Comments on: HOW TO: Backup Your Website to Amazon S3 (Automatically)

By: Ricky Synnot

Ricky Synnot — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 06:55:25 +0000

Bah! I’m getting the same 403 error and I just cant fix it! Im sure its the last step as I previously had heaps of problems connecting but have ironed those out.

By: Ricky Synnot

Ricky Synnot — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 06:59:13 +0000

Hi, When you say ‘For me it was the “PATH” varible.’ – what do you mean?

Im now at the problem described in your final words…

Im all zipped up and ready to go, and I get this error:

websites_backup_Feb_20_12_01-50.tar.gz (you can see the zip is ready to go)…

You didn’t set up your environment variables; see README.txt
s3sync.rb [options] version 1.2.6

I have done the YAML file exactly as you say, but the readme is very confusing. Please help!

Rick

By: Ricky Synnot

Ricky Synnot — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 06:33:54 +0000

Scrub that – the problem now is this: undefined local variable or method `u’ for main:Object (NameError)

(i think i fixed an earlier syntax error in the YML file).

By: Ricky Synnot

Ricky Synnot — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 06:09:01 +0000

Hey

Im getting this error right at the end where Im attempting to transfer up to s3. All of the MT stuff is OK, but the transfer is throwing this error. Ruby ver 1.8.5 could be the probem?

/s3sync/s3sync.rb:28:in `require’: /s3sync/s3config.rb:27: syntax error (SyntaxError)
from /s3sync/s3sync.rb:28

Thanks!

By: tpholland

tpholland — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 22:44:47 +0000

If you’re running Debian / Ubuntu and so forth, chances are you already have the certs installed in /etc/ssl/certs (and if not, apt-get install ca-certificates should do the trick). You can safely skip the last four lines of Step 2.

If this is the case, in step 3, you can do:
SSL_CERT_DIR=/etc/ssl/certs
instead of:
ssl_cert_dir: /s3sync/certs

By: matt mcinvale

matt mcinvale — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:13:47 +0000

thanks thanks! this worked for me on mediatemple as well.

By: HCLA

HCLA — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 19:10:02 +0000

Same problem here using Ruby 1.8.7, Ubuntu 9.04, certs installed, .yml ok.

Any pointers..?

By: Tej Kiran

Tej Kiran — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 06:18:39 +0000

Another option to set your S3 Bucket as Static Website, Upload/Download your data in bulk using Bucket Explorer. Supporting for all region end points.

By: NPhilly

NPhilly — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 17:13:26 +0000

i just spent ages writing the solution for your wordpress install to tell me my comment was a bit spammy and lost it all.. i cant be bothered now.. check the syntax of your YAML files which is the error. also these scripts SHOULD tell you that there is a problem with the YAML syntax instead of throwing all sorts of unrelated errors causing the user to think the software is buggy

By: NPhilly

NPhilly — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 16:50:14 +0000

I have the exact same error

./s3cmd.rb listbuckets
./s3config.rb:20: undefined method `each_pair’ for # (NoMethodError)
from ./s3config.rb:17:in `each’
from ./s3config.rb:17
from ./s3cmd.rb:23:in `require’
from ./s3cmd.rb:23

Solution??? I am also using ruby 1.8.5 it says i need 1.8.4 or greater, are there issues with 1.8.5???