[:database]} -p #{conf[:port]} -h #{conf[:host]} > #{args.destination}" silent = Rake.application.options.silent puts "Backing up '#{conf[:database]}' into: #{args.destination}" unless silent if system(cmd) puts 'Backup completed.' unless silent else puts "Backup failed!\nCommand exit status: #{$?}\nCommand was: #{cmd}" end end