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h1. Chef Backup
A cookbook for adding offsite backups to your webserver. Installs all the gems necessary. Requires a bit of pre-configuration before running the cookbook.
Assumes database and directory backup, with an s3sync to an amazon s3 bucket.
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You need to create the bucket on s3. (currently set to us-east-1 region)
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Copy amazon access keys to ~/.aws/secret_key and ~/.aws/access_key
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Database passwords
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Directories to sync.
You should be familiar with the “backup gem”:github.com/meskyanichi/backup
Note: This cookbook is in early stages so improvements and contributions are encouraged!
h2. Installation
I recommend “knife github cookbooks”:github.com/websterclay/knife-github-cookbooks for installing this cookbook into your chef repository.