AWS S3 PHP SDK no longer viable - replace with restic???

[Thomas Scott]

Would using a docker container be an option?

https://jlelse.blog/dev/restic-docker

I run my own stuff in docker already, so adding this on was an easy bolt on.

> I've taken a look at restic and it appears I will need to create a PHP
> script that will tar files and data and run the restic command for
> posting the tarballs to my S3 bucket.  This script will be activated by
> Cron.

Have you thought about letting restic do that natively? it's capable
of effectively only grabbing the changes/diffs, as opposed to
archiving and then sending to S3.



Best Regards,
-Thomas Scott

Best Regards,
-Thomas Scott


On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 12:53 AM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
<plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>
> I sent an email to the list that did not appear to make it.
>
> ===============
> Subject : AWS S3 PHP SDK no longer viable.
>
> Body  :
>
> Hi,
>
> In 2017 I created a backup script using the AWS S3 PHP SDK that would
> extract, tar, and upload to S3.  Version 3 of the SDK does not work with
>   PHP version 8.x.  There's some code on GitHub that will extent the SDK
> to PHP version 8.03.... Yikes...
>
> I like using S3 for backups...
>
> A friend used to use PERL with S3, however he is saying it takes too
> much maintenance.
>
> The website I am backing up is a WordPress website on a VPS running
> Ubuntu with Plesk on top of that.
>
> This page : https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-php/releases/tag/3.235.7 says
> there is support for PHP 8.1 which is in security fix mode and will be
> end of life in what looks like about about 8 months.
>
> Any thoughts on this issue.
>
> Thanks!!
>
> Keith
>
> ===============
>
> I've been in contact with my friend who owns a hosting company and he
> says he has moved away from the AWS SDK and is now using restic.
>
> I've taken a look at restic and it appears I will need to create a PHP
> script that will tar files and data and run the restic command for
> posting the tarballs to my S3 bucket.  This script will be activated by
> Cron.
>
> Doing so does not seem to be very well documented.
>
> Any thoughts are very much appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Keith
>
>
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