Still uses os.system about django-dbdump

[sumpfralle]

Indeed, it seems to be a pityful situation :(
While looking for an alternative, I found django-dbbackup project (even including media backup).

[robvdl]

The reason I mentioned this is because I was about to start using this library but dropped it pretty quickly due to not having had a release for years and the 1.1 release on pypi is broken (issue with mixed tab characters), master has been fixed but several years later and still no pypi release, this project seems well and truely dead I'm afraid, which is sad as that leads to forks being published on pypi instead and generates a bit of a mess.

I ended up doing it myself in the end, you can just do something like this:

with open(dump_filename, 'w') as dump_file:
    subprocess.call(command, stdout=dump_file)

No need to use os.system here, you can pipe straight to the output file (I am using pg_dump and doing a binary dump).

Also a backup should contain the media directory in my mind as well as a db dump, a proper backup of a Django site contains both a db dump and media directory, though I can understand not everyone needs this, which is why I ended up doing my own thing in the end.

[robvdl]

Nice I ended up rolling my own solution but I'll star that project for later.