You can use the scripts in this directory to automatically back up a local directory to S3. It's aimed at backing up FoundryVTT worlds, but it will work for any relatively-small set of slowly-changing files.
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Follow Amazon's Batch upload files to the cloud instructions to:
- Create an S3 bucket (if you don't already have one)
- NOTE TO FOUNDRY VTT USERS: I strongly recommend that you do not use your Foundry data S3 bucket for backups. Foundry requires that it be publicly readable, which means anyone would be able to see your backup data. Do you really want your dumb chat log jokes (and maybe your license key, depending on what you back up) just hanging out there?
- Create an IAM user that can read/write the bucket (or grant an existing user read/write permissions)
- Install and configure the
awstool with that user's credentials
- Create an S3 bucket (if you don't already have one)
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Read the header comment of
backup-to-s3.shand ensure the prerequisites are met. -
Clone this repo (
s3-backup-cron) to your local system. For example:mkdir /tmp/s3backup cd /tmp/s3backup git clone [email protected]:dbort/s3-backup-cron.git cd s3-backup-cron
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Run
./install.shand answer the questions. -
Run
crontab -eand paste the recommended line into the cron file. See https://crontab.guru/ for help with changing when and how often it runs.
That should do it! You can watch the log file (defaults to a file under
~/var/log) to see if it succeeded or failed.
To try it without waiting all night, copy the command from the crontab line (skipping past the asterisks), paste into a bash shell, then look at the log file.
- Support multiple directories.
- Encrypt backups or at least give them zip passwords.
- Add options for picking archive formats other than zip.