Comments on: Using Amazon S3 to backup Media Temple’s Grid (gs)

By: Tanner Hobin

Tanner Hobin — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 21:47:43 +0000

Thank you, thank you, thank you! So I tried to make things a little easier on myself by making the "list of website directories to backup" /domains and "the directory where all website domain directories reside" /home/XXXXX/users/.home and the resulting .tar.gz file only had folders in it for home>XXXXX>users. No domains backed-up. Simply put, I was hoping to skip having to list all domains and the need to update the script every time I add/remove a domain. Any idea how I might be able to do that? Again, thank you.

By: the Blog Butler

the Blog Butler — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 22:40:07 +0000

Thanks for writing this up Cristina, was a great help and got me off to a good start. I have everything working fine when I run it from an SSH session but when the cron kicks the job off it will back up the site but will NOT transfer it to my S3 bucket. It does it just fine when I run it manually but not from cron.

Anyone have any clue on this?

By: Andre Kreft

Andre Kreft — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:41:48 +0000

Hi Christina, love the script and has been working for a while now. Lately I got some strange error's I cant seem to fix.

Like: No such file or directory in my Cron Deamon emails and when I try to kick off my cron job through SSH I can't kick off ./server_backup.sh in my data folder. It keep saying: -bash: /backup_server.sh: No such file or directory

Anything changed on MT side? or am I missing something. Hope you can help.

By: Media Temple backups naar Amazon S3 met S3Sync

Media Temple backups naar Amazon S3 met S3Sync — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:54:31 +0000

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By: Jesse

Jesse — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:12:22 +0000

Thank you so much for spelling all this out for us! This was extremely helpful! I am using Amazon S3 now, it's kind of tricky to use but this helped me save much time

By: Karl L. Gechlik | AskTheAdmin.com

Karl L. Gechlik | AskTheAdmin.com — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:14:32 +0000

Thanks for your help. I rewrote the script to create custom filenames with the date in them. I then croned another script to remove files after 7 days keeping 7 backups. I could not get your MySql part to work so I cronned out MySql dumps and put them in the tar. Finally I reduced the file size with compression and filtering out specific file types I didnt need backed up. I will get it documented and up on http://www.askTheAdmin.com as soon as I can.

By: Christina Warren

Christina Warren — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:09:12 +0000

Clayton,
Yes -- a user was nice enough to put up a new script on github -- the link is in the comments (a few posts before yours) - I desperately need to update this blog post with that info -- thanks for the reminder!

By: Clayton

Clayton — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:07:43 +0000

This appears to be working, but I am getting an error message at the top of my Cron job notification email: "Got error: 1044: Access denied for user 'dbXXXXX'@'%' to database 'information_schema' when using LOCK TABLES" Anyone else get this?

By: Clayton

Clayton — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:06:34 +0000

Thanks for the tutorial, Christina. This post, along with your video, were a huge help for me.

By: irms

irms — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:16:48 +0000

This was awesome. Thanks!