DB2S3 - A rails plugin to backup Mysql to Amazon S3
Dependencies:
gem install aws-s3
Usage:
./script/plugin install git://github.com/xaviershay/db2s3.git
# 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
# 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 only stores the latest backup
Kudos:
http://github.com/pauldowman/blog_code_examples/tree/master/mysql_s3_backup