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

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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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