Video Tutorial: Automate Media Temple (gs) backups with Amazon S3

• Posted: July 13, 2008
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• Author: Christina
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• Filed under: software, technology, video, web fun, wordpress/website
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• Tags: backup, computers, how-tos, media temple, s3, technology, tips, tutorials, videos

This is a video follow-up to my last post about S3 Backups on Media Temple's (gs)

This is a video follow-up to my last post about S3 Backups on Media Temple's (gs). The response I've received to that entry has been really, really positive and I'm thrilled that people are finding the tutorial and the script useful.

In the comments of that entry, Patrick was running into some problems -- it seemed like maybe he had missed a step. It occurred to me that it might be really beneficial to have the entire process documented in a screencast, because some people do better with a visual guide, and for anyone unfamiliar with their command line, seeing what you are supposed to do can be really, really helpful.

So I whipped up a video tutorial on Thursday. I wanted to have it posted earlier, but I wanted to stream it as a QuickTime file (for optimum quality/performance) and I had to tweak the settings of the QTSS server I'm using and then figure out the best way to embed the content. I was out all day yesterday and I didn't really get a chance to look seriously at embed options until this morning. The solution I ended up using is Shadowbox, a JavaScript AJAXy media player.

You need QuickTime or VLC or something to view the file. If you need it in another format, I can try to acquiesce

For the demo, I'm assuming you are using my
backup_server.sh script, but the steps are the same even if you are using your own.

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Enjoy! If you have any more questions, just leave them here and I'll try my best to answer them.

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