Production Data to Development

December 1st, 2008

It's often helpful to be able to bring MySQL production data down to a development machine. I wanted to do this for my Mephisto blog engine (see gitting Started with Mephisto and Deploying Mephisto with Capistrano to DreamHost) so that I could see how changes would look with existing data before deploying an update. Production data is also useful for tracking down bugs with production data and for backups. This post describes the Capistrano namespace I created for doing this. Read the rest of this entry

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