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+woxxy / MySQL-backup-to-Amazon-S3
+=================================
+
+Amazon S3 can be a ridiculously safe and cheap way to store your important data. Some of the most important data in the world is saved in... MySQL, and surely mine is quite important, so I needed such a script.
+
+If you have a 500mb database (that's 10 times larger than any small site), with the priciest plan, keeping 6 backups (two months, two weeks, two days) costs $0.42 a month ($0.14GB/month). With 99.999999999% durability and 99.99% availability. Uploads are free, downloads would happen only in case you actually need to retrieve the backup (which hopefully won't be needed, but first GB is free, and over that $0.12/GB).
+
+Even better: you get one free year up to 5GB storage and 15GB download. And, if you don't care about all the durability, later you can get the cheaper plan and spend $0.093GB/month.
+
+The cons: you need to give them your credit card number. If you're like me, Amazon already has it anyway.
+
+Another thing that is real nice: HTTPS connection and GPG encryption through s3cmd. Theorically it's safe enough.
+
+Setup
+-----
+1. Register for Amazon AWS (yes, it asks for credit card)
+2. Install s3cmd (following commands are for debian/ubuntu, but you can find how-to for other Linux distributions on [s3tools.org/repositories](http://s3tools.org/repositories))
+
+	wget -O- -q http://s3tools.org/repo/deb-all/stable/s3tools.key | sudo apt-key add -
+	sudo wget -O/etc/apt/sources.list.d/s3tools.list http://s3tools.org/repo/deb-all/stable/s3tools.list
+	sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install s3cmd
+
+3.Get your key and secret key at this [link](https://aws-portal.amazon.com/gp/aws/developer/account/index.html?ie=UTF8&action=access-key
+
+4. Configure s3cmd to work with your account
+
+	s3cmd --configure
+	
+5. Make a bucket
+
+	s3cmd mb s3://my-database-backups
+	
+6. Put the mysqltos3.sh file somewhere in your server, like `/home/youruser`
+7. Give the file 755 permissions `chown 755 /home/youruser/mysqltos3.sh` or via FTP
+8. Edit the mysqldump line in mysqltos3.sh with your MySQL root credentials
+
+Now we're set. You can use it manually:
+
+	#set a new daily backup, and store the previous day as "previous_day"
+	sh /home/youruser/mysqltos3.sh
+	
+	#set a new weekly backup, and store previous week as "previous_week"
+	/home/youruser/mysqltos3.sh week
+	
+	#set a new weekly backup, and store previous month as "previous_month"
+	/home/youruser/mysqltos3.sh month
+	
+But, we don't want to think about it until something breaks! So enter `crontab -e` and insert the following after editing the folders
+
+	# daily MySQL backup to S3 (not on first day of month or sundays)
+	0 3 2-31 * 1-6 sh /home/youruser/mysqltos3.sh day
+	# weekly MySQL backup to S3 (on sundays, but not the first day of the month)
+	0 3 2-31 * 0 sh /home/youruser/mysqltos3.sh week
+	# monthly MySQL backup to S3
+	0 3 1 * * sh /home/youruser/mysqltos3.sh month
+
+And you're set.
+
+
+Troubleshooting
+---------------
+
+None yet.

mysqltos3.sh

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+#!/bin/sh
+
+# Updates etc at: https://github.com/woxxy/MySQL-backup-to-Amazon-S3
+# Under a MIT license
+
+# dump all databases
+mysqldump --quick --user=youruser --password=yourpassword --all-databases > ~/all-databases.sql
+
+if [ $1 != month ]
+then
+	if [ $1 != week ]
+	then
+		PERIOD=day
+	else
+		PERIOD=week
+		
+	fi
+else
+	PERIOD=month
+fi
+
+# we want at least two backups, two months, two weeks, and two days
+s3cmd del --recursive s3://my-database-backups/previous_${PERIOD}/
+s3cmd mv --recursive s3://my-database-backups/${PERIOD}/ s3://FoOlDB/previous_${PERIOD}/
+
+# upload all databases
+s3cmd put -f ~/all-databases.sql s3://my-database-backups/${PERIOD}/
+
+# remove databases dump
+rm ~/all-databases.sql