[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #3459: Data Redundancy for WordPress

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#3459: Data Redundancy for WordPress
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 Reporter:  robertaccettura  |       Owner:  anonymous
     Type:  enhancement      |      Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:  2.2      
Component:  Administration   |     Version:           
 Severity:  normal           |    Keywords:  backup   
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 We all suck, and we all make mistakes.  One of the big advantages as
 hosted service like wordpress.com has is infrastructure.  Thanks to their
 millions of dollars they have worldclass datacenters that make Google
 jealous.  Many/most wordpress users host on a simple linux box, with
 little/no easy backup.  Or their provider will only restore if the data
 loss was the providers fault (otherwise it's a big fee).

 This ticket is to propose the idea of adding support for WordPress to
 backup to Amazon S3 via the backup plugin.  Implementation would look like
 this:

 - user enters their  AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY just like
 they enter their Akismet API key.

 - backup just like normal, but instead of downloading or saving to a
 directory, it goes to Amazon S3.

 - Could extend to cover the upload directory and wp-content in general
 (which if your upload directory is in there, would mean pretty much
 everything that matters).

 So for < $5 you can keep complete backups of your blog, including all
 settings, themes, uploads, comments, posts.  Fully automated er
 auttomated, er... whatever.

 Since most servers have much better bandwidth than users have, backups and
 restores would be lightning fast.  Could even save multiple backups so you
 have snapshots.

 You know you like this one.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3459>
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