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Archive for the ‘ruby’ Category
Backing Up Your Data with Astrails-Safe
November 9th, 2009
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Astrails-safe is a ruby gem, so you can install it on your web server like so:
sudo gem install astrails-safe
Using Amazon S3 from the Command Line with s3sync
November 9th, 2009
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s3sync comes with two utilities: s3sync.rb, which can backup a directory to S3 rsync-style, and s3cmd.rb, which gives you a command-line interface to S3. We’re actually not going to use s3sync.rb to backup our files (in the next blog post I’ll show you how to use astrails-safe instead). However, we will be using the s3cmd.rb utility now in order to interact with S3 from the command line.
