We decided to do this as we have recently installed a new elastix server in the office which had limited disk space and wanted to keep offsite backups of recordings
s3cmd is a command line client for copying files to/from Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) and performing other related tasks, for instance creating and removing buckets, listing objects, etc.
Install s3cmd
wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/s3tools/files/s3cmd/1.5.2/s3cmd-1.5.2.tar.gz tar -xzvf s3cmd-1.1.0-beta3.tar.gz mkdir /usr/local/s3cmd/ cd s3cmd-1.1.0-beta3 cp -Rf * /usr/local/s3cmd/ cd /usr/local/s3cmd/ ./s3cmd --configure
Follow the prompts and enter your keys.
Test the installation
./s3cmd ls s3://yourbucket/
If the test works then the script below is a simple backup script to backup elastix monitor files and backups daily.
vi /etc/cron.daily/rec2s3c.sh
#!/bin/sh /usr/local/s3cmd/s3cmd --config=/some/where/.s3cfg sync /var/spool/asterisk/monitor s3://yourbucket /bin/rm -f /var/spool/asterisk/monitor/*.gsm /bin/rm -f /var/spool/asterisk/monitor/*.wav /usr/local/s3cmd/s3cmd --config=/some/where/.s3cfg ls s3://yourbucket/monitor/ > /var/log/s3dirlist.log /usr/local/s3cmd/s3cmd --config=/some/where/.s3cfg sync /var/www/backup s3://yourbucket /usr/local/s3cmd/s3cmd --config=/some/where/.s3cfg ls s3://yourbucket/backup/ >> /var/log/s3dirlist.log
enjoy :-)
For more details of what can be done with s3cmd see http://linux.die.net/man/1/s3cmd and http://aws.amazon.com/s3/