Backup from ReadyNAS Duo to Amazon S3 via s3rsync.com

Any luck yet, James? I'm highly interested in this.

Hi All,

I didn't see any great solutions available so I took the time to write a simple php script to push from my nas to amazon. It's not very smart, rather simplistic as I did it in an hour but it works and I have it backing up my pictures and video to amazon. Now I don't have a script to pull back the items from amazon s3 to the nas in case I need to but I suppose you could do that manually. Note that this solution is more developer focused, you can't simply set it up through frontView. That would be nice eventually but I don't have the time at the moment. Here's how you can get the script working:

1. Install PHP: http://www.readynas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=35880
2. Make sure you have ssh access, install it if you don't.
3. Get the source for the script: https://github.com/yellowandy/s3sync (you'll just need the s3.php file)
4. Install the amazon s3 php sdk via the pear channel.
5. Edit the config file and supply you're s3 authentication credentials
6. Setup you're crontab to look something like this:

0 3 * * 2 /root/s3sync/s3.php <bucketName> <directoryToMonitor>

HTH,

Andreas

Look good so far. Could you expand a little on the last part? I am not a developer but I think I can figure most of this out.

Thanks
Dan