I have the following target:
<target name="backup" description="Backup existing application">
<tstamp>
<format property="deployment.start" pattern="yyyy-MM-dd_HHmm"/>
</tstamp>
<zip destfile="${backup.dir}/${deployment.start}.zip">
<zipfileset dir="${backup.frontend.dir}" prefix="Frontend Files"/>
<zipfileset dir="${backup.backend.dir}" prefix="Backend Files"/>
</zip>
</target>
I run this prior to doing a deployment to ensure we have a backup of
what was on the server in case everything goes wrong.
The property "backup.backend.dir" comes from a property file. The
problem is that I use this script on several different servers and on
some servers several directories need to be backed up. For example, on
our Live server I need to backup servers/MyApp. However, on our User
Acceptance Testing server we have several instances of the application
and all these need to be backed up: servers/MyApp1, servers/MyApp2,
servers/MyApp3.
Is there a neat way of doing this?
e.g. backup.backend.dir=servers/MyApp1:servers/MyApp2:servers/MyApp3
or backup.backend.dir=servers/MyApp*
Cheers again,
David.
