Introducing Blanket
Posted by jvanfleet, Thu Mar 06 22:41:27 UTC 2008
Hey, guys! I’m not going to be able to make it on Tuesday even though I’ll be in the area shortly thereafter.
I’d like to introduce you to Blanket, a library designed to make automated, remote backup easier. I’ve had to set up automated backup before, and I wrote this package to make it more enjoyable for myself and others. I was also experimenting with a lot of new technologies and techniques, which makes it even more rewarding that the end product ending being a preliminary success.
The pitch is: go from 0 to backed up in ten minutes plus transfer time. And you can set up as many blankets as you want, to backup a piece of filesystem, a MySQL database, an SVN repository (or Confluence, but I realize not everyone is into that.) After you get it working, it should take no time at all to put it in a cron job. Get your stuff backed up, people! It’s simple now, and I will help.
An introduction to Blanket is available at the excellent GitHub. There’s also the blanket project on RubyForge which means that I also have my first Gem in the wild.
Install it, kick it around, and if you like what you see, take a look at the development road map and see if you’d like to get involved. I have some GitHub invites if you need them, so please contact me if that’s an issue.
