Backups to Amazon S3 the Easy Way

31Mar09

I was looking for a simple solution to backup my newly constructed server to an off-site location in case something were to happen. I don’t mean I lost a file… more like catastrophic hardware failure, fire, water damage, physical damage, and even theft!. Local backups really are best, and I don’t plan on abandoning them any time soon, but in the case of the one in a million chance where something like this occurs, there’s a high likelihood that everything might be lost.

Enter Cenolan.com: How to: Incremental Daily Backups Using Aamazon S3 Duplicity. It really is pretty easy. Just one thing: besides installing Duplicity (also required a few other dependencies), I had to install Python-boto: yum install python-boto

You may also be interested in doing regular backups of your MySQL database (from HowToForge.com)

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