Correct me if I'm wrong - but, doesn't the "prune" tool just remove all files stored in a bucket? If that is what it's doing (and I'm not just reading it wrong), wouldn't it be nice if "prune" removed only files not found in the original backed-up dir?

ie, on a schedule, you'd run "backup", then "prune". Otherwise, "prune" is more like "cleanup".
bp | Homepage | 09.05.06 - 9:11 pm | #

How big of a directory can I run backup on before I cause a severe problem for my server? Let's say I have nearly a million files in a directory... is this going to help me, or are the memory limits of php and the script timeout functions going to cause problems?
bob | 10.28.06 - 4:16 pm | #

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bianchi | Homepage | 12.15.06 - 6:01 pm | #

Hi, I found your tools while I was creating my own S3 backup program.
I didn't try your S3Backup program, but as I read your code I saw the same problem than in the first version of my program. If you try to backup a file with a space in its name, you will get an error (because your request will be something like:
"PUT /dir/file with space HTTP/1.1"
instead of:
"PUT /dir/file+with+space HTTP/1.1").
The solution is to use urlencode() on the directories and files names. But take care of urlencode each name part, not the full path (because you will get "%2Fdir%2Ffile+with+space").

I hope it could be usefull.

Cheers,
Amaury Bouchard | Homepage | 04.03.07 - 4:48 pm | #

Hi

good effort, I am making my own S3 Backup system using PHP I read your classes for ideas and wanted to suggest for future versions what I am going to do with my programme,

1 - i will prefer to tar the whole directory and then move it rather than moving all files and directories AS IS to Amazon servers

2 - i will also put an option to backup automatically the related database for sites etc and add them to the tar package

3 - store backups weekly but to prune / remove backups which are more than two weeks old to manage my space well on amazon.

anyway, good work!
Haroon Ahmad | Homepage | 09.10.07 - 2:23 am | #

I'm confused about prune, is it just deleting everything in a bucket? Or is it deleting whatever is not on the local server any more?
Scott | 12.23.07 - 1:05 pm | #

it will delete full bucket.
Haroon Ahmad | Homepage | 01.23.08 - 12:58 pm | #

Hi,

Thanks for the great class. I gave this a test and it worked great. However, the directory I tested was full of css files and for some reason it saves the as jpg file type? How come?

In the browser it reads test.css (JPEG Image)

any advice?
Bill | Homepage | 02.09.08 - 11:20 pm | #

I've been working on my own backup scripts, but I haven't been using PHP. I noticed that you have a Prune class which sounds interesting to me, I think that would be helpful to ensure that I don't store too much data on S3.

Would there be a possible reference for building a Prune function using regular shell scripts instead of PHP?

http://blog.datajelly.com/2008/0...-to- amazon.html
Dan | Homepage | 08.03.08 - 11:26 pm | #

Thanks for this! Just what I needed. I'm now successfully backing up my pictures from my photography portfolio site to S3. If I'm lucky I'll be able to tie this up with phpMyBackupPro so I can dump my MySQL database and send it along with them, and then all my backups will be very simple indeed...
Matt Gibson | Homepage | 04.21.09 - 8:49 am | #