For those you you running on Media Temple’s popular grid server service (gs), I have found a handy little backup tool that can backup your web server to Amazon’s Amazon S3 web storage.
No matter what you’re running, static HTML sites, Drupal, WordPress, or any other flavor, the (gs) backup can handle it.
You can backup individual site files, ftp folders and any of your databases.
(gs) Backup
gsbackup is a web application (and shell script) written to make backups simple on the (gs) Grid-Service. The (gs) Grid-Service is (mt) Media Temple‘s popular web hosting platform This tool is not provided or officially supported by (mt) Media Temple, but was written by someone with extensive knowledge of the system.
gsbackup is open source and the code is also available at GitHub.
After following the instructions on the gsbackup website, you operate gsbackup from your browser.
It still has a few hiccups, but the author, Matthew Bell, is making updates, improvements and has some really great features (scheduling) on the radar.
Learn more, download and get it from the Git, on the gsbackup website.
(mt) Sara says
Thanks for sharing this! We have shared it previously as well, and will likely do so again soon once a couple of kinks do get worked out. We think it’s an awesome little tool.
For more information on backing up on the (gs) Grid-Service, we also recommend giving this a look:
http://kb.mediatemple.net/questions/780/%28gs%29+Backing+Up+Site+Content+#gs
Eric Dye says
Thanks, Sara!
Ben Giordano says
Great article, thanks for writing this and sharing with us. I stumbled upon (gs)backup and was wondering if you could give a bit of a review on how well it has worked for you up to this point. I have like 20-30 sites on my (gs) acct and need to keep them backed up, right now I’m (painfully) doing manual backups of both files and dbs. Hoping to switch over to something more automated but dont want to lose the integrity of the backup.
Eric Dye says
Give it a try and test ALL your backups to see if it’s working okay. I switched over to (dv) and never really got to dig into it much 😐