Backup To Amazon S3?

[brownswo]

Quick question for anybody that might have an answer...

I'd like to be able to automatically back up my websites' files and databases and have them sent to my Amazon S3 storage area (i.e. set up a daily / weekly / "whatever" cron job to back the stuff up, then transfer it to Amazon).

Is anybody doing anything like this, and if so, could you pass along details about how you do it? I'm just now starting to play around with Amazon S3 and it sounds like an inexpensive way to store another backup.

Thanks,
Tom

[AndrewT]

It is certainly possible. I know at least one of our customers is using a Python script for this purpose.

[james]

I have done this using S3Sync (http://www.s3sync.net/wiki). It's a ruby based script.