A simple bash script to take automated offsite backup of sites created with EasyEngine

1. First of all install and configure s3cmd on your server

apt-get install s3cmd
s3cmd --configure

2. Create backup.sh in your /root/backups directory:

vi ~/backups/backup.sh

• Paste this script in to this opend file: press i and then click with right mouse button
• Save and close this file: press ESC, now write wq, press ENTER

OR

Simply copy this script from GitHub

mkdir -p ~/backups/ && wget -O ~/backups/backup.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kamdhenu/EasyS3/master/backup.sh

3. Edit the downloaded backup.sh file and enter your S3 Bucket name

4. Make this script executable:

chmod +x ~/backups/backup.sh

5. If you want to exclude certain files/directories, create a file called "exclude.txt" inside the backups directory
6. Add pattern/path for all excluded files/directories in this file (one per line) and save it
7. Run this script to start backup immidiately

FINALLY

8. Set cron job to automate the backup:

/root/backups/backup.sh >/dev/null 2>&1

IMPORTANT

You may also want to setup an Object Expiration Policy for your s3 bucke to auto delete/archive old backup files from your bucket.