How I automated my backups to Amazon S3 using s3sync. Written by John Eberly on UPDATE: See my newer article for the way I currently backup to Amazon S3.
Jeremy Zawodny has an excellent article/discussion about the different tools currently available to take advantage of Amazon simple storage service (S3). After testing many tools available for S3 currently, I decided to use the ruby program s3sync to backup my data to S3. As I explained an earlier post, I wanted a simple low level tool to perform automatic backups S3. I decided to use s3sync to do the heavy lifting and use the jets3t Cockpit GUI to monitor my S3 account. SaraB - Schedule And Rotate Automatic Backups. DAR - Disk ARchive.