opatut / dbsnap

Command line utility to quickly snapshot and restore databases (for development)

dbsnap

Installation

1. Clone to somewhere.
2. pip install --user -r requirements.txt
3. Symlink dbsnap.py to your $PATH, e.g. ln -s $PWD/dbsnap.py /usr/local/bin/dbsnap

Usage

1. Set your current database using dbsnap connect, e.g.

   dbsnap connect mysql://user:password@localhost/dbname

   Currently, only mysql is supported. If you leave the password empty (mysql://user:@host...), you'll be prompted for it. If you leave out the colon (mysql://user@host...), no password will be used.

   The full string (including password, if any), will be stored locally in a file (~/.local/share/dbsnap/current).

2. Create a snapshot:

   dbsnap snap

3. Break your database.

4. Restore your snapshot:

   dbsnap restore

   The restore command finds the latest snapshot for the current database. You can pass a name for the snapshot file to snap and restore commands to use a different one. Use dbsnap list to see available snapshots of the current database, and dbsnap clear to remove all of them.

License

This work is licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for details.