backup_fu on Windows

backup_fu is a nice Rails plugin to backup all your data to an S3 account. Sadly, it currently doesn’t work on windows.

Two bugs prevent it to run smoothly, first it depends on tar and gzip commands, which are not always available on that platform. Even though there are some native implementations, I’ve never found a tar one that I could actually use, most of them just fail at archiving big files. I’ve fixed this using the minitar gem to generate a tar.gz file from the sql dump.

On the other hand, there is an aws-s3 bug that prevents files to be directly passed to the store() method to upload the files. Fixing this was just a matter to read the file using ‘rb’ parameters for File.open().

You can see this and this commit with the changes, a pull request has already been sent.