on ./s3sync.rb –delete –verbose “/backup/www” bucketname:mahalamobilewww -v

S3 command failed:
list_bucket max-keys 200 prefix mahalamobilewww/www delimiter /
With result 403 Forbidden
S3 ERROR: #
./s3sync.rb:290:in `+’: can’t convert nil into Array (TypeError)
from ./s3sync.rb:290:in `s3TreeRecurse’
from ./s3sync.rb:346:in `main’
from ./thread_generator.rb:79:in `call’
from ./thread_generator.rb:79:in `initialize’
from ./thread_generator.rb:76:in `new’
from ./thread_generator.rb:76:in `initialize’
from ./s3sync.rb:267:in `new’
from ./s3sync.rb:267:in `main’
from ./s3sync.rb:735

any ideas, the server is a centos server running on gogrids cloud infrastructure! pls assist

I'm on Mediatemple DV as well and think I followed your steps correctly, but I had to add another path to the s3config.rb file, otherwise the environment vars weren't found.

confpath = ["/s3sync/","./", "#{ENV['S3CONF']}”, “#{ENV['HOME']}/.s3conf”, “/etc/s3conf”]

Also if anyone is interested in backing up all databases. try this

DBNAME=ALLDB
DBPWD=yourpwd
DBUSER=yourusr
DBHOST=localhost

echo `date` “: Generating SQL Backup TAR…” >> /s3sync/s3backup/backup.log

# Generate a tar-file of the SQL database.
touch $DBNAME.backup$NOW.sql.gz
mysqldump -h $DBHOST –all-databases –skip-lock-tables -u $DBUSER -p$DBPWD | gzip -9 > $DBNAME.backup$NOW.sql.gz

Now I'm stuck with a 10gig file which won't copy to S3 so if anyone knows how I can break this up into smaller tar files and copy them across to dynicamically create s3 buckets, please let me know.

Thanks

Recently a client had his site hacked (local trojan nicked his FTP details) and the only backup the webhost had was already infected. Need to ensure that there are old copies on file still, as sometimes you only find out something is wrong a long time (2 weeks in my clients case) after the first attack.