MAMP Database Dump Workflow

I’ve often talked about MAMP here and how you can use it to easily localhost your EE site while it is under development. For those of you on Macs and using MAMP, here’s a nice tool for you to try.

While browsing the MAMP.info website the other day, tucked down at the bottom of the page, I noticed a tool I had not seen before: MY MAMP DUMP. Despite the funny name, MY MAMP DUMP is a small set of Automator workflows that allow you to easily (it prompts you for the information it needs) import and export databases with MAMP.

The download comes with two workflows (one for export, one for import) and two application versions of those workflows. If you already use Automator to, well, automate some of your processes while migrating EE sites, this might come in handy.

As an aside: if you haven’t tried Automator yet, I think you should. It’s an easy way to make some of your mundane tasks faster and more efficient. Just one example is how I use it to automatically resize images for this website by dropping them in a folder on my desktop. I could further extend that by having Automator upload them to my s3 account. With shell script, applescript, Finder and tons of application support, there’s a lot you can do with it.