Hi Steve,
Backing up to a USB backup drive is very cool.
After looking at the code and it's setup I realized that I have it
configured on the vhost and is owned by the vhost user and it is
automated with the vhost user's cron. That answered my question.
Basically what I did was use the AWS S3 PHP SDK to create a PHP script
that tars the content on the file system and pulls the DB data and tars
it as well and then uploads those tar balls to a bucket in my S3
account.
AWS has done a good job of documenting the AWS S3 PHP SDK... they may
have provided too much documentation which means having to read and
understand a lot of stuff to get to the nugget one needs.
Keith
On 2023-12-20 23:39, Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss wrote:
Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss said on Tue, 19 Dec 2023 12:21:35 -0700
Hi,
I have been using the AWS S3 PHP SDK to backup my web content for
maybe 12 years. I'm revisiting it.
I'm thinking that it might be more secure to create a backup user for
just this process. The credentials would be stored in the backup
user's home directory, the script would be owned by the backup user,
and the cron would be that backup user's cron.
Am I on the right path and is there something else I should be looking
at?
Hi Keith,
I'm not quite sure what your preceding two paragraphs mean, but I have
a home-brew backup script that backs my box up to a USB3 interfaced
spinning rust drive. I have several such drives, some of which are in a
bank vault at any given time.
This system has been working well for me.
HTH,
SteveT
Steve Litt
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http://www.troubleshooters.com/rl21
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