# Duplicating and back up

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/duplicating-and-back-up/133711>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 2, 2008, 10:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/duplicating-and-back-up/133711 "2008-04-02T22:31:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![rashantha](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/b9bd4f/32.png) [@rashantha](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rashantha)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 10:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/duplicating-and-back-up/133711/1 "2008-04-02T22:31:41Z")

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how do you duplicate your entire project?

i would like to have a couple of versions incase i destroy something.

secondly how do you back up your data using postgresql?

weekly back ups

lastly how do you restore?

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**Author:** ![rashantha](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/b9bd4f/32.png) [@rashantha](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rashantha)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 10:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/duplicating-and-back-up/133711/2 "2008-04-02T22:43:29Z")

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On 2 Apr 2008, at 21:31, rashantha wrote:

> how do you duplicate your entire project?
> 
> i would like to have a couple of versions incase i destroy something.

Just stick in source control (svn, git etc…)

Fred

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**Author:** ![rashantha](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/b9bd4f/32.png) [@rashantha](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rashantha)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 10:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/duplicating-and-back-up/133711/3 "2008-04-02T22:54:06Z")

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can you please elaborate.

On Apr 2, 1:42 pm, Frederick C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)

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**Author:** ![rashantha](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/b9bd4f/32.png) [@rashantha](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rashantha)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2008, 10:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/duplicating-and-back-up/133711/4 "2008-04-03T10:28:14Z")

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On 2 Apr 2008, at 21:53, rashantha wrote:

> can you please elaborate.

With source control all changes are tracked and preserve you can  
maintain different branches, rollback to any specific revision etc…  
If you don’t know about it do yourself a favour and read up on it.

Fred