[swift-users] Newbie Question

[Brent Royal-Gordon]

> I am trying to do something super simple using Swift - we are changing our infrastructure and the new environment requires me to work with Swift. Needless to say, I am a complete newbie and a bit lost on where to go first / start.
> 
> The scenario is this: we take a backup of our db every night and then need to move that backup to an offsite server for redundancy. So it’s a get get file, cp file, save file idea. Nothing more. 
> 
> Any thoughts on how to go about this or where to start looking for resources?

If you're looking at opening files and/or running external commands, you're going to need to use the C library (Darwin on Mac, Glibc on Linux) or, if you're on the Mac, Foundation. Which are you looking at here?

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Brent Royal-Gordon
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