====== Backup to S3 ======

This is a small ruby script that you should symbolically link to from your cron.daily directory. It does the following:
  * Creates tarball of several data directories, including meta and attic
  * Uploads the tar file to your Amazon S3 account

The script creates backups for each day of the last week and also has monthly permanent backups.

To use this script, you must:
  * Open an [[http://aws.amazon.com/s3|Amazon S3]] account
  * Get the access keys and put them into the script at appropriate place
  * Have ruby and the [[http://amazon.rubyforge.org/|AWS::S3]] module

-- [[http://www.billkatz.com|bk]]

<code ruby>
#!/bin/env ruby

require 'rubygems'
require 'aws/s3'

# Create a tar file with the wiki data files.
wiki_data = '/path/to/wiki/data'
target_dirs = ['attic', 'media', 'meta', 'pages']
tar_dirs = ''
target_dirs.each do |dir| 
  tar_dirs += wiki_data + '/' + dir + ' '
end
weekday = Time.now.wday
backup_filename = "/path/to/backup/wiki-#{weekday}.tar"
`tar -cvf #{backup_filename} #{tar_dirs}`
`gzip #{backup_filename}`
backup_filename += '.gz'

# If we are on monthly anniversary, archive a permanent backup.
permanent_backup = nil
if Time.now.day == 1   # Hardwired but what the hey...
  timestamp = Time.now.strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
  permanent_backup = "wiki-#{timestamp}.tar.gz"
end

# Put the backup file in the S3 bucket under backups.

AWS::S3::Base.establish_connection!(
  :access_key_id         => '...put your access key here...',
  :secret_access_key     => '...put your secret access key here...'
)
bucket_name = '...put your bucket name for wiki backups here...'
begin
  AWS::S3::Bucket.find( bucket_name )
  AWS::S3::S3Object.store(
    File.basename(backup_filename),
    open(backup_filename),
    bucket_name
  )
  puts "#{backup_filename} was successfully backed up to Amazon S3"
  if permanent_backup
    AWS::S3::S3Object.store(
      permanent_backup,
      open(backup_filename),
      bucket_name
    )
    puts "#{permanent_backup} (monthly archive) was successfully backed up to Amazon S3"
  end

rescue
  puts "Unable to backup file to S3"
end

</code>