Amazon Glacier Backup tools on your server | cPanel, Virtualmin, Directadmin, ...

Amazon Glacier is a cost-effective way to store your backup data.
Recently I set up a cPanel server for weekly database backups on glacier. Here are the steps:

First, install glacier-cmd:

yum install git python
cd /usr/src
wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/ez_setup.py -O - | python
# For cpanel:
ln -s /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/bin/git /usr/bin/git
#
git clone https://github.com/uskudnik/amazon-glacier-cmd-interface
cd amazon-glacier-cmd-interface
python setup.py install

Open ~/.glacier-cmd and enter your credential details:

[aws]
access_key=YOUR_ACCESS_KEY
secret_key=YOUR_SECRET_KEY

[glacier]
region=us-west-1
bookkeeping=false
bookkeeping-domain-name=backups
logfile=~/.glacier-cmd.log
loglevel=INFO
output=print




Now you can use the following simple script and cronjob to set a weekly backup:
/script/backup:

#!/bin/sh
NOW=$(date +"%d-%m-%Y")
rm -fr /home/backup-tmp
mkdir /home/backup-tmp
mysqldump -A > /home/backup-tmp/backup-all-db-$NOW.sql
gzip /home/backup-tmp/backup-all-db-$NOW.sql
glacier-cmd upload --description "$NOW Backup" VAULT_NAME /home/backup-tmp/backup-all-db-$NOW.sql.gz


Cronjob:

5 8 * * 6       /script/backup