On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Karthik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does this mean i have been asking "Dumb Questions"
There is a difference between "dumb" and "not smart".
> and the form is for asking smart Questions only...
No, but you'll generally get better answers if you ask your questions
in a smart way. See, one answer to your question could be
<copy todir="${backup}">
<fileset dir="${deploy}"/>
</copy>
which assumes a bunch of things:
* the server you deploy to is local
* you have a property pointing to the directory you've deployed to
* there actually is such a directory. Some application servers deploy
war files without exploding them, so there is no directory to start
from. Actually, I'm assuming here that you mean "deploying a web
application to an application server" when you say deploy.
* with backup you mean simply copying the stuff to a save place, you
already have that save place, it is a local directory and you have a
property pointing to it.
Instead of my last assumption I could also assume you need a backup
for each new deployment in form of a timestamped zip file in which
case a better answer would be
<tstamp/>
<zip destfile="${backups}/${DSTAMP}-${TSTAMP}.zip">
<fileset dir="${deploy}"/>
</zip>
If any of my assumptions is wrong, my answer is worthless for you -
and I have spent five minutes writing it. The less things the people
who want to help must assume, the better.
Stefan
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