How-to-Backup-files-from-Ubuntu-&-Debian-Server's-to-Amazon-s3.md

How to Backup files from Ubuntu/Debian Server's to Amazon s3

If we have several VPS and we need to backup the data's and database's to Amazon S3 we can Use a Command line tool to copy the files from VPS server's to Amazon s3.

Note : Here My Bucket name is server-backup

First we need to install the S3 tool package

Step 1:

Add the Key using

# sudo wget -O- -q http://s3tools.org/repo/deb-all/stable/s3tools.key | sudo apt-key add -

Step 2:

Add the Repository

# sudo wget http://s3tools.org/repo/deb-all/stable/s3tools.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/s3tools.list

Step 3:

Update the Repository and Install the Package

# sudo apt-get update && apt-get install s3cmd

Step 4:

Then Configure the tool to using our amazon s3 storage bucket

# s3cmd --configure

While asking for the

1. access secret
2. access secret key
3. Choose a encryption password & Confirm too
4. choose if you have http or https

Step 5:

Here we can Create a Bucket to upload out files

# s3cmd mb s3://server-backup

If we need to list the Created Directory use command

# s3cmd ls

Step 5:

Now we can upload a file there

# s3cmd put server-backup20.tar.gz s3://server-backup/

Step 6:

If we need to list the file which we have uploaded now Use command

# s3cmd ls s3://server-backup

Step 7:

If we need to Download it from S3 Bucket use command

# s3cmd get s3://server-backup/server-backup20.tar.gz

If we need to delete the file from S3 bucket use command del

# s3cmd del s3://server-backup/server-backup20.tar.gz

Thus we can copy a file from ubuntu or Debian Server's to S3 bucket