After replying I am thinking I could create a backup user and use it as
a "global" backup. The scrip could be owned by the backup user with 700
permissions.
Interesting idea. I'm thinking this may be more secure.
Any feedback is much appreciated.
Keith
On 2023-12-21 06:39, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> Hi Steve,
>
> Backing up to a USB backup drive is very cool.
>
> After looking at the code and it's setup I realized that I have it
> configured on the vhost and is owned by the vhost user and it is
> automated with the vhost user's cron. That answered my question.
>
> Basically what I did was use the AWS S3 PHP SDK to create a PHP script
> that tars the content on the file system and pulls the DB data and tars
> it as well and then uploads those tar balls to a bucket in my S3
> account.
>
> AWS has done a good job of documenting the AWS S3 PHP SDK... they may
> have provided too much documentation which means having to read and
> understand a lot of stuff to get to the nugget one needs.
>
> Keith
>
>
> On 2023-12-20 23:39, Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>> Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss said on Tue, 19 Dec 2023 12:21:35 -0700
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have been using the AWS S3 PHP SDK to backup my web content for
>>> maybe 12 years. I'm revisiting it.
>>>
>>> I'm thinking that it might be more secure to create a backup user for
>>> just this process. The credentials would be stored in the backup
>>> user's home directory, the script would be owned by the backup user,
>>> and the cron would be that backup user's cron.
>>>
>>> Am I on the right path and is there something else I should be
>>> looking
>>> at?
>>
>> Hi Keith,
>>
>> I'm not quite sure what your preceding two paragraphs mean, but I have
>> a home-brew backup script that backs my box up to a USB3 interfaced
>> spinning rust drive. I have several such drives, some of which are in
>> a
>> bank vault at any given time.
>>
>> This system has been working well for me.
>>
>> HTH,
>>
>> SteveT
>>
>> Steve Litt
>>
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