Comments on: Simple Linux to Amazon S3 backup script

By: David Soergel

David Soergel — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 03:30:54 +0000

If you find yourself needing a more flexible solution, my S3 backup script may interest you: http://dev.davidsoergel.com/trac/s3napback/. It's very easy to use and handles backup rotation, incremental backups, compression, encryption, and MySQL and Subversion dumps. Enjoy!

By: Geo

Geo — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:57:00 +0000

Nice work. The script works like a charm. thanks very much.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 11:56:08 +0000

Hi Marc,

I use an incremental backup solution myself and have been meaning to do a write-up of it for *ages* but never seem to get around to it. Basically I use duplicity and I've written a little wrapper script that handles all the encryption, rotation, logging and other bits and bobs. I will try to put together a guide ASAP. Meanwhile check out the duplicity package.

By: Marc

Marc — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 00:09:20 +0000

Thanks for posting on this topic (Linux backups to S3). I'm looking for a solution that does incremental backups to S3. Have you found a solution for that, by chance? Any advice will be appreciated. Marc

By: DJ

DJ — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 03:02:35 +0000

I'm not much of a Linux expert, but I had recently tried to write my own backup script to S3. It seems my script was much shorter than yours, so now I'm wondering if I might have missed some important steps? Would any Linux experts care to review my thoughts and let me know if I'm missing anything?

http://blog.datajelly.com/2008/07/ubuntu-script-to-backup-data-to-amazon.html

By: Laran Evans

Laran Evans — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:33:31 +0000

Nice script. I love to see people using S3. It's extremely helpful to have people like yourself share their experience.

By: Dick Svensson

Dick Svensson — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 19:08:19 +0000

Txs, man i found your post usefull! Just wanted to let you know.