I’m looking at the S3 service from amazon as a solution for backing up all data from our Plesk servers. We already have backups saved to each server using totalbackup from 4psa, and to another server. However, they are all in the same datacentre, and it wouldbe nice to have another layer of redundancy.
- sign up to S3
- get the accesskey and secretkey
- use a service like s3browse.com to look at your space and create a “bucket”
- use something like duplicity to backup the entire system
S3 uses the concept of buckets to refer to a collection of all the data that is backed up. Each bucket has a name: however, each name is unique across all users. So, the ‘testing’ bucket won’t be available for anybody else.
Installing duplicity on ubuntu and setting up the backup
sudo apt-get install duplicity python-boto
