Remotely Updated Drupal CMS With Google G1 Cell Phone

For all the little quirks, and the features it doesn't have, I shouldn't complain too much, for I was able to update a Drupal CMS server from 6.11 to 6.12 over Google's T-Mobile G1 cell phone, an Android based OS.

Most of the credit needs to be given to the developers of the ConnectBot application, a secure shell terminal for logging into *nix based machines. Once logged into the machine remotely, I was able to update files in a manual fashion. For example, a few commands executed remotely...

wget http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/drupal-6.12.tar.gz
cd web
tar czvf ../drupalsite611.tgz *
mysqldump -u root -p dbname > ../drupalsitemysql611.sql
cd ..
tar xzvf drupal-6.12.tar.gz
cd drupal-6.12
rm robots.txt
rm sites/
rm .htaccess
tar czvvf ../drupal-mod-6.12.tgz *
cd ..
cd web
tar xzvf ../drupal-mod-6.12.tgz

I must re-emphasize that the G1 is for people who need to do remote admin work in addition to having the web and email handy to the fingers. It is not a push button device like the iPhone that makes you feel cool. ha! It's a function only type phone, with virgin territory for polish.