This looks pretty darned cool.
I spent a good bit of the evening last night surveying the current
landscape of what's possible with Amazon's EC2 service which, of
course, relies upon the S3 service as its persistent storage. It's
very interesting that they don't charge for data transferred between
your EC2 instances and your S3 buckets. The drawback is that you have
to explicitly tell your instances to store to S3 because an instance's
storage is only good for as long as the instance is up-and-running.
Of course, you could run at least two instances solely for the
database(s) to achieve replication but I just wouldn't feel so great
about letting it all hang out. I feel that the EC2 service is still
in its infancy and, one of these days, it'll be a great choice for us
Rails people...
For right now though, the patch you provided looks pretty cool ...
will definitely have to check it out.
-Chris
On Feb 19, 9:22 am, Jason Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Actually, there is!
>
> A few weeks ago I submitted a patch to Nate Murray's backup gem to
> provide S3 as a method for backups. A sample recipe (run on a cron
> job every night) looks like this:
>
> set :backup_path, "db_backups" # This is the name of the S3 bucket to
> use (your AWS access key is appened to it for namespace)
>
> set :aws_access, 'xxx' # These can also be set in ENV
> set :aws_secret, 'xxx'
>
> action(:content) do
> dump = c[:tmp_dir] + "/databases.sql"
> sh "mysqldump -u root -pxxx --all-databases > #{dump}"
> dump
> end
>
> action :deliver, :method => :s3
> action :rotate, :method => :via_s3
>
> set :son_promoted_on, :fri
> set :father_promoted_on, :last_fri_of_the_month
>
> set :sons_to_keep, 7
> set :fathers_to_keep, 5
> set :grandfathers_to_keep, 12
>
> On Feb 18, 2007, at 10:12 PM, Chris Grant wrote:
>
>
>
> > I'm not sure it'd be responsive enough to use as a database store but
> > it's definitely well-suited for database backups and such. I've been
> > watching the development of a couple S3-related OS X tools like S3
> > Backup (http://s3bk.com/) and S3 Browser (http://people.no-
> > distance.net/ol/software/s3/
> > ) for signs of what you're talking about. I know that the S3 Backup
> > guys are looking at the possibility of using S3 in a similar fashion
> > as U3 (http://www.u3.com/) -- storing applications on S3 and running
> > them from there. I just don't think it'll be fast enough for that
> > sort of thing but it would certainly be cool.
>
> > An automated tool for database backups would rock. I'm sure something
> > like this is on the horizon -- it's too cool not to be.
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