AWS S3 Backups - User Cron - Should I create a backup User?

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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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