Dumping all the sql statements as backup

[Robert Miles]

On 7/25/2012 8:56 AM, andrea crotti wrote:
> I have some long running processes that do very long simulations which
> at the end need to write things on a database.
>
> At the moment sometimes there are network problems and we end up with
> half the data on the database.
>
> The half-data problem is probably solved easily with sessions and
> sqlalchemy (a db-transaction), but still we would like to be able to
> keep a backup SQL file in case something goes badly wrong and we want to
> re-run it manually..
>
> This might also be useful if we have to rollback the db for some reasons
> to a previous day and we don't want to re-run the simulations..
>
> Anyone did something similar?
> It would be nice to do something like:
>
> with CachedDatabase('backup.sql'):
>      # do all your things

I'm now starting to do something similar, but in C, not Python.
Apparently not using SQL.

The simulations this is for often last a month or more.