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

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???

By: Chris Ediger

Chris Ediger — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 18:25:13 +0000

Neil – I was getting the same error. I got it to work by adding $ to BUCKET in the following line…

ruby /s3sync/s3sync.rb -r -v –ssl /s3sync/s3backup/ $BUCKET:

By: Steve Hurst

Steve Hurst — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 01:27:20 +0000

I’m getting this error when running the s3sync script:

./s3config.rb:20: undefined method `each_pair’ for # (NoMethodError)
from ./s3config.rb:17:in `each’
from ./s3config.rb:17
from /s3sync/s3sync.rb:28:in `require’
from /s3sync/s3sync.rb:28

Anyone have similar issues, or any clues? The server is running Ruby 1.8.5.

By: Steve Hurst

Steve Hurst — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 00:19:09 +0000

Nevermind, I guess I needed to CHMOD it 755.

By: Steve Hurst

Steve Hurst — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 00:17:44 +0000

I’m getting a “Permission denied” when I try to run my backupscript on an MT DV3.5 server.

[root@server s3sync]# ./backupscript
-bash: ./backupscript: Permission denied

Does anyone know why that might be?