A month ago I discovered rSync (Wikipedia) it made the deployment of websites so much easier for me!! The nice thing is it only transfers the files you’ve changed. That’s much faster that copying all the files over FTP.
I made a video of the deployment of my latest project;
What it does:
If you want this for yourself check the basic version of the script below; (If you want to backup a MySQL server like I do, contact me)
#!/bin/sh path="/Users/jankees/Documents/work/Blond/frontend/web/" exclude_path="/Users/jankees/Documents/work/Blond/rsync/" online_path="~/base42.nl/subdomains/projects/blond/flash/" mysqldump_path="/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/mysqldump" mysqldumpsql_path="/Users/jankees/Documents/work/Blond/backend/sql" svn_path="/opt/subversion/bin/svn" echo "" echo "------------------------------------------" echo "- website syncing tool version 0.5" echo "- Jankees van Woezik 2008" echo "------------------------------------------" echo "" echo "------------------------------------------" echo "- VARIABLES:" echo "- exclude: ${exclude_path}" echo "- local storage path: ${path}" echo "- online storage path: ${online_path}" echo "- mysqldumppath: ${mysqldump_path}" echo "- local sql path: ${mysqldumpsql_path}" echo "------------------------------------------" echo "" echo "Let's start." echo "" echo "------------------------------------------" echo "- Do some rSync? [yes/no]:" read do_rsync if [ $do_rsync = "yes" ]; then rsync --recursive --checksum --progress --compress --update --delete -e ssh \ $path \ user@yourdomein.com:"${online_path}" else echo "- Skipping rSync.." fi echo "" echo "------------------------------------------"
If you don’t like the terminal check arSync.
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