Created a dated version of a file and persist on S3.

dated-backup.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Created a dated version of a file and persist on S3.
#
# Usage:
#
# dated-backup.sh file-to-backup.txt s3://name-of-bucket/

FILE=$1
BUCKET=$2

BACKUP=$(dirname $FILE)/$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M)-$(basename $FILE).bz2

bzip2 -zc $FILE >$BACKUP

s3cmd put $BACKUP $BUCKET

rm $BACKUP