sync-local-to-s3

Bash script to sync local folder to Amazon S3

Copyright: Christos Pontikis http://www.pontikis.net

License: MIT https://raw.github.com/pontikis/sync-local-to-s3/master/MIT_LICENSE

Release: 0.9.1 (13 Jul 2016)

View CHANGELOG https://github.com/pontikis/sync-local-to-s3/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

Github https://github.com/pontikis/sync-local-to-s3

Bitbucket https://bitbucket.org/pontikis/sync-local-to-s3

Documentation

Clone

git clone https://github.com/pontikis/sync-local-to-s3.git

or Download: https://github.com/pontikis/sync-local-to-s3/archive/master.zip

Update

cd /path/to/sync-local-to-s3
git fetch
git merge origin master

Do not change main script sync-local-to-s3.sh neither config/config.dist.sh.

Just copy config.dist.sh somewhere (with any name you like) and make the appropriate modifications. It is recommended to add your config file(s) in config folder (all files in config directory except config.dist.sh are ignored by git).

Execute

For security reasons limit permissions to Owner

chmod 700 sync-local-to-s3.sh

then run something like

sync-local-to-s3.sh /path/to/your/config

In case you want to close the terminal, run something like

nohup sync-local-to-s3.sh /path/to/your/config &

Detailed log file is created. Log file can be sent via email (see config.dist.sh).

Required:

• Amazon AWS account https://aws.amazon.com/
• s3cmd setup http://s3tools.org/s3cmd
• Optional: trickle bandwidth shaper http://linux.die.net/man/1/trickle