A Rails3 compliant gem which provides followings rake tasks

rake handy:db:backup

Creates a dump of data and structure which can been safely backed up. file is backuped at tmp directory like this tmp/2011-02-10-22-05-40.sql.gz

restores the data and structure from file

Restores the data from production database to staging database. More options can be specified.

Creates a backup and then stores that backup on s3.

s3 login information can be passed as per http://gist.github.com/619432 .

Prints a list of all files stored on s3.

Restores the database with the data from s3. Sweet!!

Pings a site.