Tag: Backup

Oct 10

Automatic Backup of MySQL Database to Amazon S3. Use of Object Expiration to Delete Old Backups

The importance of backing up a database needs no further demonstration. The following will create daily, weekly and monthly backups for our database and copy them to an Amazon S3 Bucket (MyBucketName) in MyBucketName/Daily, MyBucketName/Weekly and MyBucketName/Monthly folders respectively. To control the cost of our backup solution, we will set expiration to each file to …

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