To answer my own question, removing s3cmd that I installed from the
ubuntu repository and getting the latest version of s3tools from
sourceforge solved the problem.
The sync option (for rsync-like backups) does not support encryption:
http://s3tools.org/faq
however a simple solution seems to exist as outlined here:
http://sharp.hall.name/2008/12/encrypted-offsite-backup-with-encfs-amazon-s3-and-s3cmd/
Cheers,
Roger
Roger Searle wrote:
Hi, I have a successful S3 sync backup functioning which I can script
and run via cron, with a series of commands such as:
s3cmd sync ./ --delete-removed s3://MyBucketName/folder/
then cd to some other folder and repeat. However I have not been able
to successfully run "s3cmd --configure" to set up https and
encryption, here is what happens.
