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Backing Up to Amazon S3
# Command Line to run from terminal
# Logs result to file s3_backup.log
# Command will run in the background
s3cmd sync -v /path/to/folder/ s3://s3-bucket/folder/ > s3_backup.log 2>&1 &
# Crontab command to sync folder to S3
# Command will run 1am every day and logs result to /root/s3_backup.log
0 1 * * * /usr/bin/s3cmd sync -rv /path/to/folder/ s3://s3-bucket/folder/ >> /root/s3_backup.log
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