I got sick of having to do backups manually and then manually saving them somewhere…then I wondered if it’d be possible to use my S3 service to back up my website? I mean, I’m already using it as a content distribution system but having a full backup of all files + databases would be nice too!

What You Need

You’ll need PHP, bash, CRON access and python to get this working. And given the bash/cron requirements, that also means it assumes you’re running a *nix based server. It’s probably possible to get the requirements down, but I just wanted to[…] read more