I've been using the opensource Brackup tool to backup some of my documents and photos to the cloud (Amazon S3 - which charges as little as $0.150 per GB per month).
This should work on many platforms:
Install Brackup (implemented in Perl) using CPAN:
$ sudo perl -MCPAN -e shellonce inside the CPAN shell:
cpan> install Net::Amazon::S3Now configure Brackup (".brackup.conf" on your home directory) by defining some file sources and an S3 account target:
cpan> install Brackup
[TARGET:s3_pers]
type = Amazon
aws_access_key_id = 1xxxxxNxxxxxFxx9xWx2
aws_secret_access_key = xxxxxxxYxRAoxuxDxrxxxxxxfxx4xxxxxxxxxdxx
keep_backups = 10
[SOURCE:documents]
path = /Users/ricardocabral/Documents
ignore = ^/books/
ignore = ^/Parallels/
ignore = ^eclipse
ignore = ^hdd
ignore = ^.svn
[SOURCE:pictures]
path = /Users/ricardocabral/Pictures
ignore = ^iPhoto
ignore = ^.svn
The commands I have on a cron job are:
brackup --from=documents --to=s3_pers -vTo restore a backup after a disaster, one can get all remote files describing "backup snapshots" with:
brackup --from=pictures --to=s3_pers -v
brackup-target s3_pers get_backups
Then choose the backup snapshot descriptor file corresponding to the point in time you want to restore and do:
brackup-restore --from=documents-1214139675.brackup --to=/target/dir --all
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