WOW! A great new backup tool for MySQL using Amazon’s S3

For those of you that don’t know, Amazon’s S3 is a paid service for offsite storage that charges really competetive rates for data storage and transfer. I recently wrote a post about MySQL backups in general, and mysqldump specifically. Someone just took the solution I wrote about to a whole new level.

This link to Shanti Bradford’s blog YARB explains how the software works and gives examples for the very simple configuration. I am in love with this solution for smaller databases or funded projects with a few dollars to spare for a super clean offsite backup solution. Leave it to a Rails person to find the easiest and best solution to a problem that everyone has! Big ups Shanti!!