DB2S3 - A rails plugin to backup Mysql to Amazon S3

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You’re looking at a monthly spend of four cents So pony up you cheap bastard, and store your backups on S3

Usage:

# In config/environment.rb
config.gem "xaviershay-db2s3", :lib => "db2s3", :source => "http://gems.github.com"

# In Rakefile
require 'db2s3/tasks'

# In config/initializers/db2s3.rb
DB2S3::Config.instance_eval do
  S3 = {
    :access_key_id     => 'yourkey',
    :secret_access_key => 'yoursecretkey',
    :bucket            => 'yourapp-db-backup'
  }
end
# DB credentials are read from your rails environment

rake gems:install

# Add to your crontab or whatever
rake db2s3:backup:full
rake db2s3:backup:incremental # Unimplemented

# Handy tasks
rake db2s3:metrics         # Estimated costs
rake db2s3:backup:restore  # You should be testing this regularly

Caveats:

Currently does not clean up old back ups

Kudos:

http://github.com/pauldowman/blog_code_examples/tree/master/mysql_s3_backup