Code Trials

If you want to automate the maintenance of your Drupal sites the best tool is drush. It allows you to maintain modules, run sql queries, clear caches, show logs, run cron, and perform unit tests. Nothing more to say, but I only recently found this tool and if you love the command-line like I do this works like a charm.

I used to use zip for backups on our servers. I liked zip because it was fast and easy to use and worked easily on PCs too. Everything was great for a few years until our backups started hitting 2GB then zip did not perform so well. I tried various versions available on Linux and in the end decided it was nightmare trying to read the files. Since then I have changed all my scripts to use compressed tar archives: tar.gz. There appear to be no limitations on the file size with tar.gz, except for the file system itself.