Brett,

First off this is massively cool and I really appreciate your work here. I found you from Christina Warren's post on the same topic at http://www.christinawarren.com/2008/06/24/s3-ba...

For me, your script is more detailed and gives me more functionality to rotate backups, etc. which I find really useful.

I do have a question about this - namely, your script only backs up the filesystems for the domains and not the databases. I found your other script on the google code repository but I see that they email the database out to you and I'd really like the db backup to be sent offsite along with the files. Any thoughts on that?

Thanks!

Hello Brett,

Have you made any progress lately on the script? Can we say It is no more alpha but beta?

Very nice script! I used Christina Warren's script for a few weeks now, but I missed the rotation option.
Now I miss the mysqldump part... >.<

As far as I can see this version only handles the file backups and rotation, so I'm exited on your next version ;)

Hello George!

I will be releasing a more updated script soon that includes rotating MySQL backups as well. (actually you can download the MySQL script that I will be including now - http://sourceforge.net/projects/automysqlbackup/ )

It will basically be two scripts and the S3Sync that you upload to your /Data folder and edit three files. Once done you just setup the cron like 1-2 hours apart and you will be good to go!

I just want to let the one I currently have run a few days and make sure it does not delete the whole website or something. I would feel bad and you would probably be upset that the script did not work as advertised.

At least someone who continues the work done by Christina Warren... Thanks!

Does your code cope with the problem that occurs when your are trying to backup a big website (more that 2 gigs)? Christina's code failed to backup my sites (four sites, 2.5 gigs each one aprox.).

J.

At the moment it does not Cope with large sites. What I can do is break the script up into like 4 smaller scripts to be run 1 hour apart and that might solve the problem. I will have to think on it and let you know. The script is still VERY much alpha (I don't even know if it ran correctly on my site.) I am still doing more testing on it. I have most of the logic worked out on it (I think) and now it is just about getting to work right and getting the options in there and available to the users.

I will also be putting this out on Google code or somewhere and add documentation when I get some time.

Till then, I would not recommend it for large sites (over 100MB) until I can get it worked out for large sites.

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I will have to check that out! Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for looking into it!