Backup Your WordPress Blog to Amazon S3 using Ruby

I’ve been running this blog for months without a backup solution.  Mostly because I didn’t really care for any of the existing solutions which required me to do too many manual steps.  I wanted something completely hands-off (automatically run every night), secure and reliable (store the backups on Amazon’s S3).

So, enjoy wordpress-s3-backup.  Use it to backup your WordPress blog — both the database and the site.  It’s a Ruby Rake script and you’ll need the AWS-S3 gem.  Stick it in your crontab to run nightly and move on with your life.

Get it here.

Thursday, January 15th, 2009 Programming

1 Comment to Backup Your WordPress Blog to Amazon S3 using Ruby

  • Nnyan says:

    Hello,

    Just ran into your post, I’ve been looking for this type of solution. Only problem is I don’t know much about php let alone ruby. Could you publish step by step instructions on installing (and requirements) and using? Thank you!

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