Backup you db to s3, brah.

s3backup.rake

namespace :backup do
  task :database do
    AWS::S3::Base.establish_connection!(
      :access_key_id     => '123',
      :secret_access_key => '456'
    )

    database = "pixie_production"
    file = 'dump.sql'
    `pg_dump #{database} -U postgres > #{file}`
    AWS::S3::S3Object.store("#{database}_#{Time.now.iso8601}", open(file), 'pixie.strd6.com')
  end
end